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la  dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
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II 


IWENTT  THOUSAND  SOULS  PROFESSED  FAITH 
IN  CHRIST, 

KEN  THOUSAND  PROFESSED  SANCTIFIOATIOV 
ni  oonnoBW  inn  m  uaoii  «*  fn 

EEV.  JAMES  CAUGHEY. 

IBttjr  on  3iitniltottut8 

Bt    THOS.    0.   SUMMERS,    D.a 


EIOHMOND  AND  LOUISVILLB: 

PUBUSHBD  BT  JOHN  EARLY, 

VOB  *■■    MITBOSIfT    BPISOOPAb    OBUBOI,    lOUTI. 

1862. 


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INTRODUCTION. 


Thi  first  edition  of  this  woric  waa  isaned  »boat  a  year  ainoe, 
and  the  ninth  edition  is  now  in  pressing  demand.  This  is  suffi* 
oient  evidence  that,  whatever  rank  may  be  assigned  it  in  resp«ict 
to  its  literary  character,  it  most  possess  elements  which  endtle 
it  to  more  than  a  mattep-of-oourse  approval  or  a  flippant  and  snm- 
nury  denvnoiation.  As  the  copyright  of  die  work  has  been 
porohased  by  the  Bev.  Dr.  larly,  Book  Agent  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  and  the  present  edition  is  issued  with 
the  imprimcUur  of  the  Ghoreh,  theseby  securing  it  an  extended 
circulation,  it  may  not  be  improper  lb  call  attention  to  the  sub< 
jeot-matter  of  the  volume,  the  animvt  by  which  it  is  pervaded, 
and  the  peculiarities  of  its  style. 

Few  snbjeotB  ave  oi  greater  interest — to  the  Methodist  com 
munity,  at  laast>-than  revivals  of  religion.  We  allnda  to  those 
special  visitaticniB  of  meroy,  and  seasons  "  of  refreshing  from 
the  presence  of  the  L<ffd,"  in  which  Ohiistiana  axe  stirred  up  to 
greater  diligence  and  mnJ,  and  sinners  are  awakened  and  con- 
verted to  Qod.  Tbeae  outpourings  of  the  Spirit  axe  usually  pre- 
ceded by  fervent  Mid  importanate  prayer,  together  with  pulpit 
and  pastoaal  efforts  of  a  more  than  ordinarily  speoifie,  discriminat- 
ing, and  etfoeiit  character.  Their  necesnty  is  seen  in  thejaet, 
that  without  them,  fbncsdity  and  earthly-mindedneaa  wiU  OfMw 
spread  the  Church,  and  it  will  be  oonaeqvently  powerlaas  a»  an 
agent  for  the  eoaversion  of  the  world.  Their  neeeasity  argnea 
their  utility,  which,  moreover,  is  demonstnied  by  the  "ligna 
foUowiog ;"  for  if  we  maka  a  liberal  dednotion  from  the  oetennble 

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IT  '  INTRODUCTION. 

results  of  a  revival,  on  the  score  of  self-deception  and  liypocrisy, 
beyond  all  controversy,  a  vast  amount  of  good  is  effcoted  by 
every  such  visitation  of  mercy.  Fountains  of  religious  feeling 
are  opened  up  in  many  an  arid  heart,  the  indubitable  seal  of 
grace  is  aflSxed  to  many  a  doubting  soul,  and  the  season  of  re- 
freshing proves  the  punctum  lalieiit  of  spiritual  life  in  the  case 
of  many  a  sinner,  who,  so  far  as  we  can  discover,  would  otherwise 
still  remain  dead  in  trespasses  and  sins.  And  it  is  by  no  means 
certain,  as  some  affirm,  that  those  who  are  brought  into  the 
church  by  those  flood-tides  of  gracious  influence  are,  on  the 
whole,  less  stable  than  others.  There  are  mire  of  such  that  prove 
inconsistent  in  their  profession  and  practice,  because  the  number 
of  those  who  are  brought  into  the  church  by  other  methods  bear 
a  small  proportion  to  the  former.  But  we  are  not  prepared  to 
say,  that  the  per  centage  of  the  one  in  this  respect,  is  greater 
than  that  of  the  other.  From  a  somewhat  extended  induction 
of  facts,  we  are  disposed  to  assume  a  contrary  position.  By  far 
the  greatest  number  of  influential  Christians,  with  whom  it  is  our 
privilege  to  be  acquainted,  date  the  commencement  of  their  reli- 
gious course  from  some  occasion  of  extraordinary  awakening  and 
revival. 

These  views  are  strikingly  illustrated  and  corroborated  in  the 
present  volume ;  and  on  this  account  especially,  we  commend 
it  to  a  careful  and  candid  perusal.  We  can  determine  the  cha- 
racter and  claims  of  a  system  much  more  readily  and  satisfactorily 
by  observing  its  actual  working  and  developement,  than  by  dis- 
cussing its  abstract  principles.  And  we  feel  very  confident  that, 
whatever  doubts  may  be  entertained  in  regard  to  many  of  Mr. 
Caughey's  positions  and  movements,  no  one  can  fail  to  discover 
that  the  course  he  pursued  was  philosophically  adapted  to  pro- 
duce the  results  he  proposed.  He  determined,  by  God's  help, 
to  make  full  proof  of  his  ministry;  and  to  this  end  he  devoted 
all  his  time  and  talents,  and  on  this,  with  an  earnestness  amount- 
ing to  an  all-absorbing  passion,  he  concentrated  all  his  efforts 
and  attainments.    His  principles  and  plans  of  procedure,  as  set 


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INTBODUCTIOX. 


I  and  hypocrisy, 
i  is  effected  by 
'cligious  feeling 
iibituble  seal  of 
le  season  of  re- 
life  in  the  case 
would  otherwise 

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rought  into  the 
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use  the  number 
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lot  prepared  to 
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all  his  efforts 
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II 


forth  in  the  first  four  chapters  of  this  volume,  challenge  tho 
strictest  scrutiny,  and  cannot  be  noted,  by  those  who  labor  in 
tho  word  and  doctrine,  without  advantugo. 

Serious  exceptions  were  taken  to  the  spirit  of  this  work,  in  o^ 
tain  quarters,  when  the  first  edition  was  published.  The  author 
was  charged  witi.  egotism  amounting  to  self-glorification,  and 
enthusiasm  involving  dangerous  delusion.  If  this  charge  could 
be  substantiated,  it  were  well  to  suppress  the  publication ;  and 
wo  might  be  glad  to  have  it  in  our  power  to  restrict  its  pernicious 
influence.  But  it  is  not  so  easy  to  prove  this  charge  as  it  ia  to 
make  it.  That  Mr.  Gaughey  is  egotistic,  we  admit.  As  a  re- 
vivalist, he  had  less  to  do  with  the  objective  in  religion  than  with 
the  subjective — less  with  tho  abstract  than  with  the  concrete. 
He  was  perpetually  making  religion  a  personal  affair;  and  to  set 
it  forth  effectually  to  others,  he  found  it  expedient  to  recur  to  its 
operations  in  his  own  experience.  This  is  the  way  to  move  upon 
men,  especially  upon  the  masses  of  society,  who  are  less  affected 
with  systematic  dogma  and  close  argumentation  than  they  are 
with  the  living  embodiment  of  the  great  principles  recommended 
and  enforced  upon  their  attention.  This,  in  most  instances,  is 
the  secret  of  the  success  of  those  who  are  called  revivalists.  It 
was  so  with  Mr.  Wesley :  he  did  not  consider  it  in  bad  taste  to 
make  frequent  allusions  to  himself,  both  in  the  pulpit  and  press. 
Indeed,  in  conducting  the  Arminian  Magazine,  he  challenged 
the  right  to  decline  the  editorial  style — which  may  be  used  with 
a  feeling  of  regality,  as  well  as  one  of  modesty — and  invariably 
used  the  first  person  singular.  Our  most  devotional  hymns  are 
of  this  subjective  character — and  a  late  writer  of  the  High  Church 
school  has  objected  to  them  on  this  very  ground.  But  the 
Psalms  of  David  and  the  Epistles  of  St.  Paul  are  in  the  same 
condemnation;  and  it  is  a  less  misfortune  to  be  condemned  with 
them  than  approved  with  their  impugners.  It  has  been  well 
said:  « Egotism  is  a  word  which  has  obtained  a  bad  sense;  bat 
it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  it  has  a  good  sense;  and  tlutt,  in 
this  sense,  every  truly  great  man  is  an  egotist.    For  it  is  by  in< 


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Vl  INTRODUCTION. 

Umate  moral  and  critical  acquaintance  with  himaelf  that  he 
beoomci  powerM  over  the  thoughts  and  feelings  of  our  kind  in 
gonoral." 

•Speaking  of  Milton,  Coleridge  nervously  says:  "In  the  Para- 
dise Lost — indeed,  in  every  one  of  his  poems — it  is  Milton  him- 
eelf  whom  you  see — his  Satan,  his  Adam,  his  Raphael,  almost 
his  Eve,  are  all  John  Milton;  and  it  is  a  sense  of  this  intense 
egotism  that  gives  me  the  greatest  pleasure  in  reading  his  works. 
The  egotism  of  such  a  man  is  a  revelation  of  spirit."  That  a 
man  may  carry  his  egotism  beyond  the  bounds  of  good  taste  and 
sound  judgment,  will  not  be  disputed;  and  that  Mr.  Gaughey 
may  have  done  so  in  some  instances  may  be  admitted;  but  that 
he  has  done  so  with  any  motive  of  self-glorification,  seems  un- 
charitable to  assert  and  hard  to  credit,  in  view  of  the  simplicity 
and  godly  sinoerity  which  mark  all  his  movements. 

In  mgud  to  the  charge  of  enthusiasm — the  term  being  Ubed 
in  a  bad  sense — ^we  confess  the  artless  and  unstudied  manner  in 
which  he  speaks  of  his  mental  ezerciflos  and  reasons  of  action,  is 
well  enough  adapted  to  elicit  the  imputation.  He,  himself, 
admits  the  ambiguity  of  the  word  « revelation,"  which  occurred 
in  the  account  of  his  call  to  visit  the  British  Islands,  and  sug- 
gested the  BubstitutioB  of  "impression  or  persuasion,"  in  future 
editions,  which  has  accordingly  taken  place.  To  many  minds, 
revelation  is  associated  with  supernatural  voices,  oracular  dreams, 
angelic  appearances,  and  tortet  of  various  kinds — miraculous  in- 
terventions which  we  have  no  scriptural  authority  to  expect,  and 
on  which  it  wtm  a  delusion  to  rely.  It  must  be  confiessed  that 
a  captious  reader  of  Mr.  Gaughey's  Letters  might  discover  some 
grotind  to  suspeet  that  his  imagination  transported  him  at  times 
beyond  the  boondt  of  strict  sobriety.  But  we  most  allow  his 
own  ezphmation  of  the  fervid  language  whieh  he  oooasionally 
emjdoys;  and  as  he  solemnly  disclaims  all  pretension  to  nuraou' 
loni  endowments  and  risitations,  it  is  onoandid  to  £uten  upon 
him  the  ohargs  of  enthusiasm. 
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INTRODUCTION. 


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"In  the  Para- 
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lUphael,  almost 
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were  of  divine  origination.  And  who  will  affirm  they  were  not? 
Instead  of  being  a  miracle,  this  is  the  law  of  tbo  spiritual 
life.  It  is  the  established,  and,  we  will  add,  the  necessary  order 
of  God,  in  the  economy  of  proridence  and  grace.  It  is  implied 
in  the  doctrine  of  divine  inflv.cnce,  which  is  fundamental  in  the 
Christian  system.  How  is  a  sinner  awakened  and  convinced  of 
sin,  but  by  the  inward  working  of  the  Holy  Ghost  upon  his 
mind,  conscience,  and  heart  f  How  is  a  believer  assured  of  his 
acceptance  in  the  Beloved,  but  "by  the  inspiration,"  as  the  best 
divines,  including  many  of  the  Reformers,  express  it, — the  testi- 
mony of  the  Spirit  of  God,  witnessing  with  his  spirit  that  he  is 
now  a  child  of  God?  And  what  is  this  testimony  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  but  an  inward  imprenion  on  the  soul,  whereby  the  Spirit 
of  God  immediately  and  diractly  bears  witness  to  the  fact  in 
question?  It  is  so  defined  by  Mr.  Wesley,  in  perfect  accordance 
with  Scripture,  reason,  experience,  and  the  Houndest  theologians 
of  the  reformed  churches.  And  we  may  add,  that  an  inspira- 
tion, impression,  or  influence,  not  altogether  unlike  this,  is  ex- 
perienced by  every  Christian  minister  who  sincerely  responds  to 
the  interrogatory  of  the  ordinal:  "Do  you  trust  that  you  are 
inwardly  moved  by  the  Holy  Ghost  to  take  upon  you  the  office 
of  the  ministry?"  If  this  means  something  less  than  miraculous 
intervention;  which  we  admit  is  the  case,  it  must  be  acknow« 
lodged  it  means  something  more  than  a  bias  of  the  mind  induced 
by  the  ordinary  process  of  ratiocination — something  more  than 
what  a  man's  own  reason  is  competent  to  originate  independently 
of  divine  influence.  And  the  clergyman  who  ridicules  as  enthu- 
siasm  all  pretension  to  such  influence,  would  do  well  to  inquire 
if  he  might  not  have  committed  sacrilege  in  aasaming  an  office 
to  which  he  was  not  injrardly  moved  by  the  Holy  Ghost, — not  to 
say,  perjury,  in  solemnly  prolitssing  to  be  the  subject  of  an  in- 
fluence which  he  considers  temerity  to  cltdm. 

It  may  be  a  nice  point  to  determine  when  an  impretnon  is  of 
divine  origination.  It  may  require  much  prayer,  close  scrutiny 
of  motives,  «areful  consultation  of  the  inspired  records,  and 


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INTRODUCTION. 


uureBerved  conference  with  judicious  Christian  friends — all  thesa 
tests  may  be  had  in  requisition ;  but  then  the  interests  involved 
iustify  the  most  rigid  investigation,  and  no  one  incapable  of 
subjecting  himself  to  it  is  ever  the  subject  of  the  Spirit's  in- 
fluence. 

We  may  be  satisfied  of  the  supernatural  ori^n  of  our  impres- 
ricns,  if  they  are  strong,  permanent,  increasing  in  intenseness, 
when  thoroughly  scrutinized  and  made  the  subject  of  fervent 
prayer — when  they  are  not  contrary  to  the  Scriptures — when 
they  are  accompanied  with  outward  providences  of  a  correspond- 
ing complexion — and  when  they  tend  to  the  good  of  man  and 
the  glory  of  God.  And  we  may  be  permitted  to  remark,  in  this 
connection,  that  such  celestial  guidance  and  control  is  of  immense 
importance — it  is  postulated  by  the  precepts  and  exhortations  to 
prayer  and  trust  in  God,  and  secured  to  the  obedient  Christian 
by  the  promises  and  stipulations  of  the  covenant  of  grace.  Thus, 
among  a  thousand  passages  of  a  kindred  character,  we  read: 
« Trust  in  the  Lord  with  all  thy  heart;  and  lean  not  unto  thine 
own  understanding.  In  all  thy  ways  acknowledge  him,  and  he 
shall  direct  thy  paths."  "Be  careful  for  nothing ;  but  in  every 
thing  by  prayer  and  suj^tication,  with  thanksgiving,  let  your 
requests  be  made  known  unto  God."  And  there  can  be  no 
question,  that  were  this  more  fully  acted  upon  by  us,  we  should 
more  distinctly  recognize  the  divine  interpodtion  in  our  behalf, 
and  we  should  be  saved  from  a  thousand  anxieties  and  misgivings 
with  regard  to  our  plans  and  pursuits — ^the  pillar  of  cloud  would 
go  tefore  us  by  day,  and  the  pillar  of  fire  by  night,  to  guide  and 
guard  us  in  all  our  goings. 

•<  By  thine  unerring  Spirit  led, 

We  shall  not  in  the  desert  stray  I 
We  shall  not  ML  direction  need. 

Nor  miss  our  providential  way  I 
As  far  from  danger  as  from  fear, 
While  love,  almighty  love  is  near." 

.  Mr.  Caoghey  seems  to  have  reduced  these  prinoiplea  to  pno* 


IJtiJWiliMBIMllMMII  "Mifttfiil'il  lia»  •limui.imm 


rriends — all  these 
nteveste  iQTolved 
one  incapable  of 
F  the  Spirit's  in> 

^n  of  our  impres- 
ig  in  intenseness, 
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Scriptures — when 
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good  of  man  and 
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trol  is  of  immense 
d  exhortations  to 
bedieni  Christian 
)  of  grace.  Thus, 
iracter,  we  read: 
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dge  him,  and  ha 
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sgiving,  let  your 
there  can  be  no 
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INTRODUCTION. 


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iin'umin  mWirn'ii  tutiti  'r'lilri  j^i^iemiiw" 


lice;  and  in  this  respect,  only,  differed  from  the  generality  of 
professing  Christians.  Few  will  dispute  their  Scriptural  cha- 
racter;  but,  alas!  few  are  disposed  to  carry  them  out  in  all  their 
practical  details;  and  the  reason  for  this  delinquency,  as  com- 
monly  given,  is  the  fear  of  enthusiasm.  This  fear  it  well-nigh 
superseded  by  the  tendency  of  the  age,  which  is  in  the  opposite 
direction,  so  that  we  are  less  in  danger  of  enthusiasm  than  of 
almost  any  other  evil.  If  there  be  one  time  more  opportune 
than  another  for  the  publication  of  such  a  volume  as  «« Methodism 
in  Earnest,"  it  is  the  present  time;  and  we  accordingly  welcome 
its  appearance,  and  hope  that  the  transfer  of  the  copyright  to 
the  Southern  Methodist  Church  may  greatly  extend  its  circuUtion 
and  influence. 

In  regard  to  the  style  of  this  work,  it  is  only  necessary  to  say, 
it  is  somewhat  of  the  compotile  order.  The  subject-matter  was 
selected  and  arranged  from  the  Letters  of  Mr.  Caughey,  by  the 
Rev.  R.  W.  Allen,  and  edited  by  the  Rev.  D.  Wise.  As  there 
are  five  volumes  of  those  Letters,  embracing  a  great  variety  of 
subjects  besides  those  which  refer  to  Mr.  Caughey's  experience 
and  labors,  the  latter  had  to  be  eliminated  and  blended  together, 
before  a  consecutive  history  could  be  presented.  This  must  have 
been  a  work  of  no  small  difl5culty,  and  the  Preface  to  the  first 
edition  oontains  a  candid  acknowledgment  that  it  could  not  be 
done  so  as  to  secure  as  smooth  and  even  a  narrative  as  might  bo 
derired.  In  addition  to  this,  Mr,  Caughey's  Letters  do  not  ex- 
hibit a  homogeneous  style.  The  liberal  use  which  he  made  of 
his  common-place  book,  by  introducing  brilliant  sentences  from 
other  authors,  particularly  snatches  of  poetry — sometimes  appa- 
rently turning  aside  to  introduce  a  favorite  passage,  instead  of 
letting  it  fall  into  its  place,  as  it  were,  of  its  own  accord,  or  dis- 
pensing with  its  services — as  also  the  diversified  circumstances 
under  which  his  Letters  were  written— give  the  work  more 
uniqueness  than  uniformity.  But  this  is  a  matter  scarcely  worth 
noting.  Indeed,  we  are  not  sure  that  this  very  peculiarity, 
which  some  might  be  disposed  to  consider  a  flaw  in  the  perform^. 


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ano0,  might  be  viewed  in  a  totally  different  light  by  othera;  and 
no  one  oan  doubt  that  the  intereet  of  the  reader,  which  would 
flag  amid  faultleea  and  regular  periods,  contuning  nothing  but 
eloquent  pktitodes  and  beautiful  generalities,  may  be  sustained 
and  increased  by  the  frequent  recuirenoe  of  novel  statement, 
abrupt  transition,  startling  apostrophe,  and  exciting  epigram. 
Whatever  objeetions  may  be  made  to  "  Methodism  in  Earnest," 
we  hazard  little  in  saying  that  no  one  will  pronounce  it  a  duU 
book.  In  regard  to  this  matter,  we  have  no  misgivings  c(moem< 
ing  the  verdict  of  the  reader^whom  wa  have,  perhaps,  detained 
too  long  from  its  perusal.  W©  will  therefore  oonolude,  by  pray- 
ing most  idnceiely  that  it«  extmided  eirouhtion  may  result  in 
lasting  good  to  the  church,  and  redound  to  the  glory  of  its 
exalted  Head. 


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CONTENTS. 


■¥*' 


OHAPTEB  I. 

VBB  IMTMDVOTORT. 

Hnman  «zpaH<noM  —  Their  nsea  —  Sin  of  gllgfating  tbem — A  gnat  nligiotu 
feet— Sympathy  of  a  pious  mind  neo«B8ary  —  The  instrnment  —  Mr. 
Cavghey's  early  hiatoiy— Deicrlption  of  Mr.  Canghey— The  work  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  in  forming  his  reyivol  character, > 

OHAPTEB  II. 

TBB  Axonrmo. 
Christ  and  lils  apostles —  Panl  —  Lnther—  Wesley  —  Their  spiritnal  baptisms 
—  Mr.  Canghey's  anointing  —  Remarks  of  Dr.  Adam  Clarke — Their  'jiiia- 
anoe  <«  Mr.  Oangh^Va  mind — Tlie  solemn  resolatlona — The  duration  of  a 
deep  oonTietioa  — The  ionree  of  instmmental  snffloienoy— Reflection  on 
the  eflbot  of  Dr.  Olarke*!  thought — Pndse  to  Qod  —  The  >»innL^,2  of  the 
Spirit's  voik  in  preparing  tke  instmneot,  ••....       18 

OHAPTEB  III. 

'ABATIOX  AHtt  «■■  OOMtUM. 


Heoeadty  of  lympatliy  TMtween  God  and  h^  Instmmentt  —  The  dead  ohnreh 
—  The  preacher's  concern — A  series  of  meetmgs — A  defeat  —  Analysis  of 
its  causes — Influence  of  a  minister  on  his  brethren  —  The  great  lesson  — 
The  reeolution  — BeTival  sermons  prepared — The  common -place  book  — 
Good  adrfee- Oonseerttlon  of  the  sermon— Ordinary  senrioei— The  new 
station  —  PreparatlonB  for  a  spiritual  battle — OrOmwell's  ad^ce  to  hia  aol- 
&»n  —  Sonzeea  of  confldenoe  —  DiiBcuIties  foreseen  bat  not  ftered — The 
battle  begun—  A  nine  weeks'  conflict-  a  glorions  victoiy — Uses  ot  rio- 
tory  —  Treatment  of  oouTerts  —  Mr.  Oaughey'a  reflections  on  the  IMIure  of 
revital  operations  —  Every  preacher  ought  to  be  a  renrtvaMst-  The  mental 
eonflieti  of  preaoheni   •....••  ...IS 

CHAPTER  IV. 

TRB  TUT  or  wnVAh  raiKCIFLBS. 

6cd's  word  hu  Men  long  tested  —  Tm  basis  of  Mr.  Oaughey's  moTcmenta — 
The  tetter  to  a  Mend — The  protracted  meeting—The  spirit  of  the  laboreit 

xi 


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CONTENTS. 


0-  Character  of  the  people  -  Example  of  dead  ministerB  avoided  -  MeeHngt 
Idght  and  day  -  The  resUtance  -  The  stir  -  Inquiry  -  Increasing  congre- 
gations-Truth and  its  msjesty-Pure  motives- Expectations -FaithM 
preaching  -  Cahn  reliance  on  the  truth  -  Fnhiegs  of  Christ  declared  -  No 
time^ervers  in  the  way  of  success— A  touching  anecdote  —  Great  retist- 
anoe  among  sinners  -  Increased  boldness  in  the  church  -  Confidence  in  the 
truth  displayed  -  The  extremity—  Pompey's  saying-  The  minUter  and 
the  blacksmith-  A  nail  in  a  suro  place-  The  triumph-  Uncommon  et 
forts  necessary  — The  motto  of  the  church, ■• 

CHAPTER  V. 

TBB  OAUi  or  THX  SFIBIT. 

An  affecting  fact — Opinion  of  the  reader  -  Good  men  haVo  had  frith  In  dl 
Tine  impressions  -  Scriptural  authority-  Fruits  are  the  tesU  of  impree- 
•ions  —  Objections  met—  Feeble  instrumentalities  —  Intention  to  marry  — 
Mental  distress  -  A  struggle  -  Light  from  heaven  -  The  summons  to  » 
apeoial  work  -  Great  peace-  The  request-  Its  success  -  Serious  eonsid 
eration  —  Permanency  of  Mr.  Caughoy's  impressions  —  Providence  Fatn — 
Oareftd analysUrf mental  operationi— Faith ta  God,       .       .       .       « 

CHAPTER  VI. 
mar  fburs. 
Leaving  home  —  Passage  to  St.  John's  -  The  deserted  village  -  Sore  triato 
—  Counsete  of  a  Scotch  divine  —  An  old  tannery—  Victory—  A  chapel 
bnUt  —  Hospitality  —  Montreal  —  Remlnisceneea  —  Signs  of  revival  —  A 
discordant  church  -  Pawiage  to  Quebec  -  Reflections  on  a  poor  pUot  ud 
a  detention  —  Extract  —  Reflections  on  a  deceitfU  light^diip  —  Reception 
at  Qnebeo  -  Old  friend*  -  A  spiritual  battie  -  Satan  overUirown  -  Glo- 
rious revival  -  The  trifler  saved  -  A  miUtaiy  officer  afrwd  of  God's  sol- 
diei»  —  Aman  of  btisinese  saved— Reanlti— The  song  of  a  holy  woman,  H 

CHAPTER  VII. 

SZTXTAL  SOKnS  IK  U>WXB  CASAOA. 

Depwtare  from  Quebec —Attachment  of  flie  pe<^le— Review  of  labwa  ta 
Quebec— Inquest  on  a  disinterred  woman  —  A  dmnkaid's  deafli—  Facto 
—The  Vermont  legislator's  argument  — An  incident  at  a  temperance  leotur« 
—  St  Ann's—  A  scene  of  beauty  —An  accident—  A  drunken  oompanion— 
Another  acoidmt—  Three  Rivers  —  An  aged  minister — Anendote  of  Wea 
ley— A  hacardons  ride— Arrival  at  Montreal— The  power  of  God— A 
Vionse  of  mourning-  A  backslider's  reformation  -  The  Are  -  Peiaon  burned 
to  deatii- An  awful  event -The  backsUder's  end- St.  John's— Review 
of  tabors  in  Montreal— A  liberal  offer  decUned- Restitntion  preached— 
EffecU  — The  conscientious  bariwr- The  bank  note -The  clerk  and  tiia 
false  entry— Mr.  Oanghey  in  New  York  -Summary of  resulto- Five  hun- 
dred evidences  of  the  reality  of  his  impressions,  .       .       .       •       •       •• 


— ^^j^£htji'd,i^. 


.f^iimi'tiAAiif'tmi* 


CONTE^fTS. 


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avoided — Meeting! 
'Increasing  congre- 
ictations  —  Faithfol 
hrist  declared— No 
dote  — Great  retis^o 
— Confidence  in  th« 
-  The  minister  and 
)]i—  Unoommon  *f* 


aVk  bad  fidth  in  di 
the  tesU  of  imprea- 
ntention  to  many  — 
The  snmmons  to  ft 
M  —  Serious  oonsid 
.ProridencePtth— 
.       .       .       « 


village  — SoM  trials 
Victory— A  chapel 
iigns  of  revival  —  A 
I  on  a  poor  pilot  and 
ght^hip  —  Beception 
1  overUirown  —  Glo- 
r  aMd  of  God's  sol- 
5  of  a  holy  woman,  M 


■  Beview  of  labon  ta 
kaid's  death— Facta 
i  a  temperance  lectax* 
Imnken  oompanion  —• 
r— Anc^oteof  Wes 
i  power  ot  God- A 
B  flti — Peraon  boned 
-St  John's — Beview 
estitntion  preached— 
—  The  clerk  and  the 
of  results  — Five  hnn- 


OHAPTEB  VIII. 

BALWAZ,  AMD  XBB  VOTAOB  TBITBBB. 

Editorial  remarks— Ur.  Caugbey  at  Halifax— His  visit  to  Prcvidence  Path 

—  Strength  of  the  impression— The  trip  from  Whitehall  to  Bnrlington  — 
Arrival  at  Qnebeo— Conscieutions  scmples  — The  piofltable  detention— 
The  falls  of  Montmorency — The  Natural  steps  —  The  pl^ns  of  Abraham — 
Quebeo  defences — Anecdote  of  a  boy — Visit  to  the  Indians — A  Canadian 
thunder  storm  —  Beflections  —  Arrival  at  Halifax  —  Detention — The  voyage 
IVom  Qnebeo  to  Halifax  described  — The  gift  of  Christian  affection— The 
river  St.  Lawrence— The  gulf— A  wreck- The  drunken  soldiers  — Pas- 
sengers —  Anecdote  —  The  mirage — Prince  Edward's  Island — Picton—  A 
ride— Kind  attentions— A  home— The  lady's  apology— The  Theatrv 
Boyal  temperanee  meeting  described  —  Prince  William's  lodge— Buins 

—  The  peopto  of  God  in  Halifax- Temperance  meeting— Anecdote,      86 

OHAPTEB  IX. 

TBB  ATIiABTIO  VOTAOB. 

btrodnctory  Nmazks—  Beview  of  labors  in  Halifkx  —  A  bleak  momfaig- A 
storm- Its  uses-  Amnshig  description  of  life  on  shipboard  in  a  storm- 
Conversation  with  a  soepUo— The  sceptic  confounded— An  incident— A 
Sabbath  at  sea— The  sermon—  The  mstless  sea— Land— Arrival  at  Liv 
erpool,  . 109 

CHAPTEB   X. 

THB  DBBOUBlUaT. 

Editorial  remarks — Mr.  Cangfaey's  sense  of  loneliness  —  Trials — Truspar«n- 
eyof  his  character— Visits  Manchester- Dr.  Bunting's  sermon  —  Mr.  Mo- 
Lean— Beflections- Bobert  Newton— I-trodnction  to  the  conference- 
The  v(^yage  to  Dublin— Depression—  New  acquaintances  —  Invitation  to 
preadi — The  first  sermon  in  Dublin  —  Smprlse — Presence  of  the  Spirit  — 
Pour  weeks  in  DnbUn — Converts  —  Temptetions — Comforto  —  Abasements 

—  Ber.  T.  Waugfa — More  temptation  —  Thehr  narration  valuable — Beeiat- 
ance  to  Satan— Death  of  a  class4eader  -A  weeping  congregation— A  sea- 
son  ofpow«r—The  last  publio  labors  of  a  good  man  — Hopes  of  heaven  — 
The  room  where  Summerfield  was  converted — An  awful  time  —  A  remark- 
able coDverdon  in  answer  to  prayer— A  visit  to  Dublin  Castis—  O'Connen 
—A  crowd— Methodist  chapels  in  Dublin— A  watch-night- Farewell  ser 
mon— intense  excitement— BesulU  of  his  lab<«B  in  Dublin— Letter  of  B 
Oraig,  Esq.,  on  the  Dublin  revival, Ml 

OHAPTEB  XI. 

TBB  WBBBS  IB  UMBBrOB. 

Editorial  remariu- Journey  to  Limerick— First  success- A  letter  Aom: 
Dublin  containing  a  beantiftil  iUustration  of  divine  mercy — A  walk  on  tlM 
buks  of  the  Shanium— A  hurricane- A  feorftil  explosion— Beflections  > 


l?riHlll»l''fliriliir 


mfmrnmrnf^rn'mmt^m 


XIV 


CONTENTS. 


A  wfreiWijg  witton— A  hymn  — The  Bag  — Work  of  God  In  Limenck— 
Apovarful  conyersion  —  The  circular  —  Historical  sketch  of  Lfaneriok— 
Bnins  of  the  old  waU — A  spiritual  siege  —  An  ancient  cathedral  —  A  onri 
oiis  Inscription— An  old  Methodist  chapel  —  Extract  from  Wesley  —  Places 
of  worship  in  Limerick  —  Beaeotions  on  high  church  notions  —  Aspect  of 
the  city  —  The  people  of  Limerick — Visiting  from  house  to  house — Revl va' 
fhiiU  —  Leayea  Limerick  for  Cork — The  work  in  Lhneriok — Public  break- 
fltft  In  Limerick  —  A  testimonial  of  aflteotlon — The  watch — Mr.  Mathews's 
•ddrest  —  Acquaintances  In  Limerick,       ..••.•       }M 

CHAPTER  XII. 

TINT  TO  OOBK. 

Iditorial  remarks— Pnyer  for  the  city  — Opening  MrmoM— The  praying 
man  Umpted— The  chapel  In  Cork  described- A  touching  scene— The 
discharged  soldier— His  arrival  home  — The  vow  of  self-dedlcatieo— Ito 
glorious  consequences- The  leaders'  meeting— The  smaU  class- The  se 
oret  of  a  class-leader's  success  —  The  local  preacher  rebuked — How  to  keep 
penitent  etaners  firom  faUing  back  —  Six  reasons  for  giving  them  noiest— 
A  private  watch-night— l^e  revival  in  Cork  —  Extract  —  Description  of 
Ooik— Irish  hospitality  at  Hayfield— Communion  with  God  — Bevival— 
Public  buildings  in  Cork — Population — The  tomb  of  Boardman  —  Board 
man's  American  labors  —  His  death — Hta  epitaph — A  remarkable  incident 
In  hla  life— A  visit  to  Btamey  CasUe  — Blarney  Stone,  and  ito  legend  — 
The  revival  fai  Cock, *'" 

CHAPTER    XIII. 

■XPXRnCXCU  AHI>  WCIDXHTB  Uf  OOMt  ASD  aWDOH. 

fitate  of  the  work  in  Cork  —  Young  oonverto  —  A  mistake — Intwided  visit  t» 
Bandbn — Temperance  labors  in  Cork  —  Necessity  of  action  oa  temperanc* 

—  Must  not  be  made  a  hobby — Mr.  Caughey  is  visited  by  lather  Mathew 

—  Remarks  on  Mr.  Bl.  —  Commencement  of  revival  Ubon  in  Bandon— 
DiscouragemenU — Remarkable  Instance  of  restitution — A  still  moi*  strik- 
ing  case  —  Temptation  —  The  work  in  Bandon  —  Free  oommaniage  with  a 
friend— Mental  struffiles  —The  rage  of  devils  follows  fWthfU  minieteie  — 
Luther  to  Melancflion  — Calumny  and  detractiwi  —  Deceptive  Mendshlpe 

—  MisanUiropy — Profes»ional  friendship  —  A  leaaoa  hi  an  incident- Rela- 
tion of  Uving  near  to  God  and  cheerfulness  —  Tfouble  noedfU  —  Tempera- 
ment —  The  clock  —  Waiting  for  God  —  The  confflct  in  Bandon — Aooldeat 
anddetention  — Anxiety  — Close  of  his  labors  in  I»l»i»d»  *•* 

CHAPTER  Xir. 

MM.  OAUOHXT  TS  XXOIiAIID. 

UitoriBi  remarks — Departure  from  Cork  —  View  of  the  coast  of  Ireland  — 
The  Ocean  Storm,  a  poem-  The  captive  bird  -The  Incident  spUHtuaHwd 
—Lands  at  Llverpoel  —  Piwvtdential  cpenlngs- Mental  itrmgglea-  «» 


I 


MiiftfttMiMMWI 


mtMti 


""■■'  %l-'"' 


CONTENTS. 


XV 


GodinLlmenck— 
stch  of  Limerick  — 
cathedral  —  A  owi 
)ni  Wesley  —  Placet 
Dotions  —  Aspect  of 
etc  house  — Revival 
iok— Public  break- 
Bh  — Hr.  Mathewt't 
.        .        .       >48 


noDi— Tb0  vnyiog 
inching  tcane — The 
Belf-dedlc»ti«D— lU 
mail  ciaaa  —  The  se 
uked— Howtokeep 
iviDgthemiiowit— 
ict  — DeteriptioD  of 
th  God  — Bevival— 
Boardman  —  Board 
remarkable  iooident 
ie,and  its  legend  — 
.      .       .       Wl 


>  lUXDoir. 

;•— Intended  vliit  to 
kotion  on  temperano* 
Id  by  Father  Mathew 

Ukbon  in  Bandon— 
I— Attiltnor»itiik- 
I  commnirfag*  with  • 
I  IWthfU  ministen  — 
Deceptive  friendihipe 
aaoineidwt— Bela- 

needAd  —  Tempera- 
iBanden  — Aooldent 

n4»  *•* 


to  eoaet  of  Ireland  — 
incident  ipiritnaliied 
ntal  itmggle*-  Hi* 


^^ 


somniiMion  opened— Powerful  piityer  meeting — Special  meetings  begnn 
— Yonng  converts— Temptation  and  prayer—  A  stranger  and  his  dream— 
Friends  and  foes — The  deputation — Four  sinners  crying  for  mercy  — 
Hoaiaeness — The  watch-night — Benewal  of  the  covenant  —  Twelve  sinnen 
o(»iv«rted—Saooeu  and  tribulation— Humility,      ....      318 

CHAPTER    XV. 

ABaUMEXTC  WITH  THB  KKBMIKS  OF  RBVITAU. 

Objectiou  to  revival  efforts  stated  and  answered  —  Valuable  idea  of  a  da 
oeaMd  minister — Sinners  need  feeling,  not  light — Further  objections  con 
•idered— The  state  of  Christian  congregations  described— How  to  reach 
them— Objection  to  earnest  preaching  answered  —  The  archer  —  How  to 
aid  the  minister —  Objection  to  sharp  and  pointed  language  hi  the  pulpit 
considered  —  Terror  objected  to  —  The  earthquake  nights—  Judgment  and 
passions  mtut  be  both  reached — The  minister  is  the  best  judge  ot  the  peo- 
ple's state  —  The  wicked  physician  —  How  he  was  saved — The  aged  minis- 
ter and  the  yonng  sinner — Stem  and  soft  preaching — Poetical  extract — 
Feeling  must  be  appealed  to — The  irregular  apple-tree  —  Controversy  de- 
clined—  The  work  in  Liverpool — Prejudice  —  Opposition  to  revivals  nnl- 
Tcrsal— The  unconverted  lawyer — A  classical  story — The  old  aainfi 
prayer  and  the  sinner's  protest — Blasphemy  charged  on  revival  preaching 

—  Theology  studied  in  hell — The  duke  of  Saxony  and  the  praying  bishop 

—  The  trooper  and  the  minister— Feelings  of  a  lady,      .       .       .       sn 

OHAPTEB  XVI. 
iXQniBiaB,  AXBCDonM,  Ain>  CLomro  labobs  tx  utbbfool. 
Ob  deacribing  chaiaoter  —  Ahecdoto  —  Personalities  —  Anecdote  —  Vulgarity 
-Anecdote*  —  A  sinner's  mistake- The  merchant's  portrait  — A  lady's 
anger- A  ludicrous  Ikot — The  offended  sinner  urged  to  yield  to  God— A 
■earohlng  preacher — An  objection — Saying  of  Eupolis — God  warns  before 
he  strikes- PowerfU  appeals  —  Various  inquiries  answered— The  secret 
of  success- An  old  divine  quoted  —  Progress  of  the  work  in  Liverpool— 
The  poor  man  and  his  prayer — The  Welsh  Methodists  —  Display  of  divine 
power-  The  Welsh  minister's  prayer  —  Meetings  in  Brunswick  chapel  — 
Opinionf  of  the  revival  —  FaithfU  minister— Results  — Temperance  lee 
tares  in  Liverpool  —  Case  of  a  nervous  person — Lord  Nelson  and  the  worla 
-Confessions  of  a  worldling — Mr.  Wesley  on  nervousness— Amusementa 
— Exercise  —  Sin  of  idleness — Closing  scenes  in  Liverpool  —  Missionary 
meetings— Wesleyan  chapels  in  Liverpool— An  accomplished  organist— 
Betnlts  in  Liverpool— The  tea-meeting  —  Closing  addressee  —  Pleasant 
hemes, au 

CHAPTER   XVII. 

OBEAT  REVIVAL  IH  LEEDS. 

Anival  at  Leeds — Greetings  —  Meetings  in  Oxford  Street  chapel—  Result!;- 
Plant  — St  Peter's  chapel  — Great  tnocets-  The  Old  chapel  — Aneodoto 


<|. 


i*S 


■  III  Mill  ,11  iiuijini  'ji <.<n.  nf»tuninnmM-J^0D':': 


XVI 


CONTXNTS. 


by  Chiirlet  Wetley— B«miaiBomiewof  the  old  Leeds  chapel— Bowdmui 
knd  Pilmoor— Ml.  Asbnry's  labore  — Hl»  journal— The  band-meeting— 
Banotifying  power  —  Belatlon  of  pulpit  to  iianctifloation  —  Wesley  chapel  — 
Bev.  J.  Everett  — Soula  saved-  Opinion  of  a  person  who  denounced  the 
•hurch  —  Beauty  of  holinesa  —  Hope  —  The  work  hi  Leeda — Its  subjeoCa— 
Brunswick  chapel  —  Success —  Classification  of  the  subjects  of  the  work  — 
Besulte  in  Brunswick  chapel  —  Hospitality  —  Oxford  Place  chapel  —  Con- 

Tersions,       *. SW 

CHAPTER    XVIII. 

THK  OFFBRDBD  BBAREB. 

The  offended  hearer  —  The  artist  and  the  portrait — Various  insinuations  an- 
swered —  Painted  fire — The  review  —  Describing  character  —  Skill  needful 

—  A  threat— Anecdote  — The  gospel  mirror  —  Anecdote  —  The  western 
blacksmith — The  Irish  laborer  —  A  difference  —  Cautions  —  Extract — The 
wilful  philosopher  —  Hell  enough  in  this  life—  Hell  the  centre  of  gravity  to 
asinner  — The  wrath  of  man— Good  wishes  —  Chinese  painters— In  vita 
tions—  Sign  of  an  awakened  mind— Chance  — Apelles— Turning  to  Ood 

—  A  mistake  corrected  —  Saying  of  Origen — Skill  of  oa  ancient  general — 
Too  late— Anecdote Mt 

CHAPTER  XIX. 
bimbi.es.  abookd  lexos. 
visit  to  Cross  Hall  —  Reminiscences  —  Mrs.  Fletcher's  trials  of  fidth  —  Batley 
church — John  Nelson's  tomb — His  study — Sammy  Hicks's  home  —  Sam- 
my's  daughter—  The  old  olook — Sammy'a  anvil  and  shop — Fnrtbar  labors 
in  Leeds — Large  audiences  —  Vocal  power  —  The  people  of  Leeda  and  theie 
ministers  —  Great  resulto  —  St.  Peter's  chapel—  Large  fruit  —  The  poor- 
Noisy  meetings — Woodhouse  Moor  —  Farewell  sermons — Converts  —  Their 
classification- Unconverted  persons  in  the  church  — A  contnat-Bng^ 
travellers  In  America— Ituustioe- Why  unconverted  persons  are  in  a 
church— Influence  of  revivals  —  Ministerial  neglect  —  Perpetual  revival 
pouible  —  Methodism  is  revivalism  —  An  anti-revival  Methodist  a  phenon 
enon  —  Like  people  like  priest  —  Oflflcial  members  —  A  church  reminiscenoe 

—  Astonishing  revival- Extract— Entire  sanctification  ia  Leeds— Coa- 
eluding  remarks, '1* 

CHAPTER  XX. 

0IX>BI0U8  WORK  or  OOD  III  BULU 

Opening  efforts  i&  Hull— A  sore  trial— Humblings  of  soul  — Rev.  WUiiam 
lUlngworth— Encouragement  — Gehazi  and  his  master's  staff  —  The  Holy 
Spirit  —  Prayer  succeeded  by  power—  An  army  of  saved  souls  —  Kingston 
chapel—  Fears  —  A  watchword  —  A  victory—  Co-laborers—  Hull  west 
circuit  —  Offended  hearers  —  An  effectual  sermon  —  Literary  labors  —  Re- 
vivals hto  great  object— The  revival  spreads  — Larga  eongregationa— An 
ItwfU  BMsea—  A  psntecoet  —  Sinners  flyiag  befwe  Ood's  power  -Saoh 


i 


LwAijOwwaWiw— 


00NTBNT8. 


XTil 


chikpel— Boardmut 
he  band-meeting  — 
—  Wesley  chapel  — 
who  doDounced  the 
idi  — Itttnbjeori— 
jecta  of  the  work  — 
•lace  chapel  —  Con- 
.       .       .       S80 


)ui  inilnnationi  an- 
icter  —  SkiU  needfol 
lote  — The  western 
ni— Extract  — The 
centre  of  gravity  to 
e  painters — Invita 
II— TomiDgtoOod 
a  uoient  general— 


als  of  faith  — Batlejr 
joks'a  home  — Sam- 
lop — Fiirtb«r  labon 
le  of  Leeda  and  their 
fmlt  — Tkepoo^— 
— Converts— Their 
V  contrast— En(^ 
1  persons  are  in  a 
-Perpetual  revival 
tlethodist  a  phenom 
ohnreh  remioiscenoe 
on  la  Leeds— 'Coo- 
.      .       .       811 


wnl  — Rer.  WiHIam 
ir's  staff— The  Holy 
red  souls  —  Kingston 
iborers  —  Hull  west 
iterary  labors  —  Re- 
eongregatloDs  —  An 
Gtod's  powor  -  Sack 


manifestations  rare— Oases  of  oonverslon  in  Hall — The  aged  backslider 
and  bis  dream  —  An  affecting  letter  describing  the  remarkable  conversion 
of  an  infidel —  A  deeply  affecting  death  —  Another  letter  describing  a  hap- 
py death  —  Converts'  meeting  in  Hull  —  Sanctiflcation  —  Cases  of  restitation 
—  Hoktility  to  Mr.  C.'s  labors— Letter  from  Biahop  Heddiag  —  Great 
Thorr.ton  Street  chapel — The  tempted  old  man  —  English  homes — English 
boarftoet, 833 

CHAPTER  XXI. 

BCKNIS  AMD  IMOIDKim  Or  TBI  BCLL  KXVIVAL. 

f^ork  of  God  increases  in  Hull  —  Hull  newspapers  oppose  the  work  —  Impa 
dent  letters  —  Saying  of  a  judge  —  The  terror  of  sinners  —  Silent  prayer— 
A  spiritual  tempest  in  Great  Thornton  Street  chapel  —  An  affecting  letter— 
A  painful  but  triumphant  death — Sanctiflcation — The  secret  joy— Birth 
tnonth  —  Private  watch-night  —  Advance  of  the  revival  —  Four  hnndred  new 
converts '-  Temperance  lecture  —  The  conscience -stricken  Quaker—  Great 
excitement  —  Use  of  wine  needless  —  Moral  power  of  tee-totallsm — King- 
ston chapel — A  miyestio  scene  —  Closing  scones  in  Hnll^  Crowded  houses 
— Extent  of  the  revival — Twenty-three  hundred  converts  —  Roll  ministect 
—Hospitality  —  A  flying  visit  to  Leeds  —  Triumphant  death  of  an  old  (Viend 
—Remarkable  dream— False  reports  contradicted  —  A  delightful  Sabbath 
—Return  to  Hull—  A  spiritual  child  —  Visit  to  Welton  Vale  —  Letter  from 
Hnll, 867 

CHAPTER  XXII. 

mmJLTB  or  Divime  ou>bt  im  sHxrrntLD. 

Brief  visit  to  Huddersfleld  —  Sheffield  labors  begun  —  A  godly  noise  —  Cour- 
ageous leaden  —  Reaction  —  Return  of  energy — An  Ebeneser  indeed  — 
Report  of  the  revival  —  Approving  letter  fronk  Hull  —  Dr.  Adler  —  Gn.ndeur 
of  the  Sheffield  revival  —  Great  results  in  Carver  Street  chapel — Brunswiek 
chapel — A  backslider's  agony —  A  young  man  awakened  through  a  dream 
—Restitution  —  Confessions  —  Roman  Catholic  frightened — Crowded  tem- 
perance lecture — Marvellous  excitement — Extraordinary  effbsion  of  the 
Spirit—  The  poet  Montgomery  dines  with  Mr.  Caughey— Rain  in  answer 
to  prayer—  Change  of  residence  —  Trip  to  Norton—  Shirley  Honse  —  Sno- 
88« 


CHAPTER   XXIII. 

OOMOLCDIMO  mOIDKIITS  IM  BRXFTIBLD. 

Converts*  meeting  at  Brunswick  chapel  —  Wonderful  character  of  the  revival 
—  Norfolk  Street  chapel  —  Great  work  of  sanctiflcation  —  Revival  in  a  Sun- 
day school  —  Closing  labors  in  Sheffield —  Meeting  with  the  leader*  —  Per- 
manenoy  of  the  Sheffield  revival, -.       «       4M 


^^'■J~^^^^i7. 


mimmimmmun'.mmmnmimmii'Mnies^?^ 


XViii  CONTENTS. 

OHAPTEB  XXIV.j 
OUNU  OF  HB.  oAvaamt'B  labobs  i»  ksouM). 
Ut.  Owgliey'i  •eoond  tour  on  the  continent  -  Beturn  to  En^ud  -  Hndden- 
field  -  The  converted  dnmniy  —  Bepoee  -  York  reTlT»l  -  Vwloiw  re»lT«l« 
notioed  -  Birmlnghem  -Nottingham  -  Lincoln-  Sondertand  -  Q«teihe«J 
—  ScMborough-Varioui  places  TUlted-IntonUon  to  retnm  to  America 
—Betlew  of  hlilabori  In  England. **• 

OHAPTEB  XXV. 

TBI  TOTAOB  HOMB. 

1              Inoidente  of  the  yoyage-  Arrival  In  N.w  York  -  Vtolt  to  BUhop  Heddtof - 
I  BubMquent  laboM *" 


AFPKMDIX. 


M    ■>■'•- 


■irtBWWWfllWrtiWWiW* 


isoi-sasnsaiuaatmm 


i_ 


lUUID. 

EngUnd —  Haddem* 
1  — VarioiuWTlwUi 
lerlMd  — OatethMUt 
o  ntnrn  to  Amerioa 


oBbhopHwldlag  — 


CHAPTER  I. 


THB    INTRODDOTOBT. 


Tbb  Experiences  of  huouin  life,  are  (Jod's  teaolierg.  He 
employs  them  to  instmct  the  ignorant,  to  warn  the  miwary, 
to  guide  the  inquiring,  to  ^Ve  a  ^ible  and  practical  en- 
forcement to  the  precepts  of  revelation.  Hence  the  miseries 
of  the  vicious,  teach  the  fearful  nature  of  sin.  The  serenity 
and  comfort  of  a  true  Christian,  exhibit  the  reality  and  power 
of  faith  in  Christ.  The  achievements  of  individual  minds, 
also,  teach  us  what  vaat  powers  Ue  hid  in  the  human  soul : 
they  urge  the  observer  to  action.  Well  and  beautifully  is 
this  thought  expressed  in  Longfellow's  adnurable  "  Psalm  of 
Life:"— 

**  LiT88  of  great  men,  all  remind  us, 

Wa  oac  make  oar  liTes  »nblime ; 
And,  departing,  leave  behind  ns, 

Foot  print*  on  the  sanda  of  time. 

Foot-prints,  thai  perhaps  another, 

Sailing  o'er  lifis's  solemn  main, 
A  forlorn  and  shipwrecked  brother. 

Seeing,  shall  ta^e  heart  again." 

If  these  remarlu  are  truths,  then  he  who  turns  away  his 
mind  from  the  study  of  a  great  fad^  is  a  sinner.  Lessons 
may  be  written  upon  it,  mfluenoes  may  be  deposited  within 
it,  which,  if  studied  and  felt,  would  chutge  the  whole  current 
of  lus  being.    A  wilfiil  blindness  to  its  teachings,  may  prove 

9 


^'•f'-nfsrrr'Sfi-vt-'f"  ■"t"'"»*w*«MiaBII 


I 


'XI 


lO  THE  INTRODUCTORY. 

the  scaling  of  his  eyes  in  perpetual  darlmesa.  Every  groat 
fact,  therefore,  and  especially  every  great  roligioua  fict, 
should  be  studied  vrell  and  thoroughly  by  every  mau  who 
wishes  to  do  his  duty. 

It  wiU  be  admitted,  that  the  convkrsion  a"  twbkty 
THOUSAND  B0UL8  IN  ABOUT  8IXYBAB8,  chiefly  under  the  lUr 
bors  of  one  man,  is  a  great  religious  fact !  It  is  more  than 
great !  It  is  marvellous,  startling,  sublime  1  It  is  eminently 
suggestive,  too.  It  prompts  the  questions :  How  was  it  done  ? 
What  were  its  processes  ?  May  other  men  be  equally 
■Qccessful  ? 

Who  can  turn  aside  from  such  a  fact  as  tlus  ?  It  is  a 
sublimer  object  than  the  burning  bush,  whose  mystic,  uncon- 
sunung  fire  held  the  outlawed  shepherd  in  such  wrapt  atten- 
tion. That  was  God  in  an  unconscious  tree;  tMt  exhibits 
Him  worldng  «  nuraoles  of  love  "  through  a  conscious,  willing 
agent  I  Where  is  the  ChrivUom  heart  tiiat  can  refuse  to  be- 
hold, to  admire,  to  examine  it  ?  Where  is  the  minister  of 
Jesus  who  can  hear  it  mentioned,  and  be  unmoved  ?  Impos- 
uble !  If  the  spirit  of  Christ  be  in  us,  we  must  desire  to  trace 
the  workings  of  God's  hand  in  this  majestic  fact.  How  did 
God  prepare  the  instrument?  How  did  Providence 
prepare  the  way,  and  open  so  effectual  a  door  for  the  ap- 
pointed laborer  ?  And  what  encouragement  does  tiie  won- 
derful success  of  the  inr  r>  vncut  in  producmg  this  fact,  afford 
to  utiier  ministers  ?  Mr' t  v  i  ,?  for  like  r  ;torJes  tiirough 
their  own  kbors  ?    TJ  -^i  i-*««es  will  solve  these  vital 

and  interesting  questions. 

The  man  who  has  been  the  successful  laborer  in  the  con- 
veimon  of  tins  vast  multitude  of  souls,  is  tiie  Rev.  Jambs 
Cauqhbt,  a  native  of  Ireland.  He  came  to  tiiis  country  in 
lus  youth,  and  was  converted  to  God  some  nineteen  yeara 
nnce.    Two  years  after  his  convendon,  he  joined  the  Troy 


ii«niiml» 


mtf^'MiMi.;.: 


THK  INTnODUCTORT. 


u 


IS.    Every  great 

A  roUgioua  lUct^ 

every  mau  who 

[ON  f>"'  TWENTY 
)fly  under  the  lur 
It  is  more  than 
[  It  Is  eminently 
How  was  it  done  ? 
men  be   equally 

as  tlufl  ?  It  is  a 
fle  mysiao,  uncon- 
such  wrapt  atten* 
ree;  tkU  exhibits 
conscious,  willing 
;  can  refuse  to  be* 
8  the  minister  of 
imoved  ?  Impo»- 
ast  desire  to  trace 
c  fact.  How  did 
cQd  Providence 
door  for  the  ap- 
ent  does  the  won- 
ng  this  fact,  afford 
e  v'^to'^es  throuj^h 
U  solve  these  vital 

aborer  in  the  con- 
I  the  Rev.  James 
I  to  this  country  in 
ne  nineteen  years 
bejoined  the  Troy 


Annual  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and 
was  ordamed  a  Deacon  in  1834.  At  first  ho  was  not  distin- 
guished for  usefulness  above  many  of  his  brethren ;  but  sub- 
scquently  he  became  the  subject  of  some  very  extraordinary 
spiritual  exercises ;  which,  bebg  submitted  to  in  the  sim- 
pUcity  and  docility  of  a  child-like  spirit,  resulted  in  a  visit  of 
some  six  years  to  the  British  Islands.  It  was  whUe  on  this 
visit  that  the  magnificent  array  of  twenty  thousand  con- 
verts rose  up  around  him  to  hail  him  as  their  spiritual  father ; 
and  to  attest  the  genuineness  and  divinity  of  his  previous 
spiritual  exercises. 

Mr.  Caughey  is  a  self-educated  man.    He  has  been  an 
extensive  reader,  and  his  mmd  is  richly  stored  with  the 
best  thoughts  of  the  best  English  writers.     He  possesses 
a  remarkably  vivid  imagination,  which,  in  its  ardent  flights, 
sometimes,  though  not  often,  soars  into  the  suburbs  of  fanci- 
ful  regions.    HTis  perceptive  faculties  are  superior,  his  rea- 
soning  powers  good,  though  not  logical  in  the  highest  sense. 
His  memory  is  both  retentive  and  ready ;  hence  he  has  a 
large  treasury  of  ideas  at  command.    His  mind  possesses 
great  force ;  his  manner  is  earnest  ajid  persuasive ;  his  ges- 
ticulation natural.     His  voice  possesses  remarkable  compass ; 
if  not  richly  musical,  it  is  very  pleasant,  and  the  more  it  is' 
heard  the  more  it  charms.    His  discourses  bear  the  mark  of 
origuMlity.    It  is  true  they  often  flash  with  the  inteUectuaV 
jewels  of  great  writers,  but  these  are  fiuthfuUy  acknowl- 
edged; and  his  sermons,  both  in  thought  and  structure,  are 
manifestly  the  ofl&prings  of  his  own  mind. 

Such  is  the  man  whose  marvellous  movements  form  the 
topic  of  these  pages.  Nature  had  raised  him  abqve  medi- 
ocrity,  but  she  had  not  endowed  him  with  the  highest  ^of 
genius.  The  church  has  many  ministers  of  larger  powere, 
more  highly  cultivated,  betler  read  and  of  higher  inteUectual 


rifiMIIHiM 


>Wi*ttaa- 


"Amti 


iiililftiiuiu'i^wii^^lyjywcggy' 


12 


THE  INiaODUOTORT. 


rank,  but  whose  successes  in  God's  work  will  not  bear  com- 
parison with  those  of  Mr.  Caughey.  Whence,  then,  has  his 
superior  power  proceeded  ?  Why  has  he  won  such  victories  in 
the  church  of  God  ?  We  must  leave  this  question  unsolved, 
or  attribute  his  surprising  victories  to  the  Holy  Spirit,  who 
finds  his  instruments  among  the  herdmen  of  Tekoa,  or  at  the 
feet  of  Gamaliel,  as  his  sovereign  wisdom  may  decide.  To 
this  source  Mr.  Caughey  himself  ascribes  the  glory  of  hifl 
friitfulness.  We  do  the  same,  and  invite  the  reader  to  the 
pleasant  work  of  tracing  the  influence  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
in  fitting  Mr.  Caughey  for  the  work,  and  assisting  him  in  it« 
performance.  Surely  God  will  bless  this  book  to  every  read- 
er's soul;  for  its  aim  is  to  exhibit  the  glory  of  God  shining 
throu^the  instrumentaliiy  of  man— to  show  the  church  of 
God,  in  her  ministry  and  memberslup,  how  she  may  indeed 
8HINB  AS  THB  LIGHT  OF  THB  WOEID— tha  «piritual  FharM 
of  mankind  I 


>5 


: 


I 
I 
I 


I 


iiiiiiiiiiMiirWiiiii  I    >■ 


ill  not  bear  corn- 
ice, then,  has  his 
t  such  victories  in 
uestion  unsolved, 
[oly  Spirit,  who 

Tekoa,  or  at  the 
nay  decide.  To 
the  glory  of  hifl 
the  reader  to  the 

the  Holy  Spirit 
uisting  him  in  ita 
ok  to  every  read- 
J  of  God  shining 
ow  the  chorch  of 

she  may  indeed 
I  spiritual  Fharof 


I 


CHAPTER  II. 


THE    ANOINTINO. 


Christ  received  a  baptism  of  the  Spirit  on  the  banka  of 
the  Jordan,  before  entering  on  his  mission.  The  apostles  had 
their  Pentecost.  Paul  had  his  spiritual  refreshing  in  the 
house  of  Ananias.  Luther's  Pentecost  was  received  in  hia 
monastic  cell.  Mr.  Wesley  received  his  in  the  Moravian 
prayer  meeting;  and  m  some  place  or  other,  all  eminently 
useful  men  have  their  Pentecosts.  A  marked  spiritual  exercise 
precedes  their  successes ;  an  exercise  which  forms  an  epoch 
io  their  history. 

Mr.  Caughey  had  such  a  baptism  m  the  earlier  years  of 
his  ministry.  It  was  marked  by  tliis  feature :  his  theory  con- 
cermng  the  necessity  of  the  help  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in 
preaching,  became  a  eownction—tk  stem,  living  eonviation. 
His  account  of  this  epoch  is  characteristically  described  in 
one  of  his  letters.    He  says : 

From  the  hour  I  read  the  following  striking  remarks  of 
Dr.  Adam  Clarke,  a  few  months  previous  to  my  ordination,! 
have  never  varied  a  hwr-breadth  from  the  great  truth  they 
advocate.  I  can  only  quote  from  memory,  aa  the  page 
which  first  presented  them  to  my  eye  is  many  thousands  of 
miles  from  me,  and  I  cannot  turn  to  the  place  in  his  Works 
where  they  stand  recorded ;  but  they  diflFer  little  from  the 
following:  «  But  all  this  spiritual  and  rational  preaching  will 
2  18 


»  iihntttmmmv"^- 


\  ■'  !r3Ui!SUMKi<M>i^<MMMm 


•aUfty 


14 


TUB  ANOINTING. 


be  of  no  avail,  unless  another  means  of  God's  own  choosing 
be  superadded  to  give  it  an  efiFect— the  light  and  influence  of 
the  Holy  Spirit.  That  Spirit  of  life  and  fire  penetrates,  in 
a  moment,  the  sinner's  heart,  and  drags  out  to  the  view  of 
Iris  conscience  those  innumerable  crimes  wUch  lie  concealed 
there  under  successive  layers  of  deep  and  thick  darkness, 
when,  under  that  luminous  burning  agency,  he  is  compelled 
to  cry,  '  0-od  have  mercy  upon  me  a  sinner  !  *  '  Save,  Lord, 
or  I  jperithi*  *Meai  my  soul,  for  it  hath  sinned  against 
iheer' 

I  shall  have  eternal  cause  of  thankfulness  that  the  above 
Bentiments  ever  came  under  my  notice.  If  my  ministry  haa 
been  rendered  a  blessmg  to  many,  that  blessing  has  been 
vouchsafed  through  the  merits  of  Christ,  to  a  steady  recog- 
nition of 'the  necessity  of  the  influence  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 
On  the  evening  of  that  never-to-be-forgotten  day  in  which  I 
read  the  above,  I  took  up  my  pen,  m  secret,  before  God,  and 
gave  vent  to  the  emotions  of  my  deeply-impressed  heart,  m 
language  sometlung  like  the  following:  I  see,  I  feel  now  as 
I  have  never  done  before  upon  this  particular  subject.  From 
the  convictions  of  this  hour,  I  hope,  by  the  grace  of  God,  nev- 
er to  vary.    I  see,  I  feel, — 

Ist.  The  absolute  necessity  of  the  immediate  influence  of 
the  Holy  Ghost  to  impart  point,  power ^  efficacy,  and  success 
to  a  preached  gospel. 

2d.  The  albsolvte  necessity  of  praying  more  frequently, 
more  fervently,  more  perseveringly,  and  more  believingly,  for 
the  aid  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  my  ministry. 

8d.  That  my  labors  must  ho  powerless,  md  comfortless, 
and  valueless,  without  tJiis  aid;  a  chud  witTwut  water,  a 
tree  without  fruit,  dead  and  rootless;  a  mm^ uncertain, 
unctionleas,  and  meaningless ;  such  will  be  tiie  character  of  my 
niimstry.     It  is  the  Spirit  of  God  alone  which  imparts 


^SftMWWfc^*"-'*  '•  *-*■ 


mvfmmi$i/uidm 


ifMMirilMliMiiiMK 


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'ii4i 


THE  ANOINTING. 


15 


'S  own  choosing 
md  influence  of 
0  penetrates,  in 
to  the  view  of 
ih  lie  concealed 
thick  darkness, 
lie  is  compelled 
♦  Save,  Lord, 
>.  ainned  againtt 

i  that  the  ahove 
my  ministry  has 
sssing  has  heen 
a  steady  recog- 
he  Holy  Spirit. 
L  day  in  which  I 
before  God,  and 
ressed  heart,  in 
e,  I  feel  now  as 
subject.  From 
ace  of  God,  nev- 

liate  influence  of 
%ci/,  and  succesB 

nore  freqamHy, 
5  Idiemngly,  for 

and  oon^ortleas, 
nthout  water,  a 
sound  uncertain, 
>  character  of  my 
wHch  imparts 


fiignificancy  and  power  to  the  word  preached,  without  wliich, 
as  one  has  expressed  it,  "aU  the  threatenings  of  the  Bible 
will  be  no  more  than  thunder  to  the  deaf,  or  lightning  to  the 
bhnd.      A  seal  requires  weight,  a  hand  upon  it,  in  order  to 
an  unpression.    The  soul  of  the  penitent  sinner  is  the  wax ; 
gospel  truth  is  the  seal ;  but,  without  the  Ahnighty  hand  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  that  seal  is  powerless.    A  bullet  demands 
Its  powder,  without  which  it  is  as  harmless  as  any  other  body. 
Ihe  careless  sinner  is  the  mark;  truth  is  the  baU  that  must 
pierce  hun;  but  it  cannot  reach,  much  less  penetrate  hhn 
separate  from  this  mfluence  from  heaven.    In  apostolic  times, 
they  preached  the  gospel  with  th:  Holy  Ghost  sent  down 
from  heaven.   1  Peter,  i.  12.  In  our  day  we  need  an  energy 
trora  no  lower  source,  to  overturn  the  wickedness  of  the  vile 
and  profane,  and  to  counteract  the  formaUty  and  worldliness 
which  are  every  where  visible. 

4th.  I  am  now  fully  persuaded,  that  m  proportion  as  the 
fcpmt  of  God  shall  condescend  to  second  my  efforts  in  the 
gospel  message,  I  shaU  be  successful;  ^or  need  I  expect 
any  success  beyond.  No  man  has  ever  been  signaJIy  useful 
m  wmnmg  souls  to  Christ,  without  the  help  of  the  Spirit. 
With  it,  the  humblest  talent  may  astonish  earth  and  heU 
by  gathering  into  the  path  of  Ufe  thousands  for  the  skies- 
while  without  it,  the  finest,  the  most  splendid  talents  remain 
comparatively  useless. 

5th.  The  entire  glory  of  aU  my  success  shaU  henceforth 
be  given  to  the  Holy  Spirit.  By  this  I  shaU  conscientiously 
abide,  as  by  any  other  principle  of  our  holy  religion.  It  is 
written:  «  They  that  honor  me,  I  will  honor."  To  this 
may  be  added,  that  rigldeous,  inalienable,  and  unchangin« 
determination  of  Jehovah :  « Jl/y  glory  I  will  not  giveU, 
another." 

These  tnily  scriptural  purposes  were  graven  on  Mr. 


il 


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16 


THE  ANOINTING. 


Caughey's  heart  as  with  the  finger  of  God.  The  conviction  of 
dependence  became  henceforth  mterwoven  with  his  thoughts 
and  feelings.  Several  years  after,  when  he  was  sailing  on 
the  fuU  tide  of  glorious  success,  ho  exclaimed,  speaking  of 
liimsclf  as  an  ixistrument : 

Amazing  goodness,  that  it  should  bo  so  owned  of  God ! 
I  know  the  reason !  It  is  because  there  ia  a  distinct  under 
standing  between  my  poor  soul  and  Heaven,  that  no  portion 
of  the  glory  of  such  a  work  is  to  be  appropriated  hy  me,  either 
to  myself  or  others ;  that  I  am  to  feel  as  deeply  humbled 
before  God  when  thousands  are  converted  under  my  ministry, 
a£  when  only  one  sinner  has  been  converted.  He  knows  I 
would  rather  die  than  vary,  for  a  moment,  irom  fint  prind 
plea ;  I  mean  those  views  of  the  necessity  of  the  Holy 
Spirit,  which  I  noted  down  as  the  convictions  of  my  heart, 
after  reading  that  sentiment  of  Dr.  Clarke.  That  eounent 
servant  of  God  Uttle  thought,  that  this  passage,  of  all  the 
multitudinoua  writings  which  emanated  from  his  pen,  should 
be  rendered  such  a  blessing.  So  true  is  that  stirring  saying 
of  holy  writ :  "  In  the  morni/ig  sow  thy  $eed,  and  in  the 
evening  tcithhold  not  thine  ?iand;  for  thou  knowest  not 
whetJier  shall  prosper,  cither  this  or  that,  or  whether  they 
loth  shall  be  alike  good."  He  little  imaged,  when  pen- 
ning those  words,  that  they  should  be  wafted  across  the  At- 
lantic ocean,  and  fall  like  heaven's  own  fire  upon  the  imder- 
standbg  and  heart  of  a  young  and  ardent  spirit  at  the  foot 
of  the  Green  Mountains,  in  North  America;  that,  at  an 
important  and  perilous  period  of  a  youthful  ministry,  these 
words  of  light,  life,  and  fire,  should  arrive,  should  interweave 
themselves  with  the  whole  texture  of  his  "thinkings,"  be- 
come one  with  his  very  being,  and  the  secret  spring  of  his 
motions;  motions  wliich,  though  somewhat  eccentric  in  the 
estimation  of  some,  have  resulted  in  the  conversion  of  many 


\ 


"'^^ 


Mmiil 


'^ai^'aijijj'ij'; 


he  conviction  of 

th  his  thoughts 

was  saiUng  on 

d,  speaking  of 

owned  of  God ! 
distmct  under 
that  no  portion 
^d  by  me,  either 
deeply  humbled 
er  my  ministry, 
.  He  knows  I 
rom  first  princi, 
iy  of  the  Holy 
13  of  my  heart, 
That  eminent 
lage,  of  all  the 
his  pen,  shonld 
;  stirring  saying 
'.ed,  and  in  the 
ou  hnowest  not 
or  whether  they 
Qcd,  when  pen- 
i  across  the  At- 
upon  the  under- 
ipirit  at  the  foot 
:a;  that,  at  an 
[  ministry,  ihe»e 
ould  interweave 
' thinkings"  be- 
et spring  of  his 
eccentric  in  the 
version  of  many 


THE  ANOINTING. 


17 


thousands  of  sinners  to  God.  And  then,  that  this  youth, 
having  sprung  into  manhood,  should  cross  the  "  raging  seas," 
in  the  noon  of  his  usefulness,  and  pay  back,  to  Ireland  first, 
and  then  to  England,  a  sort  of  interest  for  the  use  of  that 
invaluable  capital  transferred  to  the  American  shores ;  and 
all  to  the  glory  of  God  the  Father,  through  Jesus  Christ,  by 
the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  Hallelujah !  "  Great  and 
marvellous  are  thy  works,  Lord  God  Almighty :  just  and  true 
are  thy  ways,  thou  king  of  saints.  Who  shall  not  fear 
thee,  0  Lord,  and  glorify  thy  name?  for  tJwu  only  art 
holy:  for  all  nations  shall  come  and  worship  before  thee, 
for  thy  judgments  are  made  manifest."  Rev.  xv.  3,  4. 

The  experience  described  in  this  chapter,  may  be  consid 
ered  as  the  be^nning  of  the  Spirit's  work  in  preparing  Mr. 
Caughey  to  be  a  apeoid  instrument  of  salvation  to  tho* 
sands.  He  nught  have  resisted  that  anointing.  He  might 
have  rested  satisfied  with  a  sound  theory,  instead  of  steepmg 
his  soul  in  the  truth,  until  it  bo  filled  him  that  he  learned 
as  by  instinct  to  lay  all  the  glory  of  his  labors  at  the  foot- 
stool of  the  eternal  God.  The  next  chapter  will  show  the 
further  work  of  the  Spirit  on  his  heart. 


m 


i 


CHAPTER  III. 


I. 


THE   PREPARATION    AND  THE    CONFLICT. 

The  heart  in  which  God  works,  must  sympathise  with  the 
divine  mmd  with  all  its  emotions,  ener^es  and  powers.  It 
must  do  for  itself  all  that  human  strength  may  do ;  for  God 
never  does  that  even  for  his  most  favored  instruments,  which 
they  can  do  for  themselves.  The  followuig  letter  to  one  of 
his  friends,  contMns  a  simple  and  touching  account  of  the 
manner  in  which  Mr.  Caughey  labored  to  make  himself  a 
•'  Workman  that  needeth  not  to  be  ashamed,"  and  will  forci- 
bly illustrate  these  remarks. 

My  dear  Brother:— I  waa  once  m  the  very  position 
you  describe.  The  church  over  which  God  had  placed  me, 
had  long  been  unvisited  by  an  extensive  revival.  My  soul 
became  more  deeply  concerned  than  usual  for  the  conversion 
of  sinners ;  and  I  was  led  to  pray  most  earnestly  for  a  re. 
vival.  I  began  a  series  of  meetings,  in  the  month  of  De- 
cember,  first  in  one  private  house,  and  then  in  another.  I 
preached  every  night,  and  held  a  prayer-meeting  afterwards ; 
but  we  never  got  the  matter  fairly  before  the  public ;  only  a 
few  attended,  and  the  special  effort  was  a  complete  failure. 
The  meetings  dwindled  down  to  nothing,  and  we  gave  them 
up  with  as  good  a  grace  as  we  could,  and  retiimed  to  tho  ordi- 
nary  means.  But,  you  will  inquire,  "  Why  such  a  defeat  ?  " 
Weakness  of  faith,  and  distrust  in  God,  were  perhaps  the 
18 


ttMii 


"«!* 


5NFLI0T. 

pathise  with  the 
nd  powers.  It 
ay  do ;  for  God 
xumcnts,  which 
letter  to  one  of 
account  of  the 
nake  himself  a 
'  and  will  forci- 

9  veiy  position 
bad  placed  me, 
ival.  My  soul 
r  the  conversion 
■nestly  for  a  re» 
>  month  of  De- 
in  another.  I 
ing  aflorwards ; 
public ;  only  a 
mplete  failure, 
we  gave  them 
■ned  to  tho  ordi- 
ich  a  defeat?" 
"e  perhaps  the 


iii>iii.i.K.ij»i  '..jiftiii^j' 


THE  PRBPARAirON    AND  THB  CONFLICT. 


19 


chief  causes.    We  missed  our  way,  by  not  lighting  up  the 
chapel  at  once.    We  endeavoured  to  take  hold  of  the  popu- 
lation by  moans  of  these  little  meetings  in  various  parts  of 
the  town,  and  failed  to  make  a  suflScient  impression  upon  tho 
public  mind.    Sinners  cared  nothing  for  us  and  our  paltry 
movements;  there  was  no  expectation  raised,  no  curiosity 
excited ;  we  were  down,  nor  could  we  recover  ourselves ;  and 
so  the  effort  was  abandoned.    "  But  why  did  you  take  such 
a  course?     Why  then  did  you  not  open  the  chapel?" 
There  were  several  reasons:  1st.  We  could  not  obtain  the  proper 
preachers  to  assist  in  such  an  arduous  undertaking.     They 
were  all  engaged  in  vigorous  efforts  for  soub,  in  "  protracted 
meetmgs"  on  their  own  circuits.    2d.  I  had  at  that  time  a 
very  small  stock  of  sermons  that  were  any  way  suitable  for 
a  revival.    Unhappily,  I  had  spent  much  of  my  time  upon 
speculative  divinity ;  in  composing  sennons,  fifteen  thousand 
of  which  would  not,  it  is  probable,  have  brought  one  sinner  to 
God.    Tho  truths  embodied  in  them,  were  not  at  all  calcu- 
lated to  bring  about  an  instantaneous  revival;    The  few  ser- 
mons likely  to  make  an  impression,  had  been  exhausted  in 
the  ordinary  services.    3d.  I  concluded  that,  in  these  pri- 
vate  meetmgs,  some  good  might  be  done  by  taking  up  new 
texts  of  a  revival  tendency,  and  preaching  as  I  best  could. 
But  not  having  at  command  tho  proper  materials  for  the 
illustration  of  truth,  nor  those  arguments  which  are  best  adap- 
ted to  awaken  sinners,  and  excite  public  attention,  I  could 
only  dwell  upon  the  dry  materials  of  theology,  and  so  I  was 
as  one  beating  the  air.     4th.  Aware  of  my  deficiencies, 
pride  or  prudence  suggested  the  impropriety  of  my  attempt- 
ing to  preach  every  mght  in  the  chapel,  where  a  failure 
might  be  attended  by  a  serious  reaction. 

But  the  same  difficulties  accompanied  me,  of  counse,  to 
the  meetings  in  the  private  dwellings.    I  knew  my  want  of 


I 


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f. 


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20 


TITE    PREPARATION  AND    THE  CONFLICT. 


preparation  for  so  many  sermons,  and,  though  it  should  not 
have  effected  me,  (for  my  trust  ought  to  have  been  in  God,) 
yet  it  weakened  my  faith,  and  I  had  no  courage.  The  pray- 
mg  men  caught  my  spirit  also ;  thus,  instead  of  being  ablo 
♦o  fight  a  battle  manfully  for  God,  during  several  weeks  I 
could  only  stand  a  few  akirmiahea,  and  the  devil  and  sin 
Tvsro  v?.ctAonou3. 

Here  I  received  a  lesson  never  to  be  forgotten.    I  now 
■aw  the  necessity  of  turning  my  attention  to  that  style 
of  preaching  which  would  be  Ukely,  by  the  aid  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  to  awaken  sinners,  and  bring  penitents  to  God.    Be- 
vival  artillery,  I  resolved  to  have.    I  fasted  and  prayed,  and 
searched  the  Scriptures.  My  reading,  thinking,  conversation, 
and  all  my  observations,  were  laid  under  contribution  to  ono 
end ;— preparation  for  aouUaving,  which  I  now  perceived  to 
be  the  main  end  of  the  gospel  ministry.    My  Uttle  stock  of 
sermons  smtable  for  a  revival,  increased  rapidly.    When  a 
text  presented  itself  as  suitable  for  a  revival,  my  cry  was, 
««Lord  God,  open  the  eyes  of  my  understanding;   give  mo 
a  clear  perception  of  thy  meaning  in  this  passage."    A  fore- 
noon was  generally  spent  upon  my  knees,  plea^g  for  divis- 
ions and  sub<livisions,  sometimes  a  simple  proposition  was  pre- 
sented.   Having  completed  my  "akeleton,"  I  returned  to 
my  knees,  and  pleaded  for  an  introduction,  and  that  flesh  and 
sinews  might  come  upon  these  dry  bones.    And  the  pleading 
was  T^ftt  in  vain ;  thoughts  of  a  moving  character  came  into 
my  mind  in  troops.  Having  finished  the  rough  outline,  it  was 
folded  'up  till  next  day.     On  the  morrow,  I  returned  to 
my  knees,  read  the  subject  over,  expunged  such  extraneous 
and  superfluous  matter  as  only  tended  to  load  the  memory 
and  encumber  the  subject,  but  retained  all  that  had  point, 
and  was  likely  to  do  execution  among  rinners.    The  holy 
Scriptures  were  then  called  in,  to  prove  or  illustrate  the 


«tf<-^^;!i(^ 


JFLICT. 


THE   PREPARATION  AND  THE  CONFUOT. 


21 


ugh  it  should  no! 
ivo  boon  in  God,) 
rage.  Tho  pray- 
sad  of  being  able 
Bcveral  'weeks  I 
ho  devil  and  sin 

brgottcn.  I  now 
ion  to  that  style 
)  aid  of  the  Holy 
inta  to  God.  Re- 
i  and  prayed,  and 
ing,  conversation, 
ontribution  to  one 
[  now  perceived  to 
My  little  stock  of 
■apidly.  When  a 
ival,  my  cry  was, 
anding ;  ^ve  mo 
assage."  A  fore- 
pleading  for  divis- 
•opositionwas  prc- 
i,"  I  returned  to 
and  that  flesh  and 

And  the  pleading 
laracter  come  into 
agh  outline,  it  was 
iw,  I  returned  to 
id  such  extraneous 

load  the  memory 
Q  that  had  point, 
iirners.  The  holy 
e  or  illustrate  the 


sentiments ;  commentators  were  referred  to ;  and  lastly, 
my  private  Journal  and  Common-Placo  Book.  It  is  proper 
to  remark,  tliat  I  had  long  attended  to  that  advice  ^veu 
by  an  aged  American  minister,  to  a  young  preacher: 
"  This  I  would  advise  you,  wherever  you,  in  any  reading,  meet 
^th  a  curious  illustration,  prize  it,  seize  it,  enter  it  in  papers 

Muei'c  you  iJu^y  Utisigu  ik  IckigUig  lOi  SuCii  iiiOoliUUioitj  joweid. 

like  Hezekiah,  have  your  treasures  for  precious  stones  ;  and 
let  these  be  such  unto  you.  Get  such  an  amassment  of  them, 
that  among  them  you  may  be  like  tho  king  of  Tyrus,  and 
walk  up  and  down  in  the  midst  of  tho  stones  of  fire,'  when 
you  are  upon  the  holy  mountain  of  God.  One  of  these  may 
be  like  an  ingot  of  gold,  and  a  whole  discourse  may  be  ren- 
dered acceptable  by  having  such  a  jewel  studded  in  it." 
After  walking  thus  in  the  mount  with  God,  among  my  jewel* 
and  ttonea  of  fire  ^  some  original,  others  by  right  of  conquest, 
and  collecting  such  as  were  calculated  to  move  an  assembly, 
—  supposing  I  could  do  nothing  more  iirith  them  at 
present,  the  written  outline  was  brought  to  the  footstool  of 
God,  thus :  "  0  Lord  God  of  hosts,  God  of  the  armies  of 
Israel,  and  Head  of  the  Church,  I  ask  thy  acceptance  of 
my  body,  soul,  and  spirit,  and  of  this  my  humble  offering, — 
this  outline  of  a  sermon,  which  I  now  present  to  Thee.  Foi 
give  all  that  may  be  wrong  in  it,  or  which  savors  of  human 
infirmity ;  and  grant  that,  wherever  and  whenever  it  shall  be 
preached,  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost  may  attend  it  to  tho 
hearts  of  sinners  and  believers.  Grant  that  I  may  obtain, 
by  its  instrumentality,  thousands  of  souls  to  my  ministry, 
from  the  ranks  of  wickedness,  through  Jesus  Christ  my  Lord ! 
For  this,  and  the  pardon  of  all  my  sins,  and  the  purification 
of  my  nature,  I  offer  the  atonement  of  the  Saviour.  I  trust 
in  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  thy  Son ;  I  cast  myself  upoftil 
by  faith,  and  upon  the  veracity  of  Christ  Jesus  in  that  proik 


»aii><(<>**!^Mi-"gii] . 


'-'^a^B&iwsaww'^M'*'"'')'" 


i_. 


**2 


THE    rREPARATIOX  AND  THE   CONFLICT. 


ise :  *  What  things  soever  you  desire  Then  yo  pray,  believe 
that  yo  receive  them,  and  ye  shall  have  them.'  I  liave  do- 
sired  these  things,  I  have  prayed  for  them,  and  I  do  receive 
what  I  have  asked,  agreeably  to  thy  will." 

The  sermon  was  then  placed  among  kmdred  subjects,  and 
carefully  put  away,  under  the  label  — revival  ;  and  I  held 
myself  in  readiness  to  take  up  another  text,  in  a  similar 
manner. 

But  you  will  inquire :  "  Did  you  not  preach  them  imme- 
diately to  your  people  ? ' '  Sometimes  I  did  so,  but  not  always ; 
nor  could  I,  the  ordinary  services  bemg  so  few.  I  consid- 
ered myself  only  in  preparation  for  a  campaign ;  that  I  waa 
just  getting  my  ammunition  and  engines  of  war  in  readiness 
for  a  great  battle.  The  following  Conference  recalled  me 
from  the  town  alluded  to,  and  sent  mo  to  another  field  of 
labour.  After  my  arrival,  I  endeavoured  to  get  the  church 
into  a  prepared  state  for  a  revival ;  and  proceeded  with  in- 
creased activity  in  the  accumulation  of  "  munitions  of  war." 
As  the  time  approached,  when  we  were  about  to  enter  upon 
an  extraordinary  conflict  with  the  powers  of  darkness,  I  en- 
deavoured to  secure  mimsterial  help,  but,  in  case  of  a  failure 
in  that  quarter,  had  my  own  artillery  ready.  I  had  faith  m 
God  and  good  courage,  because  faith  had  been  exercising 
itself  for  several  months  in  active  preparation  for  the  holy 
war.  Cromwell  said  to  his  soldiers,  on  the  battle-field, 
"Trust  in  the  Lord,  and  rely  upon  your  pikes!"  and,  on 
another  occasion,  "  Tnist  in  the  Lord,  and  keep  your  powder 
dry ! "  But  had  they  had  neither  pikes  nor  powder,  their  trust 
in  God  would  not  have  been  very  firm.  In  my  last  skir- 
mishes with  the  devil  and  his  children,  I  had  a  feeble  trust  in 
Qoi,  but  had  neither  pikes  nor  powder ;  you  know  what  I 
mean,  and  I  have  told  you  the  results.  On  the  eve  of  this 
battle,  glory  be  to  God !  I  had  both  pikes  and  powder.    I 


"^Bnt.  .f,j. 


MMMMW 


_^ 


ONFIJCT. 

n  yo  pray,  bcliovu 

icm.*     I  have  do- 

I,  and  I  do  roccivo 
> 

idrcd  subjects,  and 
IVAL ;  and  I  held 
text,  in  a  suuilar 

reach  them  immc- 
.  80,  but  not  always ; 
so  few.  I  coasid- 
ipaign ;  that  I  was 
)f  war  in  readiness 
irenco  recalled  me 

0  another  field  of 
.  to  get  the  church 
proceeded  with  in- 
mimitions  of  war." 
bout  to  enter  upon 
i  of  darkness,  I  en- 
in  case  of  a  failure 
ly.  I  had  faith  in 
ad  been  exercising 
ration  for  the  holy 
>n  the  battle-field, 
ir  pikes ! "  and,  on 

1  keep  your  powder 
•  powder,  their  trust 

In  my  last  skir- 

tad  a  feeble  trust  in 

you  know  what  I 

On  the  eve  of  this 

es  and  powder.    I 


TUB  PUEPABATION  AND  THE  CONFLICT. 


23 


trusted  m  God,  however,  knowing  that  both  wore  useless,  if 
not  attended  by  an  influence  from  heaven ;  and  when  fully 
in  the  engagement,  the  weapons  were  wielded  ynth  such  an 
energy  as  if  every  thmg  had  depended  upon  human  might. 

The  people  of  God  wore  fully  aware  of  the  diflScultiea  in 
the  way  of  a  revival ;  but  they  were  all  of  one  heart  and 
soul,  and  jomed  together  as  an  impenetrable  phalanx.  The 
respective  officers  put  on  the  heavenly  armour  of  faith,  and 
hope,  and  love.  The  intended  conflict  was  talked  of  in  every 
direction,  and  all  was  expectation  in  the  town. 

The  time  arrived;  the  house  of  God  was  thrown  open,  and 
hostilities  commenced.    Many  people  thronged  there  to  wit- 
ness the  conflict.     The  weapons  of  our  warfare  were  not 
carnal,  but  mighty  through  God  to  the  pulling  down  strong 
holds,  and  casting  down  imaginations,  and  every  high  thing 
that  exalted  itself  against  the  knowledge  of  Christ.    The 
pulpit  was  the  "grand  battery,"  but  there  were  several 
others  along  the  ramparts ;  (if  you  will  allow  me  to  continue 
the  use  of  military  phraseology,  which  I  employ  without 
scruple,  as  did  St.  Paul,  because  it  was  a  real  battle  between 
nund  and  mind,  light  and  darkness,  truth  and  error,  powers 
divine  and  diabolical;)  and  there  were  no  "blank  motions," 
no  "powder  and  flash  without  ball."    The  execution  was 
tremendous.    It  appeared  to  some  as  if  the  devil  had  fled, 
and  left  the  field  to  Zion's  sons.    If  so,  he  left  his  troops 
under  a  "galling  fire,"  and  the  surrender  of  some  of  his 
regents  wns  exceedingly  grand.     The  battle  lasted  nine 
weeks ;  and  the  results  wore  glorious.     If  victory  had  not 
been  ours  at  the  end  of  that  time,  we  must  have  had  to 
retreat,  as  my  "ammunition"  was  nearly,  exhausted ;  but 
this  only  imparted  a  fresh  impulse  to  my  mind,  to  lay  up 
"  military  stores  "  on  a  larger  scale.    In  addition  to  this,  my 
late  experience  had  enabled  mo  to  detect  the  artillery  that 


MIMI 


■-^''llt'll^lN  lie' .-^.^..v.^ 


24 


IllK  PRRPARATION   AND  THB  CONFLICT. 


waa  weak  or  unwieldy,  and  therefore  unfit  for  the  service. 
There  weie  weapons,  some  of  whoso  i^inta  were  too  soft,  other* 
of  a  harder  tcmiwramont  than  they  should  have  been ;  ana 
though  they  did  some  execution  upon  mind,  they  might  have 
accomplished  much  more,  had  they  been  of  better  metal, 
kindlier  temper,  and  keener  edge.  To  remedy  these  defects, 
and  get  ready  for  another  campaign,  waa  my  happy  employ- 
ment during  the  mterrals  of  my  pastoral  duties. 

In  the  meantime,  the  new  converts  received  close  attention , 
were  appointed  to  classes ;  new  claasca  were  formed,  and 
every  possible  means  used,  by  visiting  them  daily  at  their 
own  houses,  and  by  affectionate  pulpit  discourses,  to  confirm 
and  establish  them  in  the  practice  of  true  piety.  Books 
were  placed  in  their  hands  for  the  improvement  of  their 
minds ;  and  the  absence  of  any  one  of  them  from  class,  was 
a  subject  of  immediate  inquiry.  Thus  the  reaction  talked 
of  by  some  was  avoided ;  we  had,  in  fact,  nothing  of  the 
kind.  A  few  went  back  to  the  world,  I  admit,  and  shortly 
after,  a  number  of  the  new  converts  ^ed  happy  in  God,  and 
went  home  to  glory ;  but  a  large  majority  remain  to  the 
present  day,  pillars  in  the  church  of  God,  and  happy  witnesses 
that  "Jesus  Christ  hath  power  upon  earth  to  forgive  sins." 

I  have  now,  my  dear  brother,  ^ven  you  a  detailed  accwmt 
of  my  experience  in  these  things.  I  could  enlarge,  but  it 
is  not  necessary.  If  I  have  been,  in  some  measure,  succes- 
fiil  among  my  brethen,  in  vrinmng  souls  to  Christ,  the  Holy 
Spirit  of  God  has  been  the  original  and  efficient  cause  ;  and 
to  him  be  all  the  glory.  That  he  works  by  means,  you  will 
readily  admit,  and,  in  the  above  hasty  sketch,  you  have 
seen  the  progress  of  my  mind  in  laying  hold  of  that  clasa 
of  truths  which  is  calculated,  by  divine  aid,  to  awaken  end 
convert  sinners.  I  could  give  you  an  account  of  many  re- 
virali,  in  which  I  hav«  been  engaged  during  past  years,  and 


i. 


?LICT. 

for  the  service, 
-c  too  soft,  othon 
have  been ;  ana 
they  might  have 
)f  better  metal, 
dy  theac  defects, 
f  happy  cmploy- 
itica. 

1  close  attention , 
ere  formed,  and 
n  daily  at  their 
arses,  to  confirm 
)  piety.  Books 
vcment  of  their 
1  from  clasa,  was 

reaction  talked 
,  nothing  of  the 
hnit,  and  shortly 
ippy  in  God,  and 
y  remain  to  the 
I  happy  ■vntncssos 
to  fori^ve  sins." 
I  detailed  accoimt 
d  enlarge,  but  it 
measure,  succes- 

Christ,  the  Holy 
cicnt  cause ;  and 
r  means,  you  Viill 
iketch,  you  have 
old  of  that  clasa 
1,  to  awaken  end 
ount  of  many  re- 
\g  post  years,  and 


THE   rUKl'AllATION    AND   TUM    VONi'LlCT. 


25 


farther  observations  upon  Iho  effects  of  particular  and  po'mtcd 
truth  upon  different  characters,  but  time  will  not  permit. 
My  mind  la  quifco  aa  much  alive  as  ever  to  seize  upon  illus- 
trations in  nature,  science,  and  common  evory-day  life,  of 
which  the  world  is  full,  wore  wo  only  intent  upon  perceiving 
them.  My  common-place  books  and  little  pocket  note-books, 
are  always  at  hand,  in  which  are  noted  down  whatever  may 
occur  to  my  thought,  in  conversation,  observation,  and  reading 
I  am  fully  persuaded,  the  reason  why  some  preachers  are 
averse  to  what  are  called  "revival  movements,"  is  not 
because  they  have  no  desire  for  the  conversion  of  sinners, 
nor  from  a  conviction  that  God  has  not  called  them  to  bring 
siimers  to  roi)entanco,  for  they  frequently  attempt  it;  nor 
because  they  have  no  talents  for  such  an  effort ;  but,  chiefly, 
for  the  want  of  proper  pulpit  preparatioru,  to  begin  and 
carry  forward  a  revival.  Although  they  may  have  a  respect- 
able stock  of  sermons,  wWch  procure  them  a  rank,  dosonredly, 
among  the  accomplished  theologians  of  the  day ;  yet,  the 
engaging  a  very  few  times  in  preaclung  would  exhaust  their 
capital ;  and  then,  to  come  forward  with  "  long  common-placo 
sermons,"  as  unfit  for  producing  immediate  and  beneficial 
effect  in  a  revival,  as  snow  upon  a  harvest  field,  would  disap- 
pomt  even  the  expectation  of  sinners,  discourage  penitents, 
and  weary  and  unfit  believers  to  enter  the  prayer  meeting 
with  life  and  zeal.  A  few  such  dull  sermons  would  soon 
thin  the  oongregatiou,  and  leave  the  preacher  to  address  an 
array  of  empty  seats.  Such  men  have,  therefore,  no  heart 
for  such  a  continued  aad  laborious  struggle.  What  confi- 
dence could  a  general  have  in  laying  siege  to  a  citj,  or  in 
atteinptmg  to  take  it  by  storm,  knowing  thnt  he  has  neither 
ammiaiiti'^n  nor  artillery  soOScient  for  such  an  undertakl&g^t 
But  >;heao,  in  a  spiritual  sense,  every  nuaistcr  of  Jesiiff  muil' 
have,  if  he  would  uniertakg  with  proper  energy  to  lay  dege 
8 


"T  ;pfei!ac?'«!B'  *i'i'*i'n'* ' 


n 


THE   PREPARATION  AND   THE  CONl'UCT. 


if 


to  and  storm  a  population  of  Binners.  Ilenco,  tho  proacheffl 
on  whom  I  liave  ventured  to  animadvert,  are  shy  of  making 
full  proof  of  their  call  to  the  work  of  the  ministry,  in  tliis 
■way ;  and  when  the  matter  ia  pressed  home  upon  the  con- 
Bcience  of  one  of  these,  he  usually  resorts  to  the  pitiable 
apology,  "  I  have  no  talent  for  these  revivals.  Every  man 
has  his  particular  gift.  All  cannot  bo  revivalists.  I  must, 
therefore,  proceed  in  my  own  way." 

Let  the  inquiry  be  put  to  his  conscience  and  understand- 
ing, by  a  proper  person,  *'  But,  my  brother,  what  is  your 
way  ?  What  are  you  ainung  at  in  preaching  ?  Upon  what 
principles  did  you  begin  to  preach  at  first  ?  Excuse  tho  in- 
quiry ;  what  were  tho  secret  feelings  -which  p'ompted  you  in 
the  be^nning  of  your  career  in  tho  mimstry  ?  If  the  im- 
mediate conversion  of  sinners,  was  not  your  object,  what  was 
it  ?  Why  ?  for  what  purpose  do  you  yet  enter  the  pulpit  ? 
Is  it  not  to  bring  sinners  to  repentance  ?  But,  if  you  aro 
incapable  of  conductmg  a  prayer  meeting,  and  of  kneeling 
down  to  pray  for  a  penitent  sinner,  to  whom  must  the  church 
of  God  look  ?  If  you  are  incapacitated  to  point  a  trembling 
sinner  to  the  Lamb  of  God,  and  to  tell  him  how  to  believe,  to 
whom  must  the  mihappy  soul  resort?  Do  you  say,  'I  make 
such  tlungs  known  in  the  pulpit,  and  that  is  the  place  for  the 
performance  of  my  duty  V  But  St.  Paul  preaxjhed  Jesus  'from 
house  to  house,'  and  *  with  many  tears;'  is  it,  therefore, 
improper  to  do  the  same  thing  in  a  prayer  meeting,  under 
circumstances  so  mtcresting  ?" 

Language  more  pointed  than  this  might  be  used,  but  it  is 
well  even  with  this,  if  he  keeps  his  temper. 

You  may  depend  upon  it,  you  will  find  in  the  above  hints, 
most  of  the  prominent  reasons  for  the  aversion  of  some  men 
to  revivals;  and  why  they  discountenance  extraordinary 
endeavours  for  the  salvation  of  sinners.    It  is  upon  the  samti 


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■    "•'*W*f*«ttf*!rt 


JFUCT. 

iCO,  tlio  prcaclierfl 
re  shy  of  making 
ministry,  in  this 
me  upon  the  con- 
3  to  the  pitiable 
Is.  Every  man 
valiats.    I  must, 

and  imderstand- 

jr,  what  is  your 

ig?    Upon  what 

Excuse  the  in- 

i  prompted  you  in 

stry?     Iftheim- 

r  object,  what  was 

jnter  the  pulpit  ? 

But,  if  you  are 

and  of  kneeling 

1  must  the  church 

point  a  trembling 

how  to  believe,  to 

you  say,  'I  make 

3  the  place  for  tho 

■ached  Jesus 'from 

is  it,  therefore, 

ir  meeting,  under 

be  used,  but  it  is 

a  the  above  hints, 
sion  of  some  men 
ico  extraordinary 
1  is  upon  tho  same 


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27 


principles  that  wc  may  frequently  account  for  those  mortify- 
ing failures,  when  special  cflforta  have  been  made  to  bring 
about  a  revival. 

I  cannot  close  without  an  allusion  to  your  mental  conflicts. 
Have  you  not  read  Augustine's  advice  to  a  young  minister, 
Prepara  te  ad  prc8»ura8  ?  To  which  a  good  man  added, 
"  ^Vllcn  a  man  enters  upon  the  work  of  preaching  the  gospel, 
lie  finds  himself  speedily,  as  it  were,  in  the  wine-press."  It 
is  seldom  the  following  sentiments  of  one  now  with  God, 
have  failed  to  be  realized  in  one  way  or  other  in  my  experi- 
ence :  "  You  will  hardly  ever  be  engaged  in  any  special 
service  for  the  kingdom  of  God,  but  you  will  either  just 
before  it,  or  after  it,  meet  with  some  special  trouble ;  either 
from  some  failure  of  your  health,  or  in  some  storm  of 
gi"0undlcss  obloqmes  among  the  people ;  or,  which  is  worst  of 
all,  some  horrid  colaphiaatiom  from  wicked  spirits  on  your 
mind,  strongly  filling  you  with  consternations  and  confusions, 
wliich,  be  they  ever  so  unreasonable,  yet  will  bo  intolerable." 

It  is  m  the  latter  way,  I  have  Wtherto  chiefly  suffered, 
although  I  have  had  my  trials  from  most  of  the  above  sources ; 
but  tho  onsets  of  those  cruel  and  innsible  spirits  upon  my 
mind  have  often  been  terrible.  Tho  devil  has  generally 
taken  Ins  revenge  in  this  way,  when  I  have  been  favored  with 
any  remarkable  success  in  the  work  of  the  numstry.  These 
conflicts  have  often  been  very  severe  just  before  some  re- 
markable conquest;  and  after  tho  revival,  he  has  come 
against  me  as  a  roaring  lion ;  but  the  Lord  hath  Wtherto 
delivered  mo,  and  by  such  commotions,  prepared  me  for 
greater  usefulness,  and  endued  me  with  a  larger  measure  of 
watchfulness  and  hunulity. 

I  have  often  shortened  these  days  of  trial,  by  plunging 
into  another  revival ;  then  all  has  become  light,  and  peace, 
^nd  joy.    I  have  therefore,  of  late  years,  arranged  matters, 


J 


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THE  PREPARATION   AND  THE  CONFLICT. 


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BO  as  to  step  into  another  effort  for  a  revival,  when  my  work 
has  concluded  in  any  given  place.  The  devil  has  been 
baffled  for  the  time,  by  these  rapid  movements ;  but  he  has 
still  threatened  my  trembling  soul  in  a  manner  I  cannot 
describe;  suggesting,  that,  for  every  instance  in  which 
ho  has  been  foiled  in  this  way,  he  shall  yet  have  his  ven- 
geance, in  one  concentrated  and  tremendous  storm,  which  is 
brooding  and  preparing  in  the  gloomy  distance.  "  But  none 
of  these  things  move  me,  neither  count  I  my  life  dear  unto 
myself,  if  I  may  finish  my  course  with  joy,  and  the  ministry 
I  have  received  of  the  Lord  Jesus."  "He  that  will 
wage  war  with  hell,  must  suffer  hell's  rage,"  has  long  been 
my  motto ;  but,  if  the  devil  and  I  must  fight,  I  am  deter- 
mined to  be  the  aggressor.  I  think  there  is  an  advantage 
here  worth  taking ;  and  we  may  take  it  most  fairly,  as  the 
apostle  tells  us  he  is  wide  awake  to  "  get  an  advantage  of 


lis 


t" 


These  trials,  I  admit  -mth  you,  are  "worse  than  preaching ;" 
and,  a  succession  of  them,  make  a  man  look  older  by  many 
years  than  he  really  is.  The  people  who  surrounded  our 
Lord,  mistook  him  for  being  nearly  fifty  years  of  age,  when 
he  was  only  a  little  more  than  thirty.  "  Thou  art  not  yet 
fifty  years  old," — this  was  their  nearest  guess, — "  and  hast 
thou  seen  Abraham  ?"  John  viii.  57.  J.  o. 


I 
tlio^ 
con 
bee 
mer 
ceri 
yiel 
thai 
hisi 
wit! 
is  fi 
ofh 
hel 
to  a 
met] 
stati 
Am( 

P 
few 
deso 
comi 
mth. 
prea 
ono 


FLICT. 


,  when  my  »»orl{ 
devil  has  been 
nts ;  but  he  has 
nanner  I  cannot 
jtance  in  which 
et  have  his  ven- 
I  storm,  which  is 
ce.  "  But  none 
ny  life  dear  unto 
and  the  nunistry 
«He  that  will 
*  has  long  been 
ight,  I  am  deter- 
is  an  advantage 
lost  fairly,  as  the 
an  advantage  of 

than  preaching ;" 
k  older  by  many 
surrounded  our 
irs  of  age,  when 
liou  art  not  yet 
less, — "  and  hast 
J.  0. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

THE    TEST    OP    REVIVAL    PRINCIPLES. 

Such  were  the  experiences  of  God's  church  nearly  three 
thousand  years  ago,  that  its  saints  could  say,  with  triumphant 
confidence,  *' The  word  of  the  Lord  is  tried'*— \.  e.  it  has 
been  put  to  the  test— it  has  stood  the  trial  of  experi- 
ment. It  may,  therefore,  be  relied  upon  with  unshrinking 
certainty.  It  is  this  certainty — this  unwavering,  un- 
yielding, invincible  confidence  in  the  faithfulness  of  God, 
that  has  sustained  Mr.  Caughey,  that  has  lam  at  the  base  of 
his  movements — and  inspired  his  heroic  heart,  in  its  conflicts 
with  the  kingdom  of  darkness.  The  following  letter,  which 
is  fired  with  the  energy  of  its  author,  is  strikingly  illustrative 
of  him.  It  reveals  him  in  the  battle-field,  testing  the  weapons 
he  had  furnished  and  sharpened  in  the  closet.  It  was  written 
to  a  friend  in  England,  who  desired  his  counsel  on  the  best 
methods  of  brin^g  a  church  into  a  revival  state.  After 
stating  that  the  scene  of  the  work  was  a  town  in  North 
America,  Mr.  Caughey  proceeds  to  say :  — 

Protracted  religious  services  were  determined  upon,  by  a 
few  choice  spirits,  who  had  for  some  time  mourned  over  the 
desolations  of  Zion  in  that  town.  The  time  fixed  for  the' 
commencement  of  hostilities  arrived.  The  conflict  began 
with  a  determination  I  have  seldom  seen  surpassed.  We 
preached  the  gospel  during  a  succession  of  evenings,  with  but 
one  single  object  in  view,  to  bring  hardened  sinners  to 
»•  29 


1: 


I 


30 


THE  TEST  OF    REVIVAL  PRINCIPLES. 


repentance.  There  were  many  such  in  that  town  ;  ungodly 
men,  who  had  long  set  the  God  that  made  them  at  defiance ; 
men  who  violated  his  law,  neglected  his  worship,  despised  his 
servants,  denied  the  truths  of  his  Bible,  and  entertained 
opinions  the  most  degrading  and  anti-scriptural.  Dninken- 
ness.  Sabbath-breaking,  whoredom,  profane  swearing,  and  all 
manner  of  wickedness,  were  practised  without  feeling,  fear, 
or  remorse.  But  a  few  there  were  who  "sighed  and  cried" 
for  all  the  abominations  of  the  place.  "  Rivers  of  water," 
stud  some,  "  run  down  mine  eyes,  because  men  keep  not  thy 
law."  "  It  is  time.  Lord,  for  thee  to  work,  for  they  have 
made  void  thy  law,"  was  the  mournful  and  intcrceiUng 
language  of  others.  The  example  of  some  ministers  in  the 
town  was  no  rule  for  us.  Our  duty  was  plain; — not 
to  glance  over  this  moral  desolation  an  eye  of  careless 
indifference ;  nor  to  be  governed  in  our  movements  by  that 
Gainite  sentiment,  the  principle  of  which  is  so  prevalent  in 
the  present  day :  "  Am  I  my  brother's  keeper  ?  "  We  did 
not  feel  ourselves  called  to  deplore  merely  the  general  wick- 
edness around,  nor  the  horrors  of  that  dreadful  hell  towards 
which  that  wickedness  was  carrying  this  population  of  sinners, 
but  to  make  vigorous  efforts  for  their  rescue. 

Believing  the  gospel  to  be  Heaven's  revealed  instrumen- 
tality to  bring  about  an  event  so  dewrable,  we  endeavoured 
to  wield  its  divine  truth  with  all  the  energy  with  which 
it  had  pleased  God  to  endue  us.  Our  efforts  were  not  con- 
fined to  the  Sabbath,  or  to  one  or  two  evenings  in  the  week, 
but  "night  and  day,"  throughout  the  week,  not  in  the 
sanctuary  alone,  but  from  house  to  house;  afternoon  and 
lught  we  laboured  for  God  in  the  chapel ;  the  forenoons  and 
intervals  between  meetings,  we  exhorted  the  people  at  their 
homes  to  turn  to  God.  Sinners,  howevi  r,  remained  hard 
and  obstinate.    They  seemed,  in  fact,  as  if  leagued  together 


i 


'LE3. 

town ;  ungodly 
im  at  defiance ; 
lip,  despised  his 
Lnd  entertained 
ral.  Dninken- 
yearing,  and  all 
it  feeling,  fear, 
;b«d  and  cried" 
rera  of  ■water," 
5n  keep  not  thy 

for  they  have 
md  intcrceiling 
ministers  in  the 
a  plain; — not 
ye  of  careless 
irementsby  that 

so  prevalent  in 
«r?"  We  did 
le  general  wick- 
ful  hell  towards 
ation  of  sinners, 

lied  instmmen- 
re  endeavoured 
rgy  with  which 
I  were  not  con- 
igS  in  the  week, 
ek,  not  in  the 
;  afternoon  and 
3  forenoons  and 
people  at  their 
remained  hard 
}agaed  together 


IHE  TEST  OF  REVIVAL  PRIKCIPLfS. 


81 


to  defeat  our  object;— not  indeed  by  open  and  avowed 
hostility,  but  by  keeping  themselves  away  from  the  house  of 
God.    The  few  who  ventured  into  our  assemblies,  were  as 
unmoved  as  the  seats.     The  "  why  and  wherefore  "  of  all 
this  "reUgious  stir  and  din,"  seemed  to  be  the  predommant 
inquiry  upon  the  features  of  the  visitora.    This  was  just  what 
we  wanted  to  see ;  and  we  were  detenmncd  to  have  this 
expression  become  general.     "Truth,"  said  one,  "fears 
nothing  more  than  inattention.     It  is  too  unportant  to  be 
treated  with  indifference.     Opposition  calls  forth  and  sharp- 
ens the  powers  of  the  human  mind  in  its  defence.    The 
cause  of  the  gospel  has  ever  gained  by  investigation.    Cre- 
dulity is  the  bane  of  it." 

Our  congregations  increased,  but  the  hardness  and  mi- 
penitcncy  of  sinners  continued.     Of  one  thing  I  can  assure 
you,— the  whole  counsel  of  God  was  deUvered.    Nothing 
was  kept  back  which  we  considered  profitable  to  our  hearers, 
or  essential  to  the  faithful  declaration  of  our  message.    With 
the  sentiment  of  an  elegant  writer  we  heartily  concurred  : 
"  The  defensive  armour  of  a  shrinkmg  and  timid  poUcy,  does 
not  suit  Christianity.    Hers  is  the  naked  majesty  of  truth. 
With  all  the  grandeur  of  age,  but  with  none  of  its  infirmities, 
has  she  come  down  to  ns,  and  gathered  new  strength  from 
the  battles  she  has  won  in  the  many  controversies  of  many 
generations.    With  such  a  religion  as  this,  there  is  nothing 
to  hide ;  all  should  be  above-board ;  and  the  broadest  light 
of  day  should  be  made  fully  and  freely  to  circulate  through 
all  her  services.    But  secret  things  she  has  none.    To  her 
belong  the  frankness  and  the  simpUcity  of  conscious  great 
ness.    And  whether  she  grapple  with  the  pride  of  philosophy, 
or  stand  in  pointed  opposition  to  the  prejudices  of  the  multi- 
tude, she  does  it  upon  her  own  strength,  and  spurfifl  all  the 
props,  and  all  the  auxiliaries  away  from  her." 


mJ 


{ 


82 


THE  TEST  OF  REVIVAL  PRTNCIPLES. 


We  were  not  seeking  after  gain  or  popularity.    We  asked 
not  the  money  of  our  hearers,  nor  their  goods,  nor  any  por- 
tion of  them.     "  It  is  not  for  you  to  be  fishing  for  gudgeons, 
but  for  towns,  forts,  and  castles,"  said  Cleopatra  to  Mark 
Antony.      Glory  be  to  God!    we  were  not  fishing  for 
gudgeons,— -/My  lucre,  or  the  praise  of  men— but  we  had 
laid  close  siege  to  the  town,  its  forts  and  its  castles ;  every 
strong-hold  of  Satan.    Wo  wielded  the  same  weapons  as  did 
the  apostles.     (2  Cor.  x.  4.  5.)    And  as  the  forts,  towers, 
and  castles,  all  the  strong-holds  of  the  kingdom  of  hell,  came 
tumbling  down,  under  the  mighty  and  supernatural  blows  of 
their  weapons,  we  did  expect  to  see  the  same  effects  pro- 
duced, ere  the  battle  was  ended  m  which  we  were  now 
engaged.    Human  applause  was  as  valueless  as  the  dust  of 
their  streets.    Their  wrath  we  dreaded  not.    Neither  men 
nor  devils  were  we  afraid  of.    We  expected  persecution,  but 
we  were  yet  too  insignificant.    Dogs  do  not  bark  at  a  solitarjr 
star  or  two ;  but,  as  old  Alciat  observes,  in  his  "  Emblems,'- 
they  bark  most  when  the  moon  is  at  the  full ;  perhaps  not  so 
much  at  the  moon  herself,  as  at  the  "s..dnge  and  dubiouj 
things,"  which  multiply  upon  their  animal  vision.    We  an 
ticipated  that  when  the  little  church  began  to  shine  forth, 
"  bright  as  the  sun,  fair  as  the  moon,  and  terrible  as  an 
army  with  banners,"  in  a  glorious  revival,  that  it  would  set 
all  the  dogs  in  town  barking. 

Again  and  again,  as  our  congregations  increased,  the 
gospel  of  our  God  and  Saviour  was  proclaimed  in  all  its 
fulness,  while  the  steel  of  eternal  truth  was  pointed  directly 
at  the  heart  of  every  sinner.  The  sins  of  the  people  were 
clearly  and  faithfully  portrayed  in  all  their  horrible  deformity. 
QTiere  was  no  daubing  with  untempered  mortar ;  no  com 
promising  of  truth ;  no  beating  the  air  with  idle  words ;  no 
temporizing;  no  trimming  to  suit  the  prejudices  of  the  peo 


.^^..tiv.-mmu^i  '*<*■ 


:s. 

7.    We  asketi 
,  nor  any  por- 
for  gudgeons, 
patra  to  Mark 
)t  fishing  for 
— but  we  had 
lastles;  every 
weapons  as  did 
I  forts,  towers, 
of  hell,  came 
tural  blows  of 
e  effects  pro- 
we  were  now 
IS  the  dust  of 
Neither  men 
rsecution,  bul 
k  at  a  solitarj^ 
^^  Emblems,^' 
erhaps  not  so 
and  dubiouf 
m.    We  an 
)  shine  forth, 
^rrible  as  an 
it  would  sei 

creased,  the 
led  in  all  ita 
ited  directly 
people  were 
le  deformity, 
ar ;  no  com 
e  words ;  no 
8  of  the  peo 


THK  TEST  OF  REVIVAL  PllINCIPLES. 


83 


plo ;  no  mincing  of  truth,  a  little  now  and  a  little  again,  as  the 
people  could  bear  it ;  no  equivocal,  or  ambiguous  scntcncca 
or  expressions,  phrases  of  "doubtful  signification,"  in  order 
to  avoid  offending  delicate  ears.  Things  were  called  by 
their  proper  names ;  whoredom  was  named  whoredom ;  adul- 
tery, fornication,  &c.,  were  called  such ;  hell,  sin,  sinners, 
and  the  devil,  were  subjects  set  before  the  people  in  all  tho 
terror  of  the  one,  and  the  native  ugliness  of  the  other.  Tho 
law  of  God,  and  the  bell  of  eternity,  were  set  forth  with  all 
the  sanctions  of  the  former,  and  with  all  the  torments,  weep- 
ing, wailing,  and  gnashing  of  teeth,  of  the  latter. 

While  dealing  with  these  sinners,  we  were  perplexed  with 
no  misgivings  respecting  the  extent  of  the  redeeming  plan. 
We  knew,  to  borrow  the  language  of  another,  that,  "  as  the 
gospel  had  no  linutation  as  it  regarded  time,  it  had  nothing 
of  the  kind  when  applied  to  human  character."     "Jesus 
Christ,"  we  insisted,  "  by  the  grace  of  God  tasted  death  for 
every  man ;"  "he  is  the  propitiation  for  our  sins,  and  not 
for  ours  only,  but  also  for  the  sins  of  the  whole  world ; "  and 
"by  him  all  that  believe  are  justified  from  all  things,  from 
which  they  could  not  be  justified  by  the  law  of  Moses;" 
that  so  long  as  a  sinner  had  repentance  and  faith  in  his  heart, 
we  knew  not  a  single  crime,  or  collection  of  crimes,  in  the 
whole  catalogue  of  human  depravity,  that  the  atoning  blocd  of 
Christ  could  not  wash  away ;    or  that  there  was  any  des- 
perado of  vice  and  folly,  within  the  compass  of  our  voice, 
however  sunk  in  the  depths  of  his  dark   and  umuaral 
depravity,  who  was  not  welcome  to  come  to  Christ,  if  h«i 
would.    Nor  would  such  a  sinner  find,  that  the  crimson 
inveteracy    of   his   manifold    offences    was    beyond    the 
reach  of  the  peace-speaking  and  purifying  blood  of  the  Son 
of  God.    We  were  persuaded  that  as  the  justice  of  God 
•ofifored  no  encroachment  by  the  offers  of  mercy  to  the 


I  f 


-i- 


34 


THE  TEST  OF  REVIVAL  PRINCIPLESi 


believing  penitent,  and  as  mercy  itself  is  restrained  by  no 
limitation,  there  can  bo  no  arrest  laid  upon  its  offers,  ainsing 
from  the  shades,  and  degrees,  and  varieties,  of  human  sin- 
fulness ;  that,  allowing  the  existence  of  repentance  and  faith 
witliin  the  soul  of  the  sinner,  there  is  no  point  in  the  de- 
scending scale  of  human  depravity  beyond  which  it  cannot 
go,  even  "  to  hell's  trembling  verge."  They  were  told,  that, 
aa  "  for  guilt,  in  its  full  impenitency,  Jesus  Christ  dyed 
his  garments,  and  waded  through  an  arena  of  blood,  so  mij^ht 
the  most  abandoned  of  the  children  of  iniquity  begin  a  contrite 
movement  toward  him ;  that  Jesus  Christ  would  be  the  last 
person  in  heaven  to  spurn  them  away  from  purchased  mercy, 
purchased  by  his  own  most  precious  blood ;  nor  would  he  ever 
close  the  door  of  mercy,  which  had  cost  him  so  much  to  open ; 
that  he  would  never  quench  the  spark  of  the  sinner's  desire  for 
salvation,  nor  break  the  bruised  rood,  nor  overturn  the  prop 
of  hope  in  Christ,  upon  which  ht>  was  invited  to  rest."  But, 
strange  as  it  may  appear,  a  sullen  front  of  resistance  was 
still  maintained  upon  the  part  of  sinners.  With  us  the  mat- 
ter was  settled,—" Victory  or  death"  Again  the  lightmngs 
of  truth  and  terror  flashed  over  the  congregations.  The 
thunders  of  Sinai  reverberated  long,  loud,  and  dreadful. 
The  place  trembled,  and  the  heart  and  soul  of  man  quaked 
before  the  presence  of  the  Lord  God  of  hosts. 

We  were  not  trammeled  in  our  efforts  by  rich  and  time- 
fierving  professors ;  nor  by  any  who  were  anxious  we  should 
obt^  or  retain  the  approbation  of  the  wealthy.  There  was 
no  sensation  created  on  the  appearance  of  influential  persons 
in  the  congregation,  lest  they  might  take  offence,  and  leavo 
the  church,  possibly  to  return  no  more.  We  were  troublod 
with  no  officials  cautioning  us  against  ^ving  offence,  with  a 
"peradventure,  such  and  such  persons  will  withdraw  from 
ihe  church,  and  withhold  hereafter  their  support.'-     The 


"i^SSS^iSSi 


.'j;  lajiiu:  u.'A^.ir>!>J»i> 


;straincd  by  no 
18  offers,  arising 
,  of  human  sin- 
atanco  and  faith 
point  in  the  de- 
vhich  it  cannot 
were  told,  that, 
13  Christ  dyed 
'  blood,  so  mi;^ht 
begin  a  contrite 
ould  be  the  last 
irchased  mercy, 
or  would  he  ever 

0  much  to  open ; 
nncr's  desire  for 
ertum  the  prop 
to  rest."  But, 
f  resistance  was 
ITith  us  the  mat- 
n  the  lightnings 
regations.  The 
,  and  dreadful, 
of  man  quaked 

\a. 

■  rich  and  time- 
udous  wo  should 
hy.  There  waa 
fluential  persona 
'ence,  and  leavo 
B  wore  troubled 

1  offence,  with  a 
withdraw  from 

support.'''     Tbo 


TUB  TEST  OF  KEVIVAL    TRINCirLES. 


O 


h 


people  of  God  were    poor  and  feeble,  and,  from  various 
causes,  had  dwindled  down  to  a  solitary  disheartened  few. 
They  know  very  well  if  God  did  not  interfere,  and  vouchsafe 
a  revival,  their  church,  in  that  place,  must  become  extinct. 
The  dear  people  felt  their  feebleness,  but  thoy  were  loyal  at 
heart,  and  stood  by  us.      Some   could  do   but  little,  as 
it   regarded    vocal    prayer,    but  they    coiUd    weep    and 
pray  secretly ;   not  unlike  a  little  girl,  of  whom  I  heard 
the    Rev.   Dr.   Beaumont  relate  the  following    anecdote, 
in  Liverpool :     Four  children,  three  brothers  and  e  littlo 
sister,  were    enjoying   a   ramble   along    the   banks   of   a 
river,   when   one   of    the  boys   accidentally  fell  into  tlio 
water;    just    as   he  was    sinking,    another   little  brother 
plunged  in  for  his  rescue,  and  when  they  were  both  strug- 
gling in  tlie  stream,  the  other  brother  reached  out  his  hand, 
and  caught  the  second  brother,  who  was  about  to  sink  also ; 
and,  by  the  good  providence  of  God,  both  found  bottom,  and 
crawled  ashore,     "Wlien  they  arrived  at  home,   tho  glad 
father,  who  had  learned  the  jeopardy  of  his  children,  called 
them  around  him,  and  inquired  of  one,   "  Well,  what  did 
you  do  to  save  your  drowning  brother  ? "     "I  plunged  into 
the  water  after  him.  Sir,"  was  the  reply.     "And  what  did 
you  do  ?  "  ho  inqmred  of  the  next.     "  I  carried  hun  homo 
upon  my  back,  Sh-."     Turning  to  his  little  daughter,  ho 
said,  "  Well,  my  dear,  and  what  did  you  do  to  save  your 
drowning  brother  ?  "     She  replied,   "  I  fell  a  crying,  papa, 
as  hard  as  I  was  able,  all  the  time."    Aye,  and  perhaps  her 
teai-s  and  cries  prompted  her  little  brothers  to  these  desperato 
and  successful  efforts  for  the  rescue  of  their  sinking  brother. 
Be  this  as  it  may,  we  felt  ourselves  stimidated  to  "  deeds  of 
noble  daring,"   by  the  tears  and  cries  of  this  precious  littl© 
flock. 
Durmg  eight  or  nine  days,  sinners  wore  thus  battered  by 


fr 


■■  I 


36 


THE  TEST   OF   IlliVlVAL   rUINCIl'LEB. 


,     I 


the  artillery  of  the  law,  and  assailed  on  every  sido  by  tho 
offers  of  tho  gospel.  Kvcry  apiieul  made  to  their /ear*  was 
followed  by  another  to  their  hopes.  HeU  and  its  horrors, 
BUI  and  its  penalties,  glared  around ;  wlule  Calvary  and  ita 
scenes  were  held  forth  as  pledges  of  hope  and  salvation.  If 
they  wept  not,  wo  did,  as  Christ  was  sot  forth,  evidentt/ 
crucified  before  their  eyes  :— 

"  Jmus  drinks  the  bitter  cup, 
The  wine-pres»  treads  olone ; 
Tears  tlio  graves  and  mountains  up, 
By  his  expiring  groan. 

•  *  » 

Well  may  heaven  bo  cloth'd  in  black, 

And  solemn  sackcloth  wear ; 
Jesus'  agonies  partake, 

The  hour  of  darkness  share : 
Uonm  th'  astonish'd  hosU  above  t 

Silence  saddens  all  the  okiea ; 
Kindler  of  sorapliic  love, 

Tho  God  of  angels  dies. 

0,  my  God,  he  dies  forme, 

I  fe«l  the  mortal  smart  1 
S«e  him  hanging  on  the  tree, — 

A  sight  that  breaks  my  heart  i 
0  that  all  to  thee  might  turn ; 

Sinners,  ye  may  love  him  too ; 
Look  on  him  ye  pierced,  and  moora 

For  one  who  bled  for  you. 


Weep  o'er  your  desire  and  hope, 
With  tears  of  humblest  love  :"— 


«*  JB^AoW,'"  wc  cried,  as  sin  still  occupied  tiie  ground, 
and  sinners  stiU  remained  hard  and  unsubdued,  "'Behold 
the  Lamb  of  God  which  takcth  away  the  sins  of  the  world . 
-see  an  expiring  Saviour!    God  is  now  in  Christ  recon 
ciling  you  to  hunself,  not  imputing  your  trespaflses  unto  you. 


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^ 


cry  Bida  by  tho 
1  their /ear*  waa 
and  its  horrors, 
Dulvary  and  its 
id  salvation.  If 
forth,  evidently 


ipied  the  ground, 
ahducd,  "'Behold 
sins  of  the  world!' 
ff  in  Christ  rccon 
espaagesunto  you- 


tUB  TEST  OF  REVIVAL  riUNCIl'LBfl.  87 

*  0  bellovo  tlio  record  true, 

Ooil  to  you  his  Sou  Imth  given  I 
Ye  nii\y  now  bo  happy  too ; 

Find  on  earth  the  life  of  heaven  t 
Live  the  life  of  lieavcn  above, 
Kll  the  life  of  glorious  love  ! ' 

Plead  the  merits  of  his  death,  0  sinners !  Behold  your 
pardoning  God !  IIo  is  ready  to  blot  out  your  transgressions 
as  a  tliick  cloud ;  your  sins  and  your  iniquities  will  he 
rjmember  no  more.  Believe,  only  behove,  and  yours  is  the 
ri,?ht  and  title  to  the  kingdom  of  heaven."  Think  me  not 
tedious,  my  dear  brother,  nor  over  particular  in  descending 
to  such  a  minute  detail  as  to  the  manner  of  our  address  to 
those  sinners.  It  was,  indeed,  a  regular  siege,  and  an 
important  one.  We  now  were  maldng  full  proof  of  our  minis- 
try, and  pushing  our  tremendous  principles  to  those  results 
intended  by  the  Author  of  them.  Hell  and  heaven  were 
perpetually  before  our  eyes.  The  danger  of  that  eternal 
damnation  to  wliich  these  sinners  were  every  moment  exposed, 
absorbed  our  every  thought.  We  knew  no  other  method  by 
which  to  save  them  from  the  perdition  that  awaited  them  but 
this ;  nor  did  we  want  any  other.  Our  triumphant  boast 
was,  "  I  am  not  ashamed  of  the  gospel  of  Christ,  for  it  is 
the  power  of  God  unto  salvation  unto  every  one  that  believeth , 
to  the  Jew  first,  and  also  to  the  Greek ; "  and  we  were 
determined  not  to  stir  from  the  place  till  the  power  of  that 
gospel  was  realized,  and  acknowledged  by  angels,  devils,  and 
men. 

Never,  I  assure  you,  did  a  besieging  army  bombard  a  city 
with  greater  confidence  of  beholding  a  surrender,  than  wo 
felt  when  beleaguering  these  sinners.  Speculations  were 
never  more  rife,  outside  the  walls  of  a  besieged  city,  as  to 
what  part  of  the  walls  would  bo  likely  to  give  way  and  cause 
a  breach,  than  wore  the  speculations  among  some,  as  to  what 
4 


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THE  TEST  OP  UEVIVAL  PRINCIPLES. 


sinnor,  or  what  clas8  of  sinners,  would  firat  break  down 
under  tho  truth,  and  cause  a  gap  in  the  ranks  of  aui.  Aa 
the  crisis  approached,  our  congregations  increased ;  our  all- 
ahsorbing  feelings  seeirxed  to  pervade  tho  people,  but  nonft 
K  ^  sufficient  courage  to  bravo  the  gaze  of  the  muUvtudo, 
and  separate  himself  aa  a  stricken  sinner. 

Night  had  succedcd  to  night,  and  day  to  day,  without  any 
conversions.  The  sword  of  tho  Lord  appeared  to  us  as  if 
blunted  against  the  hardened  mass ;  tho  arrows  of  truth 
rebounded  from  flinty  hearts  as  if  they  had  boon  shot  against 
a  stone  wall. 

The  time  of  extremity  was  God's  opportunity.  la  thero 
anything  too  hard  for  Jehovah  ?  "  Nothing  but  quite  im- 
possible, is  hard."  "  God  is  terrible  out  of  his  holy  places," 
Bays  the  psalmist.  He  speaks,  and  it  is  done ;  he  commands, 
and  it  stands  fast.  "  Pompey  boasted,"  said  one,  "  that  with 
one  stamp  of  his  foot  he  could  raise  all  Italy  in  arms ;  but 
God,  with  one  word  of  his  mouth,  could  raise,  not  all  Italy 
only,  but  all  heaven."  He  is  wonderful  in  working.  Ho 
humbles  human  pride,  Lud  secures  his  own  glory,  by  render- 
ing our  plans  and  efforts  useless  for  a  time,  and  bringing 
about  his  purposes  by  the  humblest  and  weakest  instrumen- 
tality. One  of  our  company,  a  minister,  in  the  course  of 
his  visitations  from  house  to  house,  thought  proper  to  extend 
his  visits  of  mercy  to  a  blacksmith's  shop,  in  which  were 
several  men  at  work,  most  of  whom  were  very  wicked ;  tho 
voice  of  profane  swearing  often  sounded  out  from  it  horribly. 
One  of  the  young  men  was  shoeing  a  horse  when  our  friend 
entered,  and  did  not  observe  his  approach.  He  suddenly 
advanced,  and  whispered  sharply  in  the  ear  of  the  busy 
einner,  "  You  must  have  your  feet  shod  with  the  prepaiation 
of  the  gospel  of  peace."  The  man  was  taken  by  surprise, 
as  much,  perhaps,  as  if  the  horse  had  struck  liim.     Ila 


J 


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inka  of  sill.  Aa 
roused ;  our  all- 
pcoplo,  but  nonv, 
if  the  multvtu'io, 

day,  without  any 
arod  to  ua  aa  if 
arrows  of  truth 
boon  shot  against 

xnity.  Is  thero 
ig  but  quite  im- 
his  holy  places," 
le ;  he  commands, 
i  one,  *'  that  with 
ily  in  arms ;  but 
liao,  not  all  Italy 
in  working.  Ho 
glory,  by  render- 
ae,  and  bringing 
sakest  instrumen- 
,  in  the  course  of 
;  proper  to  extend 
>,  in  which  were 
rery  wicked ;  tho 
b  from  it  horribly. 
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(.  He  suddenly 
car  of  tho  busy 
h  the  preparation 
aken  by  surprise, 
struck  him.     Ila 


II 1 1  mi  ipjuBwy^w 


THE  TiiST  OF  REVIVAL  rUINCirLES.  H| 

hiiatily  raised  his  head,  discovered  the  author  of  this  strange 
siihite,  dropped  it  agi'iii,  muttorod  something,  and  foU  a 
/iiunmcring  a  nail  into  t.hc  slioo  violently.  Tho  word  was  a 
nail  fastened  in  a  sure  place.  The  Spirit  of  God  was  thcro, 
aivl  c.-ovc  it  into  the  simi':>r's  heart.  The  minister  left  tho 
sli'  Y  witho.u  'aying  any  more.  That  night  tho  man  mingled 
vrth  [ho  crowd  who  omen  d  the  churcli,  and,  at  tho  close  of 
tlio  sciTOi  r.  presented  himself  as  a  distressed  and  condemned 
vjn  )&r,  soliciting  "  prayer  and  help."  A  number  of  others, 
•iuito  as  unliappy  as  himself,  were  soon  by  his  side,  when 
tliey  all  raised  their  cry  together,  "  Lord  have  mercy ! " 
This  was  tho  hour  of  our  triumph.  Now  wo  witnessed  a 
scone  which  repaid  'oa  for  all  our  toil,  The  young  smith, 
with  i^u-ny  more,  obtrfjicd  salvation  Iho  same  evenin<». 
From  that  night  the  work  of  God  vrent  on  in  majesty  and 
power. 

It  was  now,  and  from  this  lime,  that  wo  saw  those  great 
truths,  which  other  ministers  were  contented  to  preach  from 
Sabbath  to  Sabbath,  and  from  year  to  year,  without  behold- 
ing any  visible  effects,  invested  with  u,  j7cter.cif  which  was, 
indeed,  glorious,  mighty,  and  almoet  irrcsfjtible.  Tlio 
moment  a  sinner  came  within  range  of  its  uiiluence,  ho  was 
alTtctcd.  Many  a  stout  and  stubborn  adier^^^ry  waa  fielled 
i '  tho  ground,  and  roared  for  mercy,  as  if  ho  wrg  going 
4'iick  into  hell.  We  had  evidence  before  our  eyes,  the  most 
coiv,  Idc'ng,  that  if  the  people  of  God  set  tnei''  hearts  upon 
a  revival,  and  use  the  proper  mears,  they  cannot  fjil  to  obl.iin 
tlioir  desire.  Theix  feebleness,  in  every  worldly  sense  in 
which  the  term  may  be  used,  will  be  no  obstacle.  If  they 
depend  upon  the  aid  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  fast  and  prey,  and 
employ  every  other  mothod  authorized  In  tha  word  of  God, 
earth  and  hell  combined  caimot  hinder  a  revival.  The  prayer 
lust  prevail :— 


I 


40 


THE   TEST   OF   REVIVAL  PRINCIPLES. 


"  Like  mighty  win  Js  anil  torrents  fierce, 
Let  it  opposers  all  o'errun, 
And  every  law  of  sin  reverse." — 

Let  the  ministers  of  any  particular  church  trample  under 
foot  that  silly  objection,  that  extraordinary  means  will  thro^ 
discredit  upon  the  ordinary.  Rather  let  them  decide,  that 
the  former,  if  successful,  must,  in  the  nature  of  the  case, 
confer  honour  upon  the  ordinary  services.  Uncommon  efforts, 
justify,  to  the  fullest  extent,  those  endeavoui-s  which  are 
put  forth  in  the  common  services  of  the  sanctuary  ;  but  that 
they  do  impart  a  significancy  and  a  power  to  the  regular 
services  of  the  future,  is  now  a  fact  well  attested.  Let 
them,  then,  break  boldly  through,  and  no  more  confine  them- 
selves to  the  limits  of  Sabbath  preaching,  but  take  a  firm 
stand  before  the  congregation  in  reference  to  a  revival.  The 
doors  of  the  house  of  God  must  be  thrown  open  for  daily 
and  nightly  preaching.  Let  them  be  simple  of  heart,  and 
aim  at  one  thing,  the  conversion  of  sinners.  Ordinary  ser- 
mons, however,  they  must  know,  will  not  be  suitable  for  such 
services,  unless  they  desire  to  preach  to  empty  pews..  Ex- 
traordinary plans  and  movements  will  demand  an  extrar 
ordinary  kind  of  preaching.  We  do  not  expect  to  see  snow 
in  harvest ;  nor  the  sea,  smooth  as  glass,  and  calm  as  a  fish- 
pond, when  a  storm  is  out  upon  its  sm-face.  I  need  not  mul- 
tiply words  or  figures.  You  know  what  I  mean.  I  would 
recommend  the  same  style  of  preachmg,  and  means,  which  I 
have  liinted  at  in  this  letter  when  describing  our  efforts  for 
the  great  revival  in  question.  If  the  people  of  God  unite 
with  their  nunisters,  and  encourage  them  by  their  presence 
and  prayers,  while  they  arc  preaching  fearlessly,  vigorously, 
and  pointedly,  those  great  truths  likely  to  awaken  and  convert 
men,  the  arm  of  God  will  soon  be  made  bare  in  a  great 
revival.     I  would  urge  the  continuation  u  the  meeting  for 


J 


I  <f  A.W^tW*«»-"<  <  'ulfc-afc..'. 


mUM\  i»»wi.<WW**i*M- 


PLES. 


h  trample  under 
mcaus  -mil  throiir 
them  decide,  that 
bure  of  the  case, 
Jncommon  efforts, 
iVom-s  which  are 
ictuary ;  but  that 
jr  to  the  regular 
11  attested.  Let 
acre  confine  them- 
but  take  a  firm 
0  a  revival.  The 
n  open  for  daily 
pie  of  heart,  and 
;.  Ordinary  ser- 
3  suitable  for  such 
mpty  pews..  Ex- 
icmand  an  extra- 
xpect  to  see  snow 
nd  calm  as  a  fiah- 
I  need  not  mul- 
'.  mean.  I  would 
id  means,  which  I 
ng  our  efforts  for 
)ple  of  God  unite 
by  their  presence 
lessly,  vigorously, 
waken  and  convert 
}  bare  in  a  great 
r  the  meeting  for 


THE  TEST  OP  REVIVAL  PRINCIPLES. 


41 


weeks,  with  or  ^rithout  success.  Whether  the  congregations 
are  large  or  small,  I  would  continue  the  meetings.  Though 
sinners  were  as  wicked  aa  devils,  and  as  bard  and  senseless, 
or  stupid,  as  the  seats  of  the  chapel,  I  would  continue  the 
meetings,  and  preach  on,  every  night,  with  an  undying  trust 
in  the  promises  of  God.  Magna  est  Veritas  et  p-cevalebit, 
— Cheat  is  truth,  and  it  shall  prevail.  Let  them  thus  go 
on  repeating  the  blow,  "  Victory  or  death,"  and  they  shall 
see  a  revival ;  such  a  tunung  to  God,  such  an  in-gathering  of 
souls  to  the  fold  of  Christ,  as  will  gladden  the  hearts  of  all 
who  believe ;  while  the  scene  will  spread  a  tide  of  holy  joy 
over  all  the  inhabitants  of  heaven.    Luke  x  v.  10. 


i 


.'3iiii 


CHAPTER  V. 


THE     CALL     OF    THE     SPIRIT. 

Wb  are  now  approaching  a  fact  in  Mr.  Caughey'a  expe- 
rience, of  deep  and  affecting  interest.  "We  are  about  to 
witness  him  listening  to  a  solemn  call  from  God,  which  is  to 
utterly  change  the  sphere  of  his  action,  to  cast  him  as  a 
pilgrim  on  the  shores  of  another  land,  and  to  affect  the 
destiny  of  thousands.  The  opimon  of  the  reader  concerning 
the  exercises  about  to  be  described,  will  depend  on  the 
character  of  his  pre-existing  views  of  divine  operations  on 
the  human  heart.  If  he  possesses  exalted  faith,  if  his  mind  is 
spiritualized  by  devotion,  if  he  has  a  soul  tutored  by  the  Spirit 
to  that  child-like  simplicity,  so  earnestly  required  by  Jesus 
Christ,  he  wiU  readily  give  credence  to  Mr.  Caughey's 
statements,  and  admire  that  sublime  obedience  which  led 
him,  in  the  spirit  of  Abraham,  to  leave  Ids  home,  to  abandon 
the  sphere  of  his  present  usefuhiess,  nmpltf  because  God 
required  it ! 

But  if  his  heart  is  more  alive  to  the  voices  that  come  from 
without,  than  to  the  "  still,  small  voice  "  within ;  if  he  has 
more  faith  in  the  visible  than  in  the  invisible ;  if  he  is  a 
disbeliever  in  the  subjective  operations  of  the  Spirit  of  God 
on  the  human  soul ;  he  will  probably  read  with  a  cold, 
questioning  incredulity.  But  let  him  remember,  that  many 
great  and  pious  men  have  had  a  firm  belief  in  the  subjective 
42 


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THE   CALL  OF  THE  SPIRIT. 


43 


IT. 

laughey'fl  cxpe- 
e  are  about  to 
3od,  •which  is  to 
cast  him  as  a 
id  to  aflFect  the 
%der  concerning 
depend  on  the 
B  operations  on 
th,  i£  his  jound  is 
red  by  the  Spirit 
quired  by  Jesus 
Mr.  Caughey's 
ience  which  led 
lome,  to  abandon 
ly  because  God 

i  that  come  from 
rithin ;  if  ho  has 
ible;  if  he  is  a 
te  Spirit  of  God 
ad  with  a  cold, 
mber,  that  many 
in  the  subjective 


mfluences  of  the  Spirit.  "Wesley,  Fletcher,  Edwards, 
Luther,  Doddridge,  Banyan,  and  many  other  greatly  good 
men,  would  readily  have  sympathized  with  such  impressions 
as  those  oi  Mr.  C. ;  where,  as  in  his  case,  they  were 
preceded  by  the  steady  enjoyment  of  holiness,  by  a  life  of 
prayer,  and  attended  by  outward  Providences  corresponding 
with  and  confii-ming  the  mward  impressions.  As  long  as  it 
stands  recorded  in  the  Bible,  that  the  Spirit  directed  Philip 
and  Peter  and  Paul,  that  Christ  pledged  that  Spirit  for  the 
guidance  of  his  disciples,  and  especially  of  his  ministers, 
there  can  be  no  room  to  doubt  the  possibility  of  such 
impressions.  The  proofs  of  their  genuineness  in  individuals, 
must  be  sought  in  their  fruits.  To  this  test  we  shall  see 
those  of  Mr.  Caughey  submitted ;  and  by  their  fruits,  the 
reader  will,  we  think,  be  compelled  to  admit  their  supernat- 
ural origin.  But  we  will  let  Mr.  Caughey  speak  for  himself, 
in  the  following  striking  portions  of  his  correspondence ;  he 
says  to  an  mquiring  friend : 

I  cannot  say  I  have  any  serious  objections  against  relating 
to  you  the  circumstances  which  led  me  to  this  smgular 
decision.  I  would  have  done  so  in  my  last;  but  I  felt  a 
hesitancy  to  tell  you,  in  the  sunplicity  of  my  heart,  those 
severe  exerciaes  of  nund  connected  with  it.  I  knew  your 
cool  and  metaphysical  turn  of  mind  so  well,  that  I  feared  to 
open  a  new  field  for  your  speculative  genius.  It  is  likely 
my  simple  story  will  excite  your  incredulity  more  than  ever. 
"  Strange,"  you  will  say,  "  that  a  man  of  sense,  and  a 
minister  of  God,  should  suffer  himself,  for  such  a  small  affair, 
to  be  tossed  Uke  a  ball  into  a  far  country ;  or,  that  he  should 
suppose  such  great  effects  would  be  connected  with  such 
insignificant  causes ;  that  the  infinite  God  should  stoop  to 
bring  about  such  important  events  from  means  so  small  and 
paltry ! " 


I 


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44 


TIIB  CALL  OP  THE  SPIRIT. 


To  this  I  answer,  Man  always  proportions  his  means  to 
his  ends.  He  seeks  to  accomplish  great  designs  by  great 
means.  With  Wm,  the  cause  must  always  be  commensurate 
with  the  intended  eflfects.  On  the  contrary,  God  has  ever 
delighted  to  humble  the  pride  of  man,  by  bringing  about  the 
greatest  events  by  the  smallest  instrumentality.  When  dis- 
posed to  smile  at  the  trivial  matter  which  arrested  my  nund, 
and  which  prepared  it  to  take  such  an  unusual  course,  I  wish 
you  would  reflect  on  that  verse  you  have  heard  me  repeat, 
and  which  you  so  much  admire :  — 

"  A  pebble  in  the  streamlet  icnnt, 

Hm  turned  the  coune  of  many  a  river ; 
A  dew-drop  on  the  baby  plant, 
Has  warped  the  giant  oak  forever" 

You  will  remember  our  Conference  of  1839,  was  held  in  the 
city  of  Schenectady,  N.  Y.  That  year  I  was  appomted  to 
Whitehall,  N.  Y.  Shortly  after,  I  had  my  library  and  study 
furniture  forwarded  to  my  station. 

It  was  then  I  began  seriously  to  reflect  upon  the  propriety 
of  choosing  a  wife,  believing  that  "marriage  is  honourable  in 
all  men."  I  had  travelled  a  number  of  years,  studied  hard, 
and  expended  all  my  time  and  strength  in  winning  souls  to 
Christ.  My  brethren  approved  of  my  intention.  But  while 
indulging  in  this  purpose,  for  some  reasons  I  could  not  ex- 
plain, my  heart  became  very  hard.  The  Lord  seemed  to 
depart  from  me;  and  that  countenance,  wluch  so  often 
beamed  upon  me  from  above,  and  had  daily,  for  many  years, 
brightened  my  soul  into  rapturous  joy,  appeared  now  to  be 
mantled  in  the  thickest  gloom. 

The  more  I  reflected  thus,  "I  can  see  no  good  reason 
yfhj  I  should  be  singular  among  my  brethren,  nor  continue 
to  lead  this  solitary  life,"  my  heart  became  harder,  and  my 
darkness  increased.  I  was  soon  involved  in  a  variety  of  evU 
reasonings.     My  will  seemed  to  be  in  a  conflict  with  some 


L 


his  means  to 
signs  by  great 
commensurate 
God  has  ever 
iging  about  the 
J.  When  dis- 
rated my  mind, 
.  course,  I  wish 
ird  me  repeat, 


(fas  held  in  the 
as  appointed  to 
)rary  and  study 

n  the  propriety 
is  honourable  in 
3,  studied  hard, 
inning  souls  to 
ion.  But  while 
[  could  not  ex- 
iord  seemed  to 
^hich  so  often 
for  many  years, 
ured  now  to  be 

no  good  reason 
n,  nor  continue 
larder,  and  my 
a  variety  of  evil 
flict  with  fK>me 


mm      •% 


1^ 
('I 


THE  CALL  OF  THE  SPIRIT. 


45 


thing  invisible.  God,  who  had  honoured  me  with  such  inti- 
mate communion  with  himself  since  my  conversion,  appar- 
ently left  me  to  battle  it  out  alone.  So  it  appeared  to  me 
then  ;  but  now  I  see  God  himself  was  contending  with  mc. 
I  was  about  to  step  out  of  the  order  of  lus  providence ;  and 
he  was  resolved  to  prevent  it,  unless  I  should  refuse  to  under- 
stand why  he  thus  resisted  me.  Had  I  continued  the  conflict, 
I  believe  he  would  have  let  me  take  my  own  course ;  nor 
would  he  have  cast  me  off;  yet  I  solemnly  feel,  he  would 
have  severely  chastised  my  disobedience. 

My  distress  and  gloom  were  so  great,  I  could  not  unpack 
my  library,  nor  arrange  my  study.  I  began  to  reflect  most 
solemnly  upon  my  unhappy  state  of  mmd,  and  became  more 
concerned  to  regain  my  former  peace  and  joy  in  God,  than 
to  obtain  any  temporal  blessing  whatever.  The  world  waa 
a  blank,  a  bleak  and  howling  wilderness,  to  my  soul,  without 
the  smiles  of  my  Saviour.  In  fact,  that  I  could  not  live, 
but  must  wither  away  froir.  the  face  of  the  earth,  without 
his  comforting  and  satisfying  presence.  I-ike  a  well-chas- 
tised son,  I  came  back  to  the  feet  of  my  heavenly  Father, 
and  with  many  tears  I  besought  him  to  reveal  his  face  to  my 
soul ;  that  if  my  purposes  were  crossing  his,  to  show  me  ; 
and  whatever  was  his  will,  I  would  at  once,  by  his  help, 
yield  my  soul  unto  it.  "Lord  God,"  I  said,  "if  my  will 
crosses  thy  will,  then  my  will  must  be  wrong;  for  thine 
cannot  but  be  right."  Now  I  cared  not  what  he  com- 
manded me  to  do,  or  to  leave  undone ;  I  stood  ready  to 
obey.  I  felt  assured,  clear  light  from  God  on  some  points 
would  soon  reach  my  soul ;  and  I  was  fully  prepared  for  it ; 
but  I  no  more  expected  such  an  order  as  came  soon  after, 
than  I  expected  he  would  command  me  to  fly  upward  and 
preach  the  gospel  in  another  planet.  During  three  days  I 
cried  to  God,  without  any  answer.    On  the  third  day.  in  the 


nr- 


I 


4G 


THE  CALL  OF  THE  SPmiT. 


afternoon,  I  obtained  an  audience  with  the  Lord.  The  place 
was  abuost  as  lonely  as  Sinai,  where  Moses  saw  the  burning 
bush.  It  was  under  open  sky,  a  considerable  distance  from 
the  habitations  of  men ;  steep  rocks  and  mountains,  deep 
forests,  and  venomous  reptiles  surrounded  me.  Here,  and 
in  a  moment,  the  following  passage  was  ^ven  me  to  plead : 
''  And  the  Lord  descended  in  the  cloud,  and  stood  with  liim 
there,  and  proclaimed  the  name  of  the  Lord.  And  the 
Lord  passed  by  before  him,  and  proclaimed,  The  Lord, 
The  Lord  God,  merciful  and  gracious,  long-suffering,  and 
abundant  in  goodness  and  truth,  keepmg  mercy  for  thousands, 
forgiving  iniquity  and  transgression  and  sin,  and  tb<\t  will 
by  no  means  clear  the  guilty."  Exod.  sxsdv.  6 — 7.  I  took 
hold  of  this ;  many  of  the  words  were  as  fire,  and  as  a 
hammer  to  break  the  rocks  in  pieces  before  the  Lord.  The 
fountains  of  tears  were  opened,  and  the  great  deep  of  my 
heart  was  broken  up.  I  left  the  place,  however,  without 
receiving  any  light ;  but  my  heart  was  fully  softened  and 
subdued,  and  I  felt  assured  I  had  prevailed  in  some  way 
with  God.  I  was  confident  light  and  direction  were  coming ; 
but  of  what  nature  I  could  not  tell. 

Tlus  was  on  the  9th  of  July,  1839.  The  same  evening, 
about  twilight,  eternal  glory  bo  to  God  1  when  reading  in  a 
small  room  adjoimng  my  study,  a  light,  as  I  conceived  from 
heaven,  reached  me.  My  soul  was  singularly  calmed  and 
warned  by  a  strange  visitation.  In  the  moment  I  recogmscd 
the  change ;  the  following,  in  substance,  was  spoken  to  my 
heart ;  but  in  a  manner,  and  with  a  rapidity,  I  cannot  pos- 
sibly describe.  Every  ray  of  dime  glory  seemed  to  be  a 
word  that  the  eye  of  my  soul  could  read,  a  sentence  which 
my  judgment  could  perceive  and  understand:  "These 
matters  which  trouble  tiiee,  must  be  let  entirely  alone.  The 
will  of  God  is,  that  thou  shouldst  mt  Europe.    He  shaV  bo 


SteK 


Wll 

H( 

ac( 
pn 
Ca 
sht 

tl>J 
agi 

imj 
doi 
int< 
was 
I  i 
con 
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sou 
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mis 
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THE   CALL  OF   THE    SPIRIT. 


47 


ord.  The  place 
saw  the  burning 
le  distance  from 
aountains,  deep 
ne.  Here,  and 
a  me  to  plead: 

stood  with  Itim 
ord.  And  the 
led,  The  Lord, 
g-sufiering,  and 
!y  for  thousands, 
n,  and  that  ^1 
.  6—7.    I  took 

fire,  and  oa  a 
^e  Lord.  The 
eat  deep  of  my 
owever,  without 
[j  softened  and 
d  in  Borne  way 
mwere  coming; 

I  same  evemng, 
m  reading  in  a 

conceived  from 
rly  calmed  and 
ent  I  recogmscd 
s  spoken  to  my 
y,  I  cannot  pos- 

seemed  to  be  a 
1.  sentence  which 
tand :  "  These 
aly  alone.  'Iho 
)e.    He  shaV  bo 


with  thee  there,  and  give  thee  many  seals  to  thy  ministry. 
He  has  provided  thee  with  funds.  Make  thy  arrangements 
accordingly;  and  next  Conference,  ask  liberty  from  the 
proper  authorities,  and  it  shall  be  granted  thee.  Visit 
Canada  first ;  when  this  is  done,  sail  for  England.  God 
shall  be  with  thee  there,  and  thou  shalt  have  no  want  in  all 
thy  joumeyings ;  and  thou  shalt  be  brought  back  in  safety 
again  to  America." 

ITie  above  is  far  beneath  the  dignity  and  grandeur  of  the 
impression.  It  came  in  a  way  which  left  no  room  for  a 
doubt.  A  heavenly  cahn,  a  powerful  persuasion,  and  an 
intense  glow  of  divine  love,  accompanied  the  whole.  It 
was  like  the  breaking  forth  of  the  noon-day  sun  at  midnight. 
I  fell  upon  my  knees  before  the  Lord,  my  whole  mind 
consenting  to  the  orders,  which  I  believed  had  come  from, 
heaven.  Oh!  the  sweetness  of  that  communion  I  then 
enjoyed  with  God !  My  sky  was  cloudless.  My  rest  of 
soul  unutterable.  The  meaning  of  many  past  providences 
was  now  explamod.  The  possession  of  a  few  hundreds,  of 
dollars,  had  often  made  me  very  uneasy.  I  doubted  tlie 
propriety  of  laying  up  treasure  on  earth.  The  cause  of 
missions  stood  m  need  of  what  I  possessed,  but  still  I  waa 
restrained.  Now  I  clearly  saw  that  God  had  pro\ided  me 
with  these  funds,  in  order  to  make  me  willmg  to  obey  the 
call,  and  to  save  me  from  embarrassment  in  my  travels.  I 
could  perceive  a  special  reason,  why  I  had  pressed  forward 
in  my  studies  for  so  many  years,  and  why  revival  texts  and 
sermons  had  occupied  so  much  of  my  time ; — that  God  had 
been  thus  preparing  me  for  a  few  campaigns  in  Europe. 

I  arose  from  my  knees  under  a  strong  conviction  that  Gotl 
had  called  me  to  take  tlus  tour.  Letters  were  written  un- 
mediately  to  Canada,  etc.  The  next  day  my  soul  was 
cahn  and  happy.    My  books  were  unpacked,  and  everything 


tf 


i8 


THE  CALL  OF   XllE  Sl'lUIT. 


in  my  study  arranged  with  a  glad  heart  and  free.  Eleven 
months  were  before  mo,  to  criticise  the  impro33ioii3  on  ray  soul. 
With  delight  I  commenced  my  paatoral  work,  visited  from 
house  to  house,  and  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  a  most 
powerful  revival  of  religion  in  my  circuit.  During  this 
period,  not  the  least  wish  entered  my  heart  to  fonn 
any  connection  or  engagement  whatever,  that  would 
entangle  or  hinder  me  from  fulfilling,  what  I  conceived 
to  be,  the  high  and  solemn  commission  I  had  received  from 
the  Lord.  I  continued  to  resign  the  whole  matter  to  God, 
entreating  him  to  overrule  all  to  his  glory,  and  to  hedge 
up  my  way,  if  it  were  not  his  will  I  should  leave  America. 

The  time  for  the  sitting  of  Conference  arrived.  With 
solemn  fecUnga  I  took  my  seat  with  my  brethren.  They 
were  never  dearer  to  my  heart  than  now.  At  a  proper 
time,  I  presented  my  request  to  the  Bishop.  He  made  no 
objections,  but  immediately  proposed  it  to  the  Conference. 
Alter  a  few  moments  deliberation,  they  seemed  to  have 
but  one  mind  on  the  subject ;  that  I  should  have  liberty  to 
vijit  Europe.  A  resolution  to  that  efiFcct  was  passed,  and 
that  my  name  should  continue  to  appear  as  usual  on  the 
printed  minutes.  One  of  the  chief  men  of  the  Conference 
then  arose,  and  said,  "  Having  permitted  Brother  Caughey 
to  visit  Europe,  it  is  our  duty  to  make  his  visit  to  those  countries 
as  pleasant  to  himself  as  it  is  in  our  power.  I  therefore  propose, 
that  he  have  a  recommendation  from  tins  body  to  the  Wes- 
leyan  Connection  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  signed  by  the 
Bishop  and  Secretary  of  Conference."  Adding,  "He  will 
then  appear  among  our  brethren  on  the  other  side  of  the 
Atlantic,  as  an  accredited  Mimster  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  in  America." 

This  proposal  was  immediately  acceded  to,  and  submitted 
to  the  Bishop.    He  replied,  that  he  had  no  objections,  and 


reqi; 
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I  «i|«ililfcwMI!IIMX«'* 


free.  Eleven 
10113  on  my  soul, 
rk,  visited  from 

seeing  a  moat 
During  this 

heart  to  foim 
r,  that  would 
at  I  coneeived 
I  received  from 
matter  to  God, 
,  and  to  hedge 
ave  America. 

arrived.  With 
rethren.  They 
At  a  proper 
He  made  no 
the  Conference, 
seemed  to  have 
have  liberty  to 
vans  passed,  and 
as  usual  on  the 

the  Conference 
irother  Caughey 
;o  those  countries 
liercforo  propose, 
)dy  to  the  Wes- 
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TUB   CALL  OF  THE  SPIRIT. 


49 


||IS«l^Nl»t%,^,i 


requested  me  to  wait  upon  him  at  Us  lodgings.  I  did  so. 
He  entered  into  conversation  with  the  freedom  and  tender- 
ness of  a  father.  Never  before  did  I  see  such  majesty 
connected  with  extreme  age.  His  hair,  white  aa  snow,  fell 
m  graceful  locks  upon  liis  shoulders ;  and  his  masculine 
mind,  unimpaired  by  years,  shone  forth  in  company  with  a 
deep  and  glowing  piety.  I  thought  of  St.  Paul,  of  John, 
of  one  of  the  old  patriarchs.  I  loved,  admu-ed,  and  rever- 
enced him.  After  an  interview  of  half  an  hour,  in  wliich 
the  Bishop  appeared  to  be  greatly  interested,  he  presented 
me  with  the  foUowmg  document:  — 

"TROY  CONFERENCE. 

"MiDDLEBURY,  Vt.,  June  24,  1840. 
"Brother  James  Caughey  having  asked  permission  of  the 
Conference,  to  visit  his  friends  residing  in  Europe, — 

"On  motion,  it  was  resolved.  That  Brother  Caughey's 
request  be  granted,  and  that  he  be  so  returned  on  the 
minutes. 

"And  it  is  hereby  certified,  that  the  said  J.  Caughey  is  in 
good  standing  in  the  Troy  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  in  the  United  States  of  America ;  and, 
as  such,  is  cordiaUy  commended  to  the  Christian  fellowship 
of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Connection  m  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland. 

"R.  R.  Roberts,  President. 
"J.  B.  HouOHTALiNO,  Secretary. 
Troy  Conference." 

I  have  thus,  in  the  simplicity  of  my  heart,  related  to  yon 
my  singular  experience,  and  the  circumstances  which  led 
me  to  t^o  the  course  I  have  taken.         •         •         • 


mm 


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so 


TUB  CALL   OF  THE  SPIRIT. 


These  great  changes  in  Mr.  Caughey's  history,  caused 
by  such  supernatural  experiences,  were  not  rushed  upon 
■without  a  clear  perception  and  due  consideration  of  the  diffi- 
culties they  involved,  as  the  following  extract  of  a  letter  to  a 
friend,  who  had  written  him  on  this  point,  will  show : 

'  I  thmk  I  feel  the  full  weight  of  every  question  you  have 
proposed.  I  have  set  them  down  carefully,  one  by  one,  that 
you  may  see  they  have  all  arrested  my  attention ;  and  that, 
writing  them  oflf,  and  having  them  before  my  eyes,  I  might 
be  affected  by  them,  and  answer  them  most  smceroly.  I  am 
not  aware,  however,  that  they  have  created  the  least  un- 
easiness, or  in  any  degree  shaken  the  purpose  of  my  heart. 
My  call  to  visit  Europe  seems  quite  as  clear  as  to  preach  tho 
gospel.    It  does  seem — 

"  A  part  of  my  being  beyond  my  control." 

I  candidly  admit  that  there  is  a  thick  mist  spread  over 
my  usefulness  on  the  other  side ;  but  sometimes,  through  the 
haze,  I  can  see  great  multitudes  of  sinners  commg  home  to 
God  through  my  instinimentality.  I  have  also  a  solemn  im- 
pression, that  the  salvation,  or  damnation  of  thousands,  may 
depend  upon  whether  I  obey  or  reject  the  call.  I  may  also 
add,  my  impression  is  constant,  that  if  I  refuse  to  go,  God 
will  permit  many  troubles  to  come  upon  me  in  America,  and 
that  I  shall,  through  future  life,  be  ever  after  sorry  I  did  not 
obey. 

Mr.  Caughey's  convictiom  of  the  reality  of  his  divine  call 
seem  never  to  have  faded,  nor  did  his  confidence  in  their 
genuineness  faU  him,  as  wiU  appear  by  tho  foUowingpswsag© 
in  another  of  his  letters.    He  says : 


mwi  ii.ii^t«»  iiii*fi#tiftn  III 


TUB  CALL  OP  THE  SPIRIT. 


6t 


I  history,  caused 
lot  rushed  upon 
ation  of  the  difS- 
;tof  a  letter  to  a 
rill  show : 

[uestion  you  have 
,  one  by  one,  that 
antion ;  and  that, 
ny  eyes,  I  might 
sincerely.  I  am 
;od  the  least  un- 
Dose  of  my  heart, 
r  as  to  preach  tho 


nust  spread  over 
times,  through  the 
rs  conung  home  to 
also  a  solemn  im- 
)f  thousands,  may 
I  call.  I  may  also 
refuse  to  go,  God 
e  in  America,  and 
tor  sorry  I  did  not 


y  of  his  divine  call 
onfidence  in  their 
ofollo^nng  passage 


I  remember  walking  one  afternoon  in  a  rctir&d  spot,  somo 
months  before  I  suilcd  for  Europe.  It  had  been  named 
Providence-path,  because  there  I  had  prevailed  with  God  in 
a  time  of  great  distress  connected  with  my  present  tour. 
All  the  past  providences  of  the  Lord,  and  manifestations  to 
my  soul,  came  up  before  my  mind  m  a  manner  similar  to 
that  part  of  Ezokiol's  vision :  "  The  appearance  of  wheels —  . 
and  their  work  was  as  it  wore  a  wheel  in  the  middle  of  a 
wheel."  I  saw  how  one  wheel  had  worked  mto  another,  and 
started  a  third,  and  fourth,  and  so  on  till  tho  great  wheel  for 
Europe  was  set  in  slow  motion.  Beyond  this  wheel  I  could 
not  see.  Then  there  were  small  wheels  within  wheels,  but 
all  working,  Rom.  vui.  28,  and  contributing  to  the  great 
events  of  my  life.  I  could  name  every  wheel,  and  the  re- 
sults it  produced  upon  tho  one  it  set  m  motion.  I  wondered, 
admired,  and  adored.  Before  leaving  tho  favourite  walk,  I 
traced  the  whole  gently  upon  the  bark  of  a  tree ;  but  in  my 
absence  some  rogue  came,  cut  it  down,  and  carried  it  off,  I 
knew  not  whither.  My  diagrams  I  hoped  might  re- 
main till  I  returned  from  Europe,  'when,  perhaps,  a  few 
more  wheels  might  be  added.  They  are,  however,  too  deeply 
traced  upon  my  memory  ever  to  be  obliterated  in  time  or 
eternity. 

The  following  extract  from  another  letter  mil  show  how 
carefully  Mr.  Caughey  analyzed  his  mental  operations.  Ho 
did  not  grasp  his  impressions  blindly,  hastily,  or  carelessly, 
but  with  solemn  and  serious  care,  sought  to  discern  what  was 
human  and  what  was  divine  in  his  feelings.  On  this  point  ho 
writes : 

To  your  inquiry,  "Did  you  feel  condemnation  on  account 
of  sm  during  your  trials  in  July,  1839  ?"  I  answc  •  No.  I 
Pol*-  Ao  condemnation,  though  perhaps  I  deserved  it.    But  a 


■  '>'<tt>i>ji  »*!■ 


■!^ifrn 


...li'.t-lwi 


'ii'll/t.l 


62 


THK  CALL  OF  TUB   SPIRIT. 


restraint  wfts  upon  mo,  wliich  greatly  diatrc38cd  my  soul ; 
and  wlion  I  began  to  suspect,  that  the  step  might  bo  con 
trary  to  the  AviU  of  God,  I  felt  worao  and  worse.  The  con- 
flicting argumcnta  for  and  against,  drew  mo  out  of  my  rest 
in  God.  I  had  arisen  to  transact  my  own  concerns  iu  my 
own  way,  and  being  imhingcd  from  my  centre,  I  was  diiJr 
contented  and  unhappy. 

There  is,  however,  a  mystery  about  those  deep  cj-.ercisos, 
which  I  fear  to  explain,  lent  it  would  seem  to  contra  lict  the 
reproach  I  have  cast  upon  myself.  I  have  seriouEly  doubted, 
■whether  I  should  have  entertained  tho  call  to  viM  Europe, 
for  a  single  moment,  had  I  not  been  previously  pr«.>pared  by 
those  mental  troubles.  As  it  was,  I  gladly  accepted  any 
proposition  which  would  relievo  mo  from  my  sore  conflicts, 
and  bring  again  to  my  heart  tho  comforting  presence  of  God. 
But  then  God  could  have  ordered  another  kind  of  disciplino 
to  prepare  me  for  obedience,  though  my  foolish  heart  had 
wandered  from  him.  As  it  was,  if  God  diJ  design  to 
send  me  on  this  errand  of  mercy,  it  became  necessary,  I 
think,  in  this  juncture  of  my  liistory,  that  I.  should  kntw  it; 
and  when  it  could  be  no  longer  concealed  from  me,  mthotit 
endangering  tho  whole,  the  Lord  Uien  revealed  h'j:  will.  Hera 
I  must  leave  it  fcr  tho  present.  Tho  present  L  ksow  i  tio 
vatt  also;  but  tho/((<Mre  is  a  dark  \uiknown, 

'  If  light  Rttonda  the  course  I  ran, 

•T  is  he  provides  these  rays ; 
And 't  is  his  hand  that  veils  my  WW. 
If  dftrkne»»  clouds  ray  dayt." 


Ml 

intl 
wit! 
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•csscd  my  soul; 
ep  might  bo  con 
rorsc.  The  con- 
)  out  of  my  rest 
I  concerns  iu  my 
entro,  I  was  diflp 

0  deep  cj'.ercisos, 
to  contra  lict  the 
eriouEly  doubted 

to  vvAt  Europ'\ 
sly  pn.'pared  by 
ily  accepted  any 
ny  soro  conflicts, 

presence  of  God. 
kind  of  discipline 
foolish  heart  had 
ad  did  design  to 
imo  necessary,  I 
r.  should  kntw  it; 
from  me,  mthoi:^ 
led  hii»  vili.  Hera 
sent  i  Ksow ;  Ua 
rn. 


CHAPTLR   VI. 


FIRST    FBUIT3. 


ITa'i'.tng  r<.vJo  his  arningometta  to  obey  the  heavenly  call, 
All  €a  ighcy  atarted  for  Canada  io  tost,  by  actual  conflict, 
'.'ic  genoinenesa  of  tho  impressions  so  touchingly  described 
in  tho  last  chapter.  We  are  sure  tho  reader  will  follow  him 
with  growing  and  eager  interest,  in  his  doscripUons  of  tho 
soencs  enacted  during  this  tour  m  Canada.  Tho  followmg 
letter  was  written  on  board  a  stoamor  descorJing  the  river 
St.  Lawrence :  — 

Dear  Friend  : — You  will  feel  interested  to  hear,  whero 
I  have  been,  and  what  I  have  been  domg,  since  I  last  saw 
you.  I  obtained  liberty  from  Conference  to  visit  Europe, 
(June  24th,  1840,)  but  hiving  some  of  my  temporal  affairs 
to  arrange,  I  did  not  Icjvo  tho  United  States  till  the  17th 
of  September.  On  that  evemng  I  saUed  from  Burlington, 
Vt.,  ill  the  steamer  Burlington,  Capt.  Sherman; — walked 
the  deck  till  midnight,  agitated  with  a  great  variety  of  emo- 
tions, and  distressed  with  many  conflicts.  My  way  seemed 
dark  arid  mysterious.  Bough  weather  settang  in,  drove  mo 
to  my  berth,  sick.  Thd  noxt  morning  I  landed  at  St.  John's. 
I  had  been  invited  to  visit  that  town,  and  an  o<fer  of  accom- 
modation had  been  made  to  me.  Yet  I  thought  it  most 
prudent,  all  things  considered,  to  go  direct  to  tLe  hotel. 

The  next  day  waa  rainy,  and  the  weather  continued  wet 
6*  68 


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54 


PIRSX  FRUITS. 


for  three  days  in  succession.  I  found  the  place  had 
been  deserted  by  the  Methodist  preachers  as  hopeless. 
There  was  no  chapel,  and  the  little  class  had  been  broken  up 
and  scattered.  A  strong  desire  to  remain  a  few  days,  and 
by  God's  help  to  do  some  good,  induced  me  to  make  arrange- 
ments accordingly.  Preaching  was  appointed  in  a  private 
house,  but  very  few  attended ;  and  for  several  mghts  little 
or  no  effect  was  produced,  and  no  increase  of  congregation. 
I  kept  up  good  heart  till  Sabbath ;  when  the  enemy  came  in 
like  a  flood.  My  soul  was  sorely  buffeted,  and  my  prospects 
covered  with  gloom.  Two  ideas  were  continually  before  my 
mind.  First.  That  I  had  done  wrong  in  asking  pemussion 
to  take  this  tour.  Second.  It  is  going  to  be  a  total  failure, 
as  it  respects  the  conversion  of  sinners. 

The  devil  roared  against  mo,  and  my  heart  sank  within 
me.  Providentially,  I  had  in  my  possession  a  volume  wriir 
ten  by  an  old  Scotch  divine.  I  took  it  up  and  opened  on  his 
comment  upon  the  second  verse  of  the  one  hundredtii  Psalm, 
"  Serve  the  Lord  with  gladness."  "  Your  serving  him  doth 
not  glorify  him,  unless  it  be  with  gladness.  A  Christian't 
cheerful  looks  glorify  God.  We  glorify  God  by  walkmg 
cheerfully.  It, is  a  glory  to  God,  when  the  world  sees  a 
Christian  hath  that  within  him  that  can  make  him  cheerful 
in  the  worst  times.  He  can,  with  the  nightingale,  sing  with 
a  thorn  at  Ins  breast.  The  people  of  God  have  ground  of 
cheerfulness.  They  are  justified,  and  instated  into  adoption, 
ai^d  this  creates  inward  peace;  it  makes  music  withui, 
whatever  storms  are  without.  If  we  consider  what  Christ 
hath  wrought /or  us  by  his  blood,  and  wrought  in  us  by  his 
Spirit,  it  is  a  ground  of  cheerfulness ;  and  this  cheerfidness 
gloiifies  God.  It  reflects  upon  a  master,  when  the  servant 
is  always  drooping  and  sad;  sure  he  is  kept  at  hard  com- 
mons ;   his  master  does  not  give  him  what  is  fitting :  so 


I  liiii  ii»mnti\Kni  ^n^iniHULii  I' 


t;^ 


fBH 


the  place  had 
•s  as  hopeless, 
been  broken  up 
L  few  days,  and 
L>  make  arrange- 
id  in  a  private 
al  nights  little 
f  congregation, 
enemy  came  in 
id  my  prospects 
ually  before  my 
king  permission 
>  a  total  failure, 

irt  sank  ^thin 
a  volume  writ- 
d  opened  on  his 
ndredth  Psalm, 
Irving  him  doth 
A  Christian'! 
od  by  walking 
9  world  sees  a 
:e  him  cheerful 
agale,  sing  with 
lave  ground  of 
i  into  adoption, 
music  within, 
er  what  Christ 
it  in  us  by  his 
lis  cheerfulness 
9n  the  servant 
;  at  hard  corn- 
is  fitting:  BO 


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FIRST  FRUITS. 


65 


when  God's  people  hvng  their  harps  on  willows,  sure  they 
do  not  serve  a  good  master,  and  repent  of  their  choice ; 
this  reflects  dishonour  upon  God.  As  the  gi-oss  sins  of  the 
wicked  bring  scandal  upon  the  gospel,  so  do  the  unchoerful 
lives  of  the  godly.  Religion  doth  not  take  away  our  joy,  but 
refines  and  clarifies  it.  It  doth  not  break  our  viol,  but  it 
tunes  and  makes  our  music  sweeter."  I  need  scarcely  tell 
you  that  I  felt  ashamed  of  myself.  My  heart  was  much 
comforted.  The  dark  cloud  fioated  vay,  and  sunshine 
spread  its  brightness  over  all  the  prospects  of  my  tour,  both 
in  Canada  and  Europe. 

Finding  I  could  make  no  impression  upon  the  population 
m  a  private  house  I  looked  around  for  another  place.  In  a 
few  hours  an  old  deserted  tannery  building  presented  itself. 
It  was  almost  filled  with  lumber  and  tan  bark.  Two  good 
women,  who  washed  for  the  steamboats,  offered  to  help  me 
to  clean  it  out.  They  brought  along  with  them  two 
Canadian  ^Is,  their  servants.  I  threw  off  my  coat  and 
went  to  work,  hired  a  Canadian  to  cart  some  benches,  and 
before  night  we  had  the  place  ready  for  preaching. 

The  report  circulated,  the  population  got  interested,  and 
the  next  night  I  had  a  good  congregation.  lA  few  pointed 
appeals  brought  some  of  them  to  tears.  I  cannot  give  yoa 
all  the  particulars,  but  sinners  were  awakened  diuly  and 
converted  to  God.  A  class  was  formed  of  fifty-throe  members. 
Myself  and  another  brother  went  from  b^^uBe  to  house  in 
order  to  raise  a  subscription  to  build  a  onapel,  and  succeeded 
to  the  amount  of  nearly  seven  hundred  dollars.  So,  afler 
spending  three  weeks,  and  preaching  twentynsix  sermons,  I 
bade  the  little  flock  farewell  on  the  ik  of  October,  leaving 
them  in  the  care  of  two  class-leaders.  I  had  been  only  a 
few  days  in  St.  John's,  when  I  was  invited  to  another  hotel, 
kept  by  Mrs.  Watson.    Upon  offering  to  pay  my  bill,  iho 


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T«i«M 


50 


rmST  FRUITS. 


would  not  accept  a  penny.  May  the  Lord  reward  her  in 
the  reaurrection!  She  also  cheerfully  and  generously  sub- 
scribed  to  the  chapel. 

On  the  night  of  the  8th  of  October,  I  preached  at  La 
Prairie,  a  village  on  the  banks  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  opposite 
Montreal.  There  was  a  very  graxjious  influence  during 
the  service,  and  I  trust  good  was  done.  Next  monung  I 
crossed  the  river  to  Montreal.  Hero  I  received  a  hearty 
welcome  from  many  of  my  old  friends. 

My  first  acquaintance  with  this  people  was  formgd  m 
1835,  when  about  four  hundred  sinners  were  converted  to 
God.    I  also  revisited  them  in  1837,  during  another  revival, 
and  spent  a  month.     I  waa  kindly  entertained  during  my 
stay  thia  time,  first  at  the  house  of  John  Mathewson,  Esq., 
and  then  at  the  house  of  James  Farrier,  Esq.     Precious 
families !    I  shall  long  remember  with  gratitude  their  kind- 
ness.   Spent  eighteen  days,  preached  eighteen  sermons,  and 
about  twenty  souls  were  converged  to  God.    There  were  for 
some  time,  strong  and  convincing  signs  of  an  extenave 
revival,  as  though  God  intended  to  shake  the  whole  city, 
but  the    devil  created  discord.      The   people  of    God 
were  notumte^    Some  wished  me  to  stay,  while  others 
greatly  desired  I  should  "  depart  out  of  their  coasts."  About 
this  time  the  Lord  stirred  up  the  bretiiren  at  Quebec  to  cry 
to  God  for  a  revival.    My  kind  friend,  the  Bey.  William  M. 
Harvard,  being  Superintendent,  informed  ihemthatl  was  in 
Montreal ;  and,  at  his  suggestion,  they  nnanimously  invited 
me  to  pay  them  a  visit.     My  way  being  hedged  up  most 
angularly  at  Montreal,  I  quietty  bade  them  farewell,  and 
went  aboard  a  steamer  about  nine  o'clock  on  the  mght  of 
the  27th  October.    My  heart  waa  deeply  affected  with  the 
kindness  of  many  of  my  friends ;  I  could  mention  their 
names,  but,  aa  they  are  strangers  to  you,  it  is  perhaps 


»>• 


B^ard  her  in 
nerouslj  sub- 

sached  at  La 
ence,  opposite 
aeuce  during 
zt  morning  I 
ved  a  hearty 

as  formed  in 
converted  to 
lother  revival, 
id  daring  my 
[>hew$on,  Esq., 
jq.     Precious 
kde  their  Ipnd- 
d  sermons,  and 
[here  were  for 
an  extenfflve 
le  whole  city, 
ople  of    God 
,  while  others 
oasta."  About 
Quebec  to  cry 
ty.  WiUiam  M. 
mihati  wasin 
jnously  in^ted 
dged  up  most 
L  fiEurewell,  and 
»n  the  night  of 
beted  with  the 
mentiou  their 
it  is  perhaps 


FIBST  FRUITS. 


67 


unnecessary, 
heart. 


They  are,  however,  very,  very  dear  to  my 


"  Ah  I  there  are  spirits  in  this  fretful  worM, 

Which  grow  not  old,  and  change  not  with  the  seasons." 

"When  morning  light  came,  I  foimd  I  had  mistaken  the 
vessel,  and  had  got  aboard  st  freight  steamer,  which  had 
three  vessels  m  tow ;  a  ship,  a  brig,  and  a  barge.  Every- 
thing indicated  we  were  going  to  have  a  tedious  passage. 
To  help  the  matter,  when  we  were  near  the  centre  of  lake 
St.  Peter's,  the  pilot  got  deceived  by  the  lighthouse-ship, 
which  had  dnfted  from  her  moorings,  by  a  heavy  gale,  a  few 
hours  before.  So  he  steered  by  the  false  guide,  as  some 
Christians  do  by  backsUdden  or  unconverted  ministers  ;  and 
so  get  on  the  shallows,  as  we  did.  The  ship  we  had  in  tow 
struck,  and  stuck  fast.  Finding  her  immovable,  we  were 
compelled  to  remain  in  the  lake  all  night,  and  lighten  the 
ship. 

Ilie  captain  reproached  the  pilot,  that  in  the  blaze  of  day 
he  should  run  so  blindly  out  of  the  channel.  The  poor  pilot 
laid  the  blame  on  the  light-ship,  as  Adam  did  on  Eve. 
Then  I  reflected  thus : — 

Ministers  and  old  professors,  may  be  compared  to  that 
lightship.  Two  passages  will  confirm  the  application.  Phil, 
iii.  17.  "  Brethren,  be  followers  together  of  me,  and  mark 
them  which  walk  so  as  ye  have  us  for  an  ensample."  Phil, 
ii.  16,  16.  "  That  ye  may  be  blameless  and  hamless,  the 
sons  of  God,  without  rebuke,  in  the  midst  of  a  crooked 
and  perverse  nation,  among  whom  ye  shine  as  lights  in  the 
world ;  holding  forth  the  word  of  life ;  that  I  may  rejoice 
in  the  day  of  Christ,  that  I  have  not  run  in  vaiii,  neither  la- 
boured in  vain."  An  able  writer  comments  upon  "holding 
forth  the  word  of  life,"  thus :  "  An  allusion,  some  think,  to 
those  towers  which  were  built  at  the  entrance  of  harboura,  on 


M. 


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FIRST  FRUITS. 


-which  fires  were  kept  during  the  night,  to  direct  ships  into  port. 
Genuine  Christians,  by  their  holy  lives  and  conversation,  are 
the  means  of  directing  others,  not  only  how  to  escape  thoso 
dangers  to  which  they  are  exposed  on  the  tempestuous  ocean 
of  human  life,  but  also  of  leading  them  into  the  haven  of 
eternal  aqfet^  and  reet,  '  That  I  have  not  run  in  vain.' 
This  appears  to  be  a  part  of  the  same  metaphor ;  and  alludes 
to  the  case  of  a  weather-beaten  mariner,  who  has  been 
long  tossed  on  a  tempestuous  sea,  in  hazy  weather  and  dark 
nights  ;  who  has  been  obliged  to  run  on  different  tacks,  and 
labour  intensely  to  keep  his  ship  from  foundering ;  but  is, 
at  last,  by  the  assistance  of  a  luminous  fire  on  the  top  of 
the  tower,  directed  safely  into  the  port." 

The  meamng  of  these  passages  is  evident.  The  word 
towers,  in  the  above  extract,  is  very  expressive.  I  wish  all 
the  lovers  of  Christ  were  aa  permanent.  I  have  often 
admired  the  lines, 

"  Strong  in  thy  strength  I'll  stand  a  fotrar, 
Impregnable  to  earth  or  hell." 

Alas!  they  mostly  resemble  these  floating  lights;  and, 
much  as  the  event  may  jeopardize  others,  they  are  too  often 
driven  from  their  mooring. 

Now,  I  thought,  so  longaa  they  keep  in  the  right  channel 
of  life,  in  the  position  designed  them  by  God;  their  anchor- 
age ground,  the  Bible  and  the  atonement ;  their  anchor,  the 
hope  of  eternal  life ;  faith  their  cable,  reaching  unto  that 
which  entereth  withm  the  vail ;  Heb.  vi.  19 ;  in  the  meantime 
holdmg  up  the  light  of  profession,  supported  by  a  holy  life 
and  godly  conversation;  then,  indeed,  they  are  lights  and 
guides  which  may  be  depended  upon. 

But  should  they  be  set  adrift  by  the  stormji  of  temptation, 
break  their  cable,  or  drag  their  anchor  bto  the  regiona  of 


FraST  FRUITS. 


59 


ihips  into  port, 
versatiou,  are 
>  escape  thoso 
lestuous  ocean 
the  haven  of 
run  in  vain.' 
;  and  alludes 
ho  has  been 
^er  and  dark 
»nt  tacks,  and 
ering ;  but  is, 
n  the  top  of 

;.  The  word 
I.  I  wish  all 
I  have  often 


;  lights;  and, 
are  too  often 

right  channel 
their  anchor- 
ir  anchor,  the 
ng  unto  that 
the  meantime 
»7  a  holy  life 
re  lights  and 

'>f  temptation, 
he  regions  of 


error,  keepmg  up  at  the  same  time  the  old  lamp  of  profession ; 
then,  if  we  depend  upon  and  steer  our  course  by  them,  we 
shall  most  assuredly  get  aground  upon  the  shallows  of  luko- 
warmness  and  spiritual  death,  or  upon  the  rocks  of  open 
sm,  and  make  shipwreck  of  faith  and  of  a  good  conscience. 

Now,  I  continued  to  reflect,  what  these  landmarks  should 
have  been  to  our  pilot,  the  Bible  is  designed  to  be  to  aii 
smcere  Christians.  "  Thy  word,"  says  the  Psahnist,  "is  a 
lamp  to  my  feet,  and  a  light  unto  my  path."  And,  says  St. 
Pe^r,  "  We  have  also  a  more  sure  word  of  prophecy ;  wherc- 
unto  ye  do  well  that  ye  take  heed  as  unto  a  light  thafshmeth 
in  a  dark  place,  tintfl  the  day  dawn,  and  the  day-star  arise 
m  your  hearts."  Our  pilot  should  have  tried  the  portion 
of  that  lightship,  by  the  adjacent  landmarks,  before  he  had 
ventured  to  follow  it ;  and  we  should  endeavour  to  ascertain 
the  scriptural  character  of  the  doctrines,  lives,  and  experieace, 
of  all  ministoiB  and  Christians,  who  offer  to  guide  us,  before 
we  intrust  our  souls  to  their  care.  <Jod  will  no  more  excuse 
us  for  having  been  led  astray  by  toy  of  them,  than  our 
capttun  would  the  unhappy  pMot.  "  If  the  blind  lead  the 
blind,"  says  Jesus,  "  they  shall  both  fall  mto  the  ditch," 
that  is,  mto  hell !  That  vessel  with  her  light  was  once,  and 
only  a  few  hours  ago,  in  the  best  position  she  could  occupy ;  but 
what  shall  we  say  of  those  professed  ministers  of  Christ,  and 
those  nominal  Christians,  who,  by  their  own  confession,  allow 
they  have  never  been  bom  again,  and  who  positively  deny 
that  any  man  cto  know  his  sms  forgiven ;  but  who,  at  the 
same  time,  attempt  to  direct  others  in  the  way  to  heaven  ? 

This  deceitful  lightship  occasioned  the  running  two 
vessels  aground ;  and  the  rest  had  to  tarry  beside  them 
during  a  long  and  dark  night,  while  we  served  as  beacons 
to  other  vessels,  which  passed  us  in  the  darkness.  Such 
clergymen  and  professors  rum  thousands  of  Luiiii,rtal  souls. 


tm 


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60 


FIRST  FRUITS. 


The  mghfc  becoming  cold  and  dark,  I  left  the  deck,  and 
spect  a  few  hours  in  the  main  cabin,  reading  and  writing 
very  comfortably. 

Yesterday  morning  we  again  got  under  weigh,  and  con- 
tinned  our  course  down  the  river.  Night  brought  on  bad 
weather,  with  rain  and  deep  darkness,  so  we  crept  towards 
the  shore,  and  lay  in  a  place  of  shelter  till  mormng. 

We  are  now  moving  forward,  and  hope  to  arrive  at  Quebec 
this  afternoon.  I  have  an  elegant  and  spacious  cabin  almost 
to  myself,  for  the  passengers  are  few.  My  time  is  employed 
in  writing,  reading,  and  praying.  This  season  of  reSt  is 
most  refreshing  to  my  body,  and  God  is  deepeiung  his  work 
in  my  soul. 

The  narrative  is  continued  in  the  following  letter  written 
from  the  city  of  Quebec,  Lower  Canada. 

My  last  was  dated  aboard  the  steamer  on  my  way  to  this 
ciiy.  I  landed  on  the  same  day  about  three  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon.  The  society  had  received  imformation  that  I 
had  left  Montreal  for  Quebec,  and  were  waitmg  for  me  in 
tiie  large  school-room  adjoining  the  chapel.  Brother  Selley, 
tiie  junior  preacher,  met  me  on  the  quay ;  we  walked  straight 
to  the  chapel,  where  I  preached  from,  1  John  ii.  1 — 3.  I 
received  a  moat  hearty  welcome  from  my  old  friends,  and 
from  none  more  than  from  my  warm  friend  Mr.  Harvard. 

Many  changes  have  taken  place  since  I  was  here  last. 
You  have  heard  me  speak  of  my  Quebec  home  at  Mr. 
M'Leod's.  He  and  his  dear  wife  gave  me  a  most  cordial 
welcome.  I  felt  at  home  the  moment  I  entered  their  house. 
On  retiring  to  my  room,  I  found  that  the  God  of  Jacob  had 
not  forsaken  their  dwelling.  In  a  moment  I  was  filled  with 
love  and  joy.  I  came  dov.'^i  stairs  praising  God.  Mrs. 
M'L.  looked  at  me,  but  Bpid  notlung.    The  Spirit  of  God 


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the  deck,  and 
ig  and  vrritrng 

reigh,  and  con^ 
brought  on  bad 
)  crept  towards 
loming. 

rrive  at  Quebec 
IS  cabin  almost 
me  is  employed 
ason  of  resl  is 
tening  his  work 

5  letter  written 

my  way  to  this 
o'clock  in  the 
rmation  that  I 
iting  for  me  in 
Brother  Selley, 
walked  straight 
1  u.  1—3.  I 
}ld  friends,  and 
[r.  Harvard, 
was  here  last. 
home  at  Mr. 
a  most  cordial 
red  their  house, 
d  of  Jacob  had 
was  filled  with 
g  God.  Mrs. 
I  Spirit  of  God 


was  working  most  powerfully  upon  her  soul.     She  iad  lost 
the  blessing  of  entire   sanctification ;  but  a  few  days  after 
this  she  obtained  it  again.     She  then  told  me,  "When  you 
came  into  our  house,  I  was  anxious  to  see  whether  you  stiU 
retained  the  holiness  and  simplicity  you  had  when  here  last. 
I  was  not  quite  sure  about  it;  but  when  you  came  down 
stairs,  praising  God,  I  was  then  convinced  that  years  had 
made  no  change  in  your  religious  character.    I  was  greatiy 
troubled  at  my  own  conscious  loss.     My  spirit  had  no  rest 
till  I  told  you  my  unhappy  state  of  mind.     The  Lord 
assisted  you  in  spreading  my  case  before  him,  and  now  I 
have  regained  al'  I  had  lost."    I  rejoice  to  tell  you  that 
there  are  many  such  heavenly-mmded  spirits  in  this  city. 
We  have  a  precious  society  here.    I  say  wb,  because  the 
Methodist  people  are  onb  the  worid  over.      The  Quebec 
Methodists,  however,  are  the  most  loving  people  I  have  ever 
met,  and  the  most  devoted  to  God. 

We  have  had  a  severe  conflict  smce  my  arrival.  During 
the  first  few  weeks  the  devil  threatened  to  drive  us  from  the 
field.  Sinners  were  as  hard  as  marble.  It  seemed  as  if  we 
could  make  no  impression  whatever  upon  them.  As  this  was 
no  new  scene  to  me,  I  felt  confident,  if  the  people  of  God 
would  only  stand  by  me  in  mighty  prayer,  the  arm  of  God 
would  be  made  bare  in  the  conversion  of  sinners. 

They  did  stand  by  me,  nor  did  they  flinch  a  momeu"  till 
we  had  the  victory.  The  weapons  of  our  warfare  were  "  not 
carnal,  but  mighty  iihrough  God,  to  the  pulling  down  of 
strongholds;  casting  down  ima^ations,  and  every  high 
thing  that  would  exalt  itself  against  the  knowledge  of 
Christ.*'  Ten  sermons  a  week,  with  many  exhortations, 
were  discharged  against  the  dark  works  of  the  devil.  Many 
sinners,  who  were  awakened  when  I  was  here  in  1836,  re- 
membered  their  old  terrors,  and  avoided  our  meetings,  and 


r 


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FIRST  FRUITS. 


did  what  thoy  could  to  hinder  others.  Wretched  souls !  I 
believe  that  some  of  them  were  kept  out  of  hell  all  theso 
years  that  they  might  have  an  opportunity  to  see  and  feel 
the  power  of  a  revival  in  1840.  The  Lord,  however,  drove 
sinners  under  the  word.  The  burning  truths  of  God  wero 
thrown  into  their  intrenchments  incessantly.  Day  and  night 
they  were  cannonaded.  Many  of  the  wicked  were  wounded, 
and  fled  in  terror,  crymg  out,  "  They  are  mad !  they  are 
mad!"  but  their  places  were  filled  up  by  others.  Hard 
things  were  spoken  against  ua ;  but  they  did  not  move  us. 
The  people  of  God  carried  victory  in  their  very  faces.  It 
was  a  scene  of  awful  grandeur.  When  their  faith  was  at 
a  climax,  oh!  how  they  sang, — 

•>  We  are  soldiers,  fighting  for  onr  Ood, 
Let  trembling  cowards  fly ; 
We  'U  stand  nnsholien,  firm  and  fixed, 
For  Christ  to  live  and  die. 

"  Let  devils  rage,  and  hell  assail, 
We  '11  fight  our  passage  through; 
Let  foes  unite,  let  friends  desert. 
We  '11  seize  the  crown,  our  due." 

At  last  there  arose  a  general  cry  among  the  wicked.  Sin- 
ners were  out  to  pieces  on  every  hand ;  and  since  then  tho 
revival  has  spread  among  the  people  with  astomshing  power. 
High  and  low,  rich  and  poor,  learned  and  unlearned,  old 
and  young,  are  seen  at  the  altar  of  God  pleading  for  mercy. 
About  the  lame  of  our  hardest  conflict,  as  I  was  standing 
witlun  the  communion  rail,  looldng  upwards  to  the  gallery, 
I  noticed  two  young  mex  trifling.  I  learned  afterwards  that 
the  cause  was  this :  As  I  was  looldng  up,  one  of  the  young 
men  said  to  the  other,  "  I  should  not  be  surprised  if  that 
ohap,"  meaning  me,  "  will  come  up  here."  i 

This  caused  the  other  sinner  to  hurst  into  a  laugh.    In- 
pAantly  it  was  suggested  to  my  mind,  "  Go  up,  go  up."     I 


WIIJi'Ji.  muuinw 


timtKmm 


tinrmim't, 


tchcd  souls!  I 
f  hell  all  theso 
to  SCO  and  feci 
however,  drove 
IS  of  God  wero 

Day  and  night 
I  were  wounded, 
mad!    they  are 

others.  Hard 
id  not  move  us. 
irery  faces.  It 
iir  faith  was  at 


e  wicked.  Sm- 
id  siace  then  the 
itonishing  power, 
i  unlearned,  old 
ading  for  mercy. 
I  was  standing 
J  to  the  gallery, 
d  afterwards  that 
me  of  the  young 
surprised  If  that 

'»  ; 

t 

to  a  laugh.    In- 
up,  go  up."     I 


FIRST  FRUITS. 


63 


did  BO,  and  the  one  who  had  made  the  remark,  looking  over 
his  shoulder,  as  I  appeared  on  the  gallery,  exclaimed,  "  1 
say,  if  he  is  not  coming ! " 

I  advanced  rapidly,  and  they  could  not  get  away.  I  put 
my  hands  upon  them,  and  urged  them  to  flee  from  the  wrath 
to  come.  The  one  who  had  been  the  chief  speaker  was 
grsatly  a^tated,  and  the  next  night  was  at  the  altar  in  great 
distress.  He  obtained  mercy  from  God,  and  has  joined 
the  society.  What  the  result  will  be  with  the  other  I  know 
not. 

I  was  informed  the  other  day,  that  an  oflScer  of  the  gar- 
rison came  to  one  of  our  meetings,  to  see  what  truth  there 
was  in  the  strange  reports  he  had  heard.  There  was  a 
powerful  influence  from  God  upon  the  people  that  night. 
Poor  fellow !  he  felt  it  also,  but  got  frightened  and  fled  from 
the  chapel.  He  told  a  friend  afterwards,  "  Why,  Sir,  I  was 
sitting  m  the  congregation,  and  I  saw  that  man,"  meaning 
me,  "  coming.  He  put  his  two  hands  upon  a  man's  head, 
and  prayed  over  him,  and  then  took  him  to  the  altar.  Well, 
Sir,  he  came  again  and  did  the  same  to  another ;  and  then 
to  another ;  and  he  was  conung  straight  to  do  the  same  to 
me  ;  but.  Sir,  I  started  from  my  seat,  and  ran  out  of  the 
chapel,  and  along  the  street  as  hard  as  I  could ;  a  thing  I 
have  never  yet  done  before  an  enemy."  So  true  is  that 
saying,  "  The  wicked  flee  when  no  man  pursueth." 

The  devil  is  losmg  his  servants  daily.  A  few  nights  ago 
a  man  of  extensive  business  was  present  at  the  chapel.  His 
wife,  a  few  days  before,  had  been  converted  to  God.  Sho 
had  long  been  a  member  of  the  Church  of  England,  but  had 
never  been  "  bom  again."  He  was  very  uneasy  about  ha 
soul ;  but  the  devil  would  not  let  him  come  forward  to  be 
prayed  for.  When  the  meeting  was  over,  and  we  were  al- 
most worn  out,  he  came  forward  to  the  altar  to  tell  m^  lu^w 


i.  ■ 


\ 


n 


C4 


FIRST  mUITS. 


hard  Lis  heart  was.  Now,  thouglit  I,  the  devil  has  kept 
this  poor  sinner  'n  his  seat  all  this  time,  because  he  knew 
that  ii  he  bhouia  come  forward  to  bo  prayed  for,  he  would 
never  get  out  of  our  hai.  Is  till  he  was  converted  to  God ; 
and  now  the  devil  has  permitted  him  to  come,  because  ho 
thinks  we  are  too  tired  to  be^  a  second  prayer  meeting.  I 
called  to  the  brethren ;  they  were  on  the  spot  immediately ; 
the  sinner  was  surrounded  with  praying  men :  "  Now,  down 
upon  your  knees,  man,  and  cry  for  mercy."  The  second 
prayer  meeting  continued  till  late ;  the  devil  lost  him.  Next 
day  ho  had  some  doubts,  and  ho  sent  a  message  to  me,  say- 
ing, that  he  wanted  to  converse  on  the  witness  of  the  Spirit. 
I  requested  him  to  be  present  at  the  afternoon  sermon,  and, 
after  which,  I  would  converse  with  him.  He  attended  ;  but 
when  the  sermon  was  over  I  founa  iiim  happy.  God  had 
explained  the  doctrine  to  liim  during  the  discourse,  by  send- 
ing his  Spirit  mto  Hs  heart,  crying,  Abba,  Father. 

I  think  about  one  hundred  and  fifty  persons  have  passed 
from  death  unto  life.  I  understand  that  about  twenty 4 ve 
believers  have  experienced  the  blessedness  of  those  who  are 
pure  in  heart. 

A  few  evenings  ago,  I  heard  a  holy  woman  sing  the  fol- 
lowing lines,  with  heaven  beaming  on  her  countenance.  I 
know  not  whether  you  have  ever  seen  them,  but  they  were 
quite  new  to  me. 

»  l%er6  remaineth  iherrfore  areitlotie  ptople  of  (7od."— Heb.  It.  t. 
ToiiK— "Home,  swEKT  HOME." 

My  re»t  is  in  heaven,  my  rest  is  not  here, 
Tlien  why  should  I  murmnr  when  trials  are  near; 
Be  hashed  my  dark  spirit,  the  worst  that  can  com« 
But  shortens  thy  journey,  and  hastens  thee  home. 

It  is  not  for  me  to  be  seeking  my  bliss. 
And  buildin)?  my  hopes  in  a  region  like  this ; 
I  look  for  a  city  which  Imnds  have  not  piled; 
I  pant  for  a  country  by  sin  undeftlod. 


■lAhMKMfiibaMMpwiMMMUMi 


MiiiMi 


dovil  has  kept 
cause  he  kuew 
A  for,  ho  would 
rerted  to  God ; 
ne,  because  ho 
'er  meeting.  I 
)t  immediately ; 
:  "  Now,  down 
"  The  second 
lost  liim.  Next 
age  to  me,  say- 
is  of  the  Spirit. 
)n  sermon,  and, 
>  attended ;  but 
)py.  God  had 
lourso,  by  send- 
ither. 

ns  have  passed 
out  twenty'^ve 
f  those  who  are 

an  sing  the  fol- 
:ountenance.  I 
,  but  they  were 

*."— Heb.  It.  •. 


near; 
1  come 
lome. 


nRST  FRUITS. 

The  tliom  and  the  thiftle  wound  me  may  grow  j 
I  would  not  lie  dowu  upon  roses  below : 
I  ask  not  a  portion,  I  seek  not  roy  rest, 
Till  1  find  them  for  ever  in  Jesus's  breost. 

Afflictions  may  damp  me,  but  cannot  destroy ; 
One  glimpse  of  his  love  turns  them  all  into  joy ; 
And  the  bitterest  tears,  if  he  smile  but  on  them, 
Like  dew  in  the  sunshine,  torn  diamond  or  gem. 

Let  doubt  then  and  danger  my  progress  oppose, 
They  only  make  heaven  more  sweet  at  0»e  olosa  | 
Come  joy,  or  come  sorrow,  wbate'er  may  befall, 
One  hour  with  my  God,  will  make  np  for  it  aU. 

A  scrip  on  my  back,  and  a  staff  in  my  hand ; 
I  march  on  iu  haste  through  an  enemy's  land; 
The  road  may  be  rough,  but  it  cannot  be  long ; 
And  I  '11  smooth  it  with  hope,  and  I  '11  cheer  it  with 

The  above  is  my  experience.    My  soul  is  happy. 


6* 


65 


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tkmmmmm^in,.;. 


'■^ 


CHAPTER   VII. 

REVIVAL    SCENES    IN   LOWER    CANiDA. 

In  this  chapter,  wo  shall  still  see  Mr.  Caughey  nobly  ful- 
filling tho  objects  of  his  spiritual  mission  in  Lower  Canada, 
with  a  success  so  peculiar  and  unbroken  as  to  give  full  proof 
of  tho  heavenly  calling  ho  had  received.  The  letters  now 
to  be  inserted  were  written  from  the  city  of  Montreal. 

At  five  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  the  17th  of  January, 
1841, 1  left  Quebec  for  this  city.  Three  sleighs,  filled  with 
our  friends,  accompanied  mo  twelve  miles  out  of  the  city, 
where  we  all  took  breakfast  together.  In  February,  1835, 
when  the  Rev.  Matthew  Lang  and  I  visited  Quebec,  for  the 
first  time,  the  brethren,  hearing  of  our  commg.  In  imitation 
of  those  at  Rome,  who  met  St.  Paul  at  "the  three  taverns," 
came  out  twelve  miles  to  meet  us,  and  escorted  us  into  their 
noble  and  beautiful  city.  You  will  not,  therefore,  wonder 
that  my  heart  is  warmly  attached  to  the  Quebec  people.  I 
only  spent  twenty-one  days  with  them  on  my  first  visit,  but 
twelve  weeks  with  them  this  time;  preached  nearly  one 
hundred  sermons,  besides  exhorting,  times  innumerable.  I 
also  gave  them  a  sermon  on  Temperance  ;  and,  m  the  hall 
of  the  Parliament  House,  I  delivered  an  address  on  tho 
expediency  of  total  abstmence  from  intoxicating  liquors. 
The  Governor  General  very  politely  granted  us  tho  hall  for 
66 


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..j.n,^ 


REVIVAL    SC2NE3   IN  LOWER  CANADA. 


67 


ly  nobly  ful- 
rer  Canada, 
re  full  proof 
letters  now 
breal. 

}f  January, 
I,  filled  with 
)f  the  city., 
aary,  1835, 
beo,  for  the 
In  imitation 
se  taverns," 
IS  into  their 
•re,  wonder 
people.  I 
it  visit,  but 
nearly  one 
aerable.  I 
in  the  hall 
ess  on  the 
ctg  liqaors. 
ihe  hall  for 


the  occasion.  Manj  at  this  time  became  members  of  the 
I'Quoy.oc  Younj];  Men's  Total  Abstinence  Society,"  wliich 
is  in  a  very  flouvishing  condition  ;  and  thus  it  over  shall  bo 
with  any  Sociotv,  founded  on  riff/U  j^rineipleay  if  the  mem- 
berp  act  coimdently,  and  carry  out  those  principles  with 
vigor,  to  their  legitimate  results. 

"Pacts  are  stubborn  thbgs;"  and  many  of  the  anti- 
temporanco  men  found  them  so  that  night.  I  told  them,, 
first .  A  coroner's  jury  has  lately  been  held  in  your  city  upon 
tbd  body  of  a  female,  who  has  been  disinterred  for  the 
purpose  of  an  mqut  3t,  under  a  suspicion  of  murder ;  but 
death  by  intoxication  was  the  final  verdict.  The  matter, 
however,  did  not  rest  here ;  an  inquest  has  been  held  in 
another  quai-ter,  namely,  in  the  conscience  of  a  liquor  seller, 
a  professor  of  religion,  and  what  was  the  verdict  there  ? 
That  the  woman  came  to  her  untimely  death  by  liquor  which 
she  habitually  got  at  his  shop.  The  man  cpmc  to  me  a  few 
mornings  since  and  inqmrcd  what  he  must  do. 

Secondly :  A  few  weeks  since  a  company  of  men  were  work- 
ing on  a  building  in  the  Lower  Town.  A  dram  dealer,  close 
by,  regardless  of  the  danger  to  which  the  men  were  exposed, 
supplied  them  v  ith  drink.  Toward  night  one  of  them,  about 
half  intoxliuled,  tt'amble<?,  E,nd  fell  from  the  roof,  and  was  a 
corpse  in  a  few  momenta,  leaving  a  widow  and  eeven  small 
childrezj. 

Thirdly :  Several  autln-zrlzed  reports  have  been  placed  in 
my  bands  wiuhin  a  few  hours.  One  of  them  states  that  you 
have  six  hnadred  places  in  your  city  where  iatoxicating 
liquors  are  sold.  Aj\other  (your  coroner's  report)  informs 
us,  that  during  four  mdnths  of  3840,  verdicts  were  given  of 
thiitr-nine  doaths  occaainned  by  intoxication. 

FourtJ<ly :  An  extract  from  the  booki  of  your  jaJd,  signed 
by  the  jajli'>r,  eiates,  that  from  January  to  September  (nine 


9mh^ 


:  -  ';rV3^rf-'*"*-  '-'■"f^'''^*'''^- 


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months)  there  were  committed  fourteen  hundred  crmdnals ; 
and  that  eleven  hundred  and  forty-eight  of  them  had  been 
committed  for  crimes  wluch  were  clearly  traceable  to  intem- 
perance. It  seems  the  other  two  hundred  and  fifty-two  were 
put  down  upon  the  list  of  «  unknown ; "  tiiat  is,  the  cause  of 
their  comnutment  could  not  be  assigned  to  intoxication ;  but  it 
was  added,  there  could  be  Httle  doubt,  were  their  history  as 
weU  known  as  the  others,  it  would  be  found  that  their  cnmes 
originated  from  the  same  source. 

The  Lord  enabled  me  to  be  very  bold  and  faithful,  as  there 
were  many  of  the  Uquor  trade  present.     I  cried,  "  He  that 
hath  an  oar  to  hear,  let  bim  hear."     Behold  the  domgs  of 
your  six  hundred  dram  shops  and  taverns.     They  have  sent 
more  than  eleven  hundred  persons  to  prison  in  nine  months 
and  have  killed  tlurty-ninc.    I  then  made  a  supposition,  thak 
a  few  individuals,  for  the  sake  of  making  money,  should 
open  a  number  of  places  for  amusement,  of  a  very  fascinatmg 
kind ;   and  that  such  establishments,  while  they  were  the 
means  of  sendiog  eleven  hundred  and  forty-eight  men  and 
TTomen  to  prison  in  nine  months,  killed  thirty-nine  in  the 
half  of  that  time,  how  long  would  an  outraged  commumty 
suffer  Buci  horrible  places  to  be  open?     Would  not  the 
strong  am  of  the  law  close  them  for  ever  V    But  what  have  I 
seen  in  your  city  papers  lately  ?     Oh,  only  thifl,  that  these 
wretched  men  are  notified  to  attend  upon  a  certam  day  to 
have  their  lieenaea  renewed!     I  then  related  an  amusmg 
circumstance  that  happened  in  the  le^latoreof  Vermont, 
some  time  since,  which  showed  that  tiie  minds  of  statesme;; 
are  beginiung  to  awake  to  the  horrible  evils  and  inconsiaten 
ciesof  the  license  law.    A  bill  had  been  V-ought  into  the 
house,  and  was  taken  up  for  the  third  reading.    One  section 
thereof  enacted  a  penalty  for  drunkenness.     A  member 
iiose,  and  moved  a  commitment  of  the  bill  for  an  amend 


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ndred  crmunala ; 
f  them  had  been 
'aceable  to  intem- 
md  fifty-two  were 
it  is,  the  cause  of 
toxication;  but  it 
•e  their  history  as 
.  that  their  crimes 

i  faithful,  as  there 
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They  have  sent 
on  in  mne  months 
a  supposition,  thai 
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a  very  fascinating 
le  they  were  the 
rty-eight  men  and 
thirty-nine  in  the 
traged  community 

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ily  this,  that  these 
)u  a  certain  day  to 
elated  an  amusing 
lature  of  Vermont, 
lunds  of  statesmen 
ils  and  inconsisten 
1  b'^ught  into  the 
ding.  One  section 
ness.  A  member 
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REVIVAL    8CEKES  IN  LOWER  CANADA. 


C9 


i 


tnent,  by  erasing  the  section  against  drunkards.  He  said, 
he  objected  to  the  punishing  of  drunkards  by  statute,  and  at 
the  same  time  protecting  the  traffickers  in  ardent  spirits  by 
legislative  enactments ;  that  it  seemed  to  lum  like  holding 
out  one  arm  of  the  law  to  present  the  cup,  and  the  other 
to  punish  the  acceptance  of  it.  As  much  as  to  say,  "Hold 
out  the  cup,  and  if  it  is  accepted,  it  will,  by  a  sure 
process,  lead  to  drunkenness,  and  then  punish  the  drunk- 
ards." The  Vermont  Legislators  saw  the  dilemma,  and  it  waa 
thrown  back  into  the  hands  of  the  ori^nal  mover  for  an 
amendment. 

G^here  was  an  amusing,  perhaps  I  should  say,  a  melan- 
choly  circumstance  occurred  at  the  close  of  this  meeting.  If 
it  was  mournful,  it  was,  however,  to  me  an  eiadence  that  the 
man's  conscience  vibrated,  in  some  degree,  under  the  inr 
fluence  of  that  nughty  principle  which  swayed  the  minds  of 
the  apostles  and  primitive  Christians :  "  It  is  good  neither  to 
eat  flesh,  nor  to  drink  wine,  nor  anything  whereby  thy 
brother  stumbleth,  or  is  offended,  or  is  made  weak."  Rom. 
xiv.  21.  A  man,  evidently  under  powerful  convictions  re- 
specting the  soul  and  body  destroying  evils  of  intoxicating 
drinks,  arose  from  his  seat,  seemingly  witii  a  determination 
to  join  the  teetotal  ranks.  He  ^Talked  toward  the  table 
where  the  sheet  was  laid  for  signatures,  but  several  persons 
were  waiting  to  sign,  and  he  had  to  pause  a  little.  He  was 
greatly  a^tated,  and,  I  believe,  felt  himself  on  the  very 
brink  of  a  Rubicon  that  would  decide  lus  habits  through  life. 
A  friend  of  mine  stood  near  him,  and  heard  the  'oUowing 
soliloquy :  "  Wt  ,  I  shall  not  join  to-night.  I  have  a  bottle 
at  home,  and  a  little  in  it ;  I  shall  drink  that  before  I  sign 
the  pledge ;  but  I  declare,  had  I  drank  it  before  I  came  to 

tius  meeting,  I 1  should  have  signed  the  pledge  this 

night."    So  he  darted  out  of  the  house,  under  the  influence 


I 


lilMiilU.. 


mmmimmMtmlmmMm 


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■.<iiS^(».>.4ij..;  'I  — 


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of  quite  a  difiFerent  principle  from  that  which  St.  Paul  felt ; 
perhaps  not  unlike  the  Cainite  one,  "  Am  I  my  brother's 
keeper  ?  " 

Small  as  the  thing  may  appear,  and  simple  as  was  that 
test  of  principle,  yet  it  may  be  found  hereafter,  that  the  lit- 
tle that  remained  in  that  "bottle  at  home,"  stood  connected 
with  loss  of  character,  a  rmned  constitution,  a  drunkard's 
grave,  or  his  future  wretehedness  in  hell.  "Behold  how 
great  a  matter,  a  little  fire  Idndleth." 

The  last  night  I  preached  in  Quebec  was  an  aflFecting  time 
It  was  with  much  difficulty  I  could  get  out  of  the  chapel,  and 
away  from  the  young  converts.  "  How  strong  the  affection 
of  a  new-bom  soul !"  After  breakfast  I  conmiended  the 
little  party,  to  which  I  ha\e  already  alluded,  to  God,  and 
rode  on  to  St.  Ann's,  fifty  nules.  Here  I  was  met  by 
Mr.  H.,  of  Quebec,  who  carried  me  in  his  sleigh  to  his 
father's  house.  A  singular  ride  it  was.  Part  of  the  way 
ran  over,  and  along,  tremendous  snow-drifts,  till  we  de- 
scended upon  the  Batascou  river,  and  scudded  along  on  its 
ice-bound  surface  twelve  nules.  Here  night  overtook  us, 
and  we  got  bewildered,  /.fter  wandering  up  and  down, 
looking  for  a  path  to  the  shore  and  uplands,  we  espied  some 
persons  in  the  distance,  and  by  hallooing  we  attracted  their 
attention.  By  their  assistance  we  ascended  the  bank,  and 
through  a  wild  country 

"  Of  hill  and  dale,  heaped  into  one  expanse 
or  marbled  snow,  as  far  as  eye  can  ^weep, 
With  a  bine  crust  of  ice.tmbonnded  glaied." 


We  arrived  at  lus  father's  house  about  niae  o'clock  at  night. 
The  motion  of  the  sleigh  at  mght,  with  nothing  before  my 
eyes  but  ice  and  snow,  brought  on  something  like  seasick- 
ness.   I  was  extremely  ill  when  I  alighted.    The  Lord  gave 


3t.  Paul  felt; 
my  brother's 

as  was  that 
',  that  the  lit- 
lod  connected 
a  drunkard's 
'Behold  how 

iffectmg  time 
Q  chapel,  and 

the  affection 
nmended  the 

to  God,  and 
was  met  by 
sleigh  to  his 
ft  of  the  way 
,  till  we  de- 

along  on  its 

overtook  us, 
p  and  down, 
3  espied  some 
ttracted  their 
Ihe  bank,  and 


lock  at  mgbt. 

ig  before  my 

like  searsick* 

!he  Lord  gavo 


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71 


me  a  good  night's  rest,  and  I  awoke  in  the  moj-ning  quite 
well  and  happy. 

A  messenger  went  out  through  the  settlement  announcing 
that  a  Methodist  clergyman,  from  the  United  States,  had 
arrived,  and  would  preach  within  an  hour.  The  poor  peo- 
ple, who  were  hungry  for  the  bread  of  life,  were  soon  as- 
sembled, to  whom  I  expounded  the  tenth  chapter  of  the  Acta 
of  the  Apostles.  It  was  affecting  to  see  with  what  eager- 
ness they  devoured  every  word.  Within  a  few  minutes  of 
the  conclusion  of  the  discourse,  an  astonishing  influence  came 
down  upon  all  present.  Nothing  was  to  be  seen  but  weeping 
on  every  side.  We  fell  upon  our  knees  and  poured  out  our 
souls  to  God.  There  was  very  Uttle  noise,  but  the  sobbing 
and  weeping  were  .onderful.  I  paced  the  floor  on  my 
knees,  encouraging  each  trembling  sinner  to  rely  upon  the 
atonement  for  the  forgiveness  of  sins.  Lord  Jesus  remem- 
ber these  sheep  in  the  wilderness !  We  had  hard  parting ; 
but  farewells  were  interchanged,  probably  never  to  be  re- 
peated. We  then  rode  on  to  Three  Rivers,  without  any 
accident,  other  than  a  thorough  summerset  in  a  snow-drift. 
I  threw  out  my  left  arm  to  break  the  fall,  buried  it  for  my 
pains  deep  in  the  snow,  and  we  lay  sprawling  for  a  tune  I.^ 
the  shapeless  drift.  Our  fine  horse  stood  perfectly  still  till 
we  got  through  our  undulating  motions ;  and  after  getting 
all  "  to  rights,"  wo  started  forward  in  good  spirits,  though  in 
continual  danger  of  another  capsize.  A  previous  upset  of 
this  kind  was  more  disastrous.  As  I  was  riding  along  in  my 
sleigh,  wrapped  in  Buffalo  skins,  I  came  opposite  a  respectable 
looking  man,  standing  by  a  fence.  He  asked  liberty  to  ride 
with  me  a  short  distance,  which  I  readily  granted,  hopmg  I 
might  have  an  opportunity  of  talking  to  him  about  his  soul. 
No  sooher  was  he  seated  than  I  found  I  had  a  drunken 
man  for  a  companion.     On  challenging  his  jug,  ho  sai'l, 


■i 


.Jk.^ 


72 


REVIVAL    SCENES  IN   LOWER  CANADA. 


"My  vfife  Bont  me  to  the  store  for  molasses,  but  I  have 
got  more  falls  since  I  left  the  store  than  the  molasses  are 
worth."  I  could  well  believe  him,  poor  fellow;  but  the  fault 
was  more  in  his  head  than  in  his  treacherous  feet. 

I  no  sooner  began  to  talk  to  him  about  his  soul,  and  the 
day  of  judgment,  than  my  mare  undertook  to  show  she 
could  play  '  .imken  trick  without  cither  rum  or  molasses. 
Away  she  w^ent  down  the  hiU,  tumbling  head-foremost,  till 
she  lay  stretched  on  the  snow.  In  the  meantime,  the 
drunkard  and  myself  had  a  comfortable  summerset  together ; 
buSalo  skins,  portmanteaus,  molasses  and  jug,  whirled  into 
the  ditch  along  with  us,  the  drunkard's  voice  grumbling  out 
as  we  performed  our  evolutions,  "  The  day  of  judgment, 
indeed ! "  The  beast  lay  very  quietly  till  we  got  out  of 
the  ditch.  The  sleigh  was  broken,  and  we  were  some  dis- 
tance from  any  house,  so  I  had  to  harness  myself  to  it, 
and  endeavoured  to  drag  it  alo?g  slowly ;  the  drunkard  doing 
his  best  behind,  pushing  forward  or  pulling  back,  in  strict 
accordance  with  the  known  laws  of  gravitation ;  but  he  was 
perfectly  sincere  in  his  endeavours  to  help  me  forward.  At 
last  we  arrived  at  a  house  on  a  hill,  which  turned  out  to  be 
his  own,  and  a  very  respectable  place  it  was.  I  found  he 
was  a  farmer,  in  good  circumstances.  His  wife  was  sorely 
ashamed  of  him.  I  tinkered  up  my  sleigh,  and  got  ready 
for  a  start.  He  ran  into  the  house  for  my  whip,  but  on 
coming  back,  the  alcohol  drove  him  along  with  such  velocity 
that  he  lost  his  balance,  and  came  down  with  a  terrible  crash 
on  the  ground,  which  was  frozen  as  hard  as  metal.  "Ah ! " 
said  I,  "the  way  of  the  transgressor  is  hard."  I  gavo 
him  a  few  words  of  advice,  which  he  seemed  to  feel,  and 
departed.  Who  can  tell  but  this  event  may  be  the  means  of 
his  conversion  to  God  ? 

We  arrived  at  Three  ^vers,  where  I  preached  from  the 


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DA. 

!S,  but  I  have 
)  molasses  are 
;  but  the  fault 
feet. 

)  soul,  and  the 
c  to  show  she 
u  or  molasses, 
d-foremost,  till 
meantime,  the 
jrset  together ; 
;,  whirled  into 
grumbling  out 
of  judgment, 
we  got  out  of 
rere  some  dis- 
myself  to  it, 
Irunkard  doing 
back,  in  strict 
a ;  but  he  was 
forward.  At 
■ned  out  to  be 
I.  I  found  he 
rife  was  sorely 
and  got  ready 
whip,  but  on 
i  such  velocity 
terrible  crash 
etal.  "Ah!" 
•d."  I  gave 
1  to  feel,  and 
!  the  means  of 

shed  from  the 


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78 


second  verse  of  the  hundredth  Psalm.  After  service,  I  waa 
conducted  to  see  a  very  aged  minister  of  the  Church  of 
England,  —  a  most  venerable  and  patriarchal  looking  man. 
If  I  recollect-  aright,  he  is  ninety  years  of  age,  but  seems  in 
fuU  possession  of  all  his  faculties.  He  was  sent  out  as  a 
clergyman  to  New  York,  by  one  of  the  English  bishops,  when 
the  United  States  were  British  Colonies.  We  had  a  very 
mteresting  conversation.  "  I  spent,"  said  he,  "  an  eveung 
with  Mr.  Wesley,  before  I  sailed  for  America.  On  taking 
my  leave  that  night,  he  presented  me  with  Ms  Notes  on  the 
New  Testament,  in  two  volumes."  He  showed  me  the 
books,  which  he  had  preserved  with  great  care.  When  rising 
to  depart,  I  asked  his  blessmg.  He  arose,  and  with  great  dig- 
nity, placing  his  hands  upon  my  head,  with  a  faltering  voice, 
prayed,  "  May  the  blesang  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son, 
and  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  be  with  thee,  henceforth,  and 
forever!" 

An  old  Scotch  divine  has  said,  "  It  is  one  of  the  best  sightu 
to  see  an  old  disciple ;  to  see  silver  hairs  adorned  with  gol- 
den virtues."  How  much  more,  to  see  an  aged  minister  of 
the  Lord  Jesus ;  one  fairly  worn  out  in  his  Master's  cause ! 

Next  morning  I  lost  my  passage  in  the  stage,  through  the 
carelessness  of  the  agent.  After  considerable  trouble  and 
loss  of  time,  he  was  compelled  to  "  n^f  vp"  &  sleigh  and 
send  me  off  alone.  I  bade  farewell  to  Mr.  H.,  who  seemed 
detenmned  not  to  rest  without  "  the  knowledge  of  salvation, 
by  the  remisrion  of  sins."  We  started,  and  the  driver  waa 
resolved  to  overtake  the  stage ;  but  common  sense  should 
have  forbidden  the  thought.  Sometimes  we  had  three  horses 
running  Indian  file,  one  before  the  other,  and  they  went  at  ai 
tremendoHS  raio,  —  now  along  huge  snow-drifts,  then  down 
on  the  iao  >f  the  St.  Lawrence,  and  agam  on  the  high  landi, 

7 


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il  ■■ 


^ -^^t*i  wi  ttmmmmwmBammKtmi 


~ -.--'Aati^i^  - 


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REVIVAL    SCENES  IN  LOWER  CANADA. 


goided  only  in  our  course  by  small  evergreens  stuck  down  in 
the  snow  at  regular  distances.  I  expected  every  moment 
a  complete  upset ;  but  no,  we  were  often  very  near  it,  but 
the  expert  Canadian  always  contrived  to  throw  his  body 
60  far  on  the  opposite  side  as  to  maintain  the  balance  of 
power ;  and  I  breathed  freely  again,  muttering,  "  Oh !  wo 
were  nearly  gone  that  time;  now  for  another  hairbreadth 
escape." 

At  last  I  had  so  much  confidence  in  the  driver  as  to  bo 
perfectly  easy ;  a»  matter  how  hazardous  the  enterprise  in 
wWch  he  was  involved,  he  always  came  off  victorious.  Tho 
Canadian  cariole  has  two  horns  in  front ;  and  as  the  driver 
ieldom  sits,  he  is  ready  for  any  emergency.  He  is  never 
involved  in  a  dilemma  between  the  two  horns  ;  he  knows  one 
must  be  right ;  that  one  is  grasped  in  a  moment,  as  if  by  in- 
stinct, and  upon  this  he  hangs  with  desperation.  He  eyes 
tho  danger  from  afar,  and  at  the  crisis,  quick  as  lightning, 
he  dexterously  strings  to  windward,  and,  in  spite  of  the  most 
desperate  circumstances,  keeps  the  sleigh  on  its  runners. 

About  eight  o'clock  in  the  eveiung,  we  arrived  at  Mon- 
treal, ninety  miles  from  Three  Rivers,  and  one  hundred  and 
eighty  from  Quebec.  The  dear  brethren  at  Montreal,  re- 
gretting some  of  the  movements  of  last  October,  were  now 
fully  ready  for  a  revival.  The  leaders'  meeting  had  ^ven 
me  a  unanimous  invitation  to  reviat  their  city,  which  I  ac- 
cepted before  leaving  Quebec;  promising,  however,  to 
iremain  only  twelve  days,  and  then  proceed  to  Kingston, 
Upper  Canada. 

They  had  already  commenced  a  protracted  meeting,  in 
the  large  school-room,  underneath  the  chapel,  and  were  in 
a  fine  state  of  feeling.  I  advised  them  to  light  up  their 
chapel  every  night,  and  convince  the  public,  they  were  not 
ashamed  of  a  protracted  meeting,  nor  cf  a  real  revival  of 


wmUsi 


DA. 

I  stuck  down  in 
every  moment 
-y  near  it,  but 
irow  his  body 
■ho  balance  of 
ng,  "  Oh !  wo 
ter  hairbreadth 

[river  as  to  be 
3  enterprise  in 
ctorious.  The 
1  as  the  driver 

He  is  never 
;  he  knows  one 
nt,  as  if  by  in- 
ion.  He  eyes 
I  as  lightning, 
ite  of  the  most 
its  runners, 
rived  at  Mon- 
le  hundred  and 

Montreal,  re- 
»ber,  were  now 
iting  had  ^ven 
y,  which  I  ac- 
;,  however,  to 
i  to  Kingston, 

ed  meeting,  in 
1,  and  were  in 
light  up  their 
,  they  were  not 
real  revival  of 


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76 


the  work  of  God.  They  did  so,  and  our  congregations  in- 
creased every  night.  Soon  the  arm  of  God  was  revealed  in 
the  awakening  of  smners ;  but  the  converting  power  was 
strangely  withheld.  We  humbled  ourselves  before  God,  by 
fastmg  and  prayer ;  and,  at  the  same  time,  by  preaching  and 
exhortation,  we  endeavoured  to  storm  the  devil's  camp.  Our 
meetmgs  grew  better  and  bettor ;  at  the  close  of  each  we 
could  say, — 

"  The  little  cloud  Increaseth  still, 
The  heavens  are  big  with  rain ; 
V  We  btksio  .0  catch  the  teeming  shower, 

And  all  its  moisture  drain." 

When  we  were  fully  convicted  of  our  own  utter  helpless- 
ness, unless  God  should  help  us,  then  the  Holy  Ghost  de- 
scended in  eopious  eflfiisions ;  and  in  a  short  time  we  were 
surrounded  with  scores  of  precious  souls  newly  "  bom  of 
God."  Great  unity  prevails  throughout  the  society;  the 
preachers  are  exceedingly  kind,  and  we  labour  together  in 
great  harmony. 

Yesisrday  forenoon  I  was  called  upon,  with  a  brother,  to 
visit  the  house  of  mourning.  When  I  entered,  I  was  sup- 
prised  to  discern  in  the  distressed  widow,  a  mou—  -ng  penitent 
whom  I  had  seen  come  forward  i-o  ho  prayed  »or  only  a  few 
nights  before.  She  then  told  mo  that  her  husband  was  a 
wicked  man,  and  had  opposed  her  going  among  the  Meth- 
odists, and  that  she  dreaded  his  displeasure  when  she  re- 
turned. It  seems,  however,  the  Lord  took  the  matter  into 
his  own  hands,  as  he  was  taken  suddenly  sick  the  night  pre- 
vious, and  expired  before  morning. 

You  wish  to  know  the  names  of  the  preachers  who  are 
stationed  in  this  city.  They  are  as  follows :  Rev,  WilKam 
Squire,  Superintendent ;  Rev.  JcAn  P.  Hotherington,  and 
Rev.  Robert  L.  Lusher,  editor  of  "The  Wesleyanj"  % 


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paper  calculated  to  do  much  good  in  Canada,  and  I  do  hope 
the  Methodists  will  support  it  liberally. 

I  fear  I  shall  not  be  able  to  visit  Kingston,  and  it  will  be 
a  great  disappointment.  The  ice  is  already  very  dangerous, 
and  the  roads  are  in  a  wretched  state  between  h«re  and 
Kingston.  My  time,  you  are  aware,  is  far  spent.  I  must 
visit  New  York  before  I  sail.  Within  a  few  weeks  past,  I 
have  changed  my  intended  route,  and  shall  sail,  if  God  per- 
mit, from  Quebec  to  Halifax,  N.  S.,  thence  to  Liverpool. 

There  were  more  than  two  hundred  sinners  converted  in 
Quebec,  and  since  my  arrival,  about  one  hundred  and  seventy 
in  this  city;  but  we  are  looking  for  greater  things  than 
these,  as  many  are  praying, — 

"  A  rill,  a  streain,  a  torrent  flows,  ^ 

But  aend  tho  mighty  flood ; 
0  shake  the  nations,  sweep  the  eortb, 
Till  all  proolaim  thee  God." 

I  have  lately  received  a  most  affecting  letter  from  Quebec, 
giraig  an  account  of  a  dreadful  fire,  and  the  loss  of  four 
Kves.  As  I  knew  one  of  the  sufferers,  I  feel  the  more  deep- 
ly affected.  One  night,  during  the  revival  in  Quebec,  as  T 
was  walking  up  the  aisle,  one  of  the  brethren  said  tome,  with 
great  earnestness,  "  Do  you  see  that  old  gentleman  with  tl  e 
bald  head?",       "^ 

"Yes." 

"  Well,  Sir,  he  was  once  a  member  of  our  society,  but  has 
long  since  left  us,  and  what  is  worse,  he  is  a  miserable  baek- 
dider  ;  go  and  speak  to  him." 

His  words  came  with  power  to  my  mind,  and  with  some 
difficulty  I  got  to  liim.  He  seemed  very  attentive  to  what 
was  going  on,  but  without  any  apparent  concern  about  his 
«oul.    I  was  struck  with  his  respectable  and  venerable  ap- 


MaStSSSSKJKSSSSSW 


■laaMiasJWi'iMiiysflm^ 


ADA. 

,,  and  I  do  hope 

1,  and  it  will  be 
very  dangerous, 
iween  h«re  and 
spent.  I  must 
N  weeks  past,  I 
ail,  if  God  per- 
to  Liverpool, 
ra  converted  in 
red  and  seventy 
)er  things  than 


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77 


rfrom  Quebec, 
;he  loss  of  four 
.  the  more  deep- 
in  Quebec,  as  I 
said  to  me,  with 
tleman  with  tl  o 


society,  but  has 
miserable  baok- 

and  with  some 
entive  to  what 
cem  about  his 
I  venerable  ap- 


pearance. After  a  few  words  were  spoken  to  him,  a  re- 
markable influence  came  upon  my  soul.  Words  were  given 
me  such  as  I  cannot  repeat.  For  a  time  he  remained  firm ; 
at  last  the  word  came  as  fire,  and  as  a  hammer  to  break 
the  rock  in  pieces.  He  became  greatly  agitated.  My  in- 
most soul  yearned  over  him.  I  felt  such  a  burning  love  to 
his  soul,  that  I  could  have  taken  him  in  my  arms,  and  have 
carried  him  to  the  altar.  But  he  would  not  move,  although 
he  trembled  in  every  limb.  I  told  liim  I  could  not  leave  ; 
go  to  be  prayed  for  he  must.     I  urged,  entreated,  conjured. 

Had  some  polite  and  fashionable  Christians  been  there,  I 
am  sure  they  would  have  charged  me  with  overstepping  the 
bounds  of  propriety,  in  attempting  to  drive  the  man  to  be 
saved.  Ak !  there  is  much  in  that  advice  of  Jude :  "  And 
of  some  have  compassion,  making  a  difiference :  And  others 
save  with  fear,  puiling  them  out  of  the  fire."  At  last  God 
helped  me  to  prevail.  With  a  faltering  step,  and  almost 
overpowing  emotion,  he  walked  to  the  altar.  It  was  full  of 
penitents,  but  he  fell  down  near  it,  and  in  about  one  hour 
God  had  mercy  upon  him,  and  healed  all  his  backslidings. 
At  the  close  of  the  meeting,  there  were  great  rejoicings  over 
hun,  and  many  others ;  among  whom  was  one  of  his  own 
apprentices,  who  obtained  salvation  the  same  evemng. 

A  letter  brou^t  me  the  sad  intelligence,4hat  one  night, 
about  ten  days  after  I  had  left  Quebec,  he,  bis  wife,  servant 
^1,  and  two  apprentices,  having  retired  to  rest,  towards 
morning  a  fire  broke  out  in  one  of  the  lower  apartments  of 
the  house ;  and,  although  an  alarm  was  ^ven,  such  was  the 
fmy  of  the  flames,  that  before  an  attempt  could  be  made  to 
rescue  the  inmates,  all  had  perished  except  the  elder  appren< 
tice.  "  The  fames  of  their  burning  bodies  made  a  part  of 
the  awful  column  of  smoke  which  spread  itself,  like  the  pall 
of  death,  over  our  deeply-excited  city."  The  youth  wha 
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waa  saved,  is  a  member  of  our  churcli  His  escape  was 
truly  miraculous.  lie  was  awakened  out  of  a  deep  Bleep  by 
the  smoke,  and  some  indistmct  erica  of  fire ;  he  tried  to 
awaken  his  companion,  but  the  heat  increasing,  he  rushed  to 
the  window,  ahnost  suflfocated.  Just  then  the  fire  blazed  all 
around  the  room,  and  he  sprang  from  the  fourth  story,  and 
alighted  on  the  frozen  street ;  yet  not  a  bone  waa  broken, 
and  he  sustained  but  very  little  injury.  He  says,  that  a 
little  before  he  leaped  from  the  window,  he  heard  the  voices 
of  the  old  couple  in  another  part  of  ,':be  house.  Alas !  they 
must  then  have  been  surrounded  with  smoke  and  flame. 

I  was  informed  that  on  Christmas  morning,  very  early, 
the  old  lady  attended  the  Methodist  chapel,  m  deep  anxiety 
about  her  soul.     She  said  afterwards,  "  I  went  t«  the  chapel 
with  the  intention  of  going  forward  to  be  prayed  for,  but 
there  was  no  invitation."    Oh !  how  necessary  to  be  "  in 
season,  out  of  season,"  in  our  eflForts  to  tiave  assembled  sin- 
ners.     She  did  not  come  again  to  the  chapel  while  I  re- 
mained in  Quebec.     Perhaps  God,  who  had  begun  a  good 
work  in  her  soul,  completed  it  before  that  dreadful  night. 
Here  I  leave  it ;  but,  with  a  grateful  heart,  I  adore  that  God 
who  enabled  me,  on  the  night  referred  to,  faithftdly  and  per- 
severingly  to  attempt  to  save  the  soul  of  her  husband  from 
the  fires  of  the  second  death.     Had  he  left  the  chapel  that 
night  without  decision,  or  converting  grace,  he  might  have 
been  eternally  lost.    Now,  I  believe,  he  is  among  the  re- 
deemed m  heaven.     None  of  the  millions  who  know  him 
there,  will  refuse  to  say,  "Is  not  this  a  brand  plucked  out 
of  the  fire  ?"      The  eternal  salvation,  even  of  these  two 
souls,  (for  the  young  apprentice  who  lost  his  life,  had  been 
converted  also  during  the  revival,)  is  worth  the  labour  and 
expense  of  my  whole  tour,  although  it  should  not  result  in 
the  salvation  of  any  others. 


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and  fiame. 
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ifiilly  and  per- 
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of  these  two 
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An  awful  event,  which  lately  transpired  in  this  city,  has 
also  made  a  deep  impression  upon  ray  mind.    I  have  just  re- 
ceived the  facta  from  one  of  our  loaders.     A  young  man  who 
hnded  in  this  country  fi-om  England,  last  summer,  waa 
spending  part  of  Sabbath,  the  14th  inst.,  in  a  house  in  *  *  * 
street,  in  company  with  a  person  who  came  out  with  him  in 
the  same  ship.      While  there  he  took  offence  at  something, 
and,  in  his  passion,  wished  that  God  might  strike  him  blind, 
and  du7,ib,  and  dead,  if  ho  over  entered  mto  that  house 
again.     He  and  another  companion  then  proceeded  to  a  dram 
shop,  and  had  something  to  drink.     Under  the  influence  of 
liquor  and  the  devil,  he  returned  to  the  house,  where  only 
one  hour  before  he  had  uttered  the  dreadful  imprecation. 
On  Tuesday,  the  23d  inst.,  while  employed  in  front  of  a 
house  in  St.  Paul's  street,  a  heavy  body  of  snow  came  down 
from  the  roof,  fell  upon  him,  and  knocked  him  down  with 
such  violence,  that  before  they  could  get  him  from  under  it, 
he  was  dead.     "  Thus,"  says  the  leader,  "  his  impious  wish 
was  granted ;  he  waa  struck  blind  and  dumb,  so  that  he  could 
neither  see  nor  call  for  assistance,  and  he  waa  dead  before 
he  could  be  released."    The  Psahnist  might  well  say  of  him 
who  ruleth  in  the  heavens,  "Verily,  he  is  a  God  that  judg- 
eth  in  the  earth."      St.  Peter  also  tells  us  of  a  certain 
class  of  sinners,  who  "bring  upon  themselves  swifb  destruc- 
tion." 

About  the  time  of  my  arrival  here  from  Quebec,  there  waa 
another  death,  m  wluch  I  was  deeply  interested.  The  fol- 
lowing is  the  history  of  the  case :  When  I  was  here  in  1837, 
there  was  a  powerftd  revival.  One  Sabbath  mght  I  waa  led 
to  take  that  text.  Rev.  xx.  11—13.  During  the  reading 
of  the  text  a  man  began  to  tremble  in  a  manner  he  could 
not  well  control.  He  attracted  the  attention  of  two  or  three 
praying  men,  and  they  kept  their  eyes  upon  him,  hoping  to 


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to  have  Inm  forward  for  prayer ;  but  as  soon  aa  the  Bormon 
•was  over,  ho  made  an  effort  to  get  out,  and  Bucccoded.  He 
gathered  strength  in  the  fresh  air,  and  ran  for  Ids  life.  Those 
Bwiftrfooted  scrk'ants  of  Christ  started  in  pursuit  ol"  the 
wounded  sinner.  At  length  he  reached  his  house,  aad  dart- 
ed in,  not  without  having  been  observed  by  his  purjueiu.  In 
a  few  moments  they  knocked  at  his  door,  and  wcet;  admitted ; 
but  he  had  disappeared.  Tliey  mquired  of  the  -v/ife  for  her 
husband.  "  He  is  in  that  room,"  was  her  reply .  "  We 
must  see  him."  She  conducted  them  into  the  rrom,  where 
ho  had  thrown  himself  upon  a  bed.  When  ho  saw  them  he 
burst  into  tears.  They  pressed  the  truth  of  Jehovah  upoa 
Ids  conscience,  at  the  same  tune  urgmg  him  to  ariBe  and  call 
upon  God.  He  did  so,  and  they  wrestled  in  prayer  till  mid 
night,  when  he  professed  to  have  found  salvation.  Alas !  he 
did  not  long  walk  in  the  way  to  heaven.  His  old  besetment, 
intoxicating  drink,  got  the  better  of  him,  and  he  fell  from 
God. 

When  I  was  here  last  autumn  he  avoided  the  chapel  with 
great  precaution,  but,  before  I  returned,  a  fatal  disease  had 
seized  upon  him.  His  distress  of  mmd  and  body  was  very  great. 
Some  hopes,  I  believe,  were  entertained  of  his  salvation, 
before  he  breathed  his  last.  The  previous  New  Year's  Day 
was  a  ''  high  day"  with  him  and  his  wicked  companions,  but 
before  it  was  over  he  laid  the  foundation  of  his  speedy  de&tb. 

We  find  a  still  further  account  of  his  labors  during  this 
tour  in  Lower  Canada  in  a  letter  to  a  friend,  written  from  St. 
John's,  with  which  we  close  the  present  chapter. 

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idea  of  visiting  Kingston  at  this  tame.  Having  still  a  deep 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  tbe  little  society  in  this  place,  I 
gathered,  from  my  feelings,  that  the  Lord  nught  have  some 
thing  for  me  to  do,  either  in  strengthening  the  young  con- 
verts of  last  autumn,  or  laying  hold  of  some  of  the  devil's 
children,  who  were  then  wounded  by  the  arrows  of  the 
gospel. 

I  found  the  little  society  standing  fast,  and  domg  well ; 
but  the  wicked  are  afraid  of  me.  They  remember  the  ar- 
rows of  the  last  battle,  and  are  better  prepared  to  avoid 
tliem.  So  true  is  that  saying  of  an  elegant  writer,  "  If  the 
sinner  is  not  recalled  by  the  invitations  of  the  gospel,  he  will 
be  riveted  by  that  gospel  into  more  helpless  condemnation." 
I  fear  I  made  a  mistake  in  leaving  St.  John's  so  early ;  and 
have  Bome  suspicions  that  was  the  reason  why  my  way  was 
so  hedged  up  in  Montreal  last  autumn. 

I  preached  eighty-six  sermons  in  Montreal,  one  temperance 
sermon,  and  delivered  five  lectures  on  total-abstinence  from 
all  intoxicating  drinks.  More  than  two  hundred  sinners  were 
converted  to  God,  and  one  thousand  persons  united  with  the 
Montreal  "  Young  Men's  Total  Abstinence  Society."  A 
deputation  from  the  above  society  visited  me  before  I  left  the 
city,  with  a  request  that  I  would  give  them  a  few  months  of 
my  time,  previous  to  my  sailing  for  Europe,  in  order  to  visit 
a  few  of  the  towns  of  Upper  Canada,  for  the  purpose  of 
promoting  the  cause  of  temperance.  A  liberal  sum  had 
been  raised  for  the  purpose,  with  an  offer  of  more,  if  neces" 
Bary,  should  I  undertake  the  mission.  Although  I  felt 
myself  honoured  by  the  flattering  offer,  I  durst  not  accept  it. 
I  reflected,  If  my  commission  to  visit  Canada  and  Europe  is 
from  God,  then  I  am  not  at  liberty  to  be  an  agent  of  this 
kind ;  because,  in  no  part  of  it,  is  a  temperance  agency  (in 
file  proper  sense  of  the  term)  written.    On  the  same  pris 


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ciple,  I  rejected  the  proposition  of  some  of  my  friends,  to 
procure  an  agency  for  the  promotion  of  the  objects  of  the 
"  American  Bible  Society."  True,  this  would  lessen  my  per- 
sonal expenses  ;  but,  at  the  same  time,  greatly  entangle  me 
in  my  revival  designs. 

But,  you  will  ask,  "  How  could  you  then  consistently  de- 
liver so  many  temperance  lectures  in  Quebec  and  Montreal  ?" 

I  answer,  on  the  same  principles  that  I  could  give  an  ad- 
dress at  a  Missionary  or  Bible  Society  meeting;  when  I 
could  make  such  addresses  subservient  to  the  revival ;  when 
I  could  mingle  with  my  remarks  those  eternal  truths  of  the 
gospel  which  awaken  and  cc  rert  men ;  thus  a£fording  my- 
self an  opportunity  of  proclaiming  the  verities,  and  pressing 
the  claims,  of  Christianity  upon  nunds  which  otherwise  I 
could  not  have  reached ;  and  the  very  next  night  preach  the 
gospel  to  these  awakened  sinners,  and  thus  lead  them  not  only 
to  be  temperance  men  and  philanthropists  but  real  Christians, 
and  all  this  without  infnn^g  upon  the  rights  of  any  par- 
ticular society,  or  without  entanglements  from  claims  con- 
nected with  any  special  agency. 

Under  these  circumstances  I  cheerfully  embraced  such  op- 
portunities, and  thus  enjoyed  the  double  gratification  of 
helping  forward  the  interests  of  associations,  good  in  them- 
selves, while  I  carried  forward,  at  the  same  time,  conscien- 
tiously, the  grand  design  intended  by  God  in  thrusting  me  out 
from  my  ordinary  sphere  of  labour.  I  intend  to  spend  only 
a  few  days  here,  and  then  return  to  Montreal ;  and  from 
thence  shall  proceed  into  the  United  States. 

Finding  myself  quite  unsuccessful  here,  it  was  impressed 
apon  my  mind  to  preach  rettitution.  This  has  created  quite 
a  stir.  I  plead  for  the  rights  of  government,  as  for  those  of 
an  individual ;  and  insist  that  it  is  just  as  smful  to  defraud 
lihe  customs,  as  to  cheat  in  trade.    The  smugglers  are  in 


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d  lessen  my  per- 
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id  to  spend  only 
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great  trouble.  One  was  so  powerfully  wrought  upon,  that 
he  was  on  the  point  of  presenting  his  watch  to  a  custom- 
house officer  during  the  sermon.  So  he  confessed  afterwards, 
but  congratulated  himself  that  he  had  had  strength  of  mind 
enough  to  conquer  his  superstitious  weakness.  I  think 
the  devil  will  have  his  difficulties  in  keeping  some  of  them 
quiet. 

In  Montreal  the  effects  were  more  evident  and  general. 
Nnineious  cases  of  restitution  came  to  my  knowledge ;  from 
tho  small  sum  of  one  dollar,  ranging  upwards  to  two  hundred 
dollars.  The  history  of  some  of  the  cases,  though  melan- 
choly, was  really  amusing.  The  conscience  of  a  barber 
flew  in  his  face,  accusing  him  of  repeatedly  charging  two- 
pence more  for  a  certain  article  than  its  rerl  value;  and 
keener  than  the  razor's  edge  was  that  conscience  in  its 
operations  upon  his  soul. 

Another  had  acted  the  rogue,  a  few  years  ago,  in  denying 
possession  of  a  bank  note  to  a  certain  amount,  which  he  had 
picked  up  on  the  stfee^,  although  challenged  by  the  owner 
a  few  minutes  after ;  now  it  was  burning  his  soul  like  a  coal 
of  a  fire. 

Another  was  the  case  of  a  young  man  in  a  mercantile 
house,  who  had  charge  of  the  cash  book.  In  1839,  his  em- 
ployer one  day  made  a  wrong  entry,  by  mistake,  which  was 
to  the  young  man's  advantage.  On  balancmg  his  cash 
account  at  night,  a  sum  of  money  remained  in  his  hands,  for 
which  he  could  not  account,  nor  was  he  anxious  to  do  so. 
Some  tune  after,  however,  he  discovered  the  error  of  his 
nmster,  but  said  nothing,  having  expended  the  sum  in  a  cer- 
tain article.  The  doctrine  of  restitution  fell  upon  his  ears 
like  peals  of  thunder ;  he  became  deeply  concerned  about 
his  soul ;  but  this  stood  between  him  and  salvation  like  a 
gate  of  iron.     At  last  those  words  came  to  his  soul  with 


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awful  power,  "  Will  you  sell  your  soul  to  holl  for  the  sum  of 

?  "     His  conscience  recoiled  and  staggered  under  the 

influence,  and  he  cried  out,  "  No,  I  will  restore  it !" 

Another  had  defrauded  a  iindow,  and  he  sent  the  amount 
to  Mr.  Squire,  that  it  might  be  restored.  But  I  cannot  go 
over  all  the  cases.  Excuse  this  very  hastily  written  letter, 
and  believe  me,  your  most  affectionate  friend,  and  brother  in 
Jesus  Christ. 

After  closing  these  labors  in  Lower  Canada,  Mr.  Caughey 
visited  New  York  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  final  settle- 
ment of  his  pecuniary  affiiirs,  preparatory  to  his  European 
voyage.  In  reviewing  his  tour,  he  wrote  to  a  friend,  "  The 
result  has  been  the  conversion  of  between  four  and 
FIVE  HUNDRED  siimers  to  God.  I  cannot  help  receiving 
this  as  a  convincing  proof  that  I  have  not  mistaken  the  will 
of  God."  Truly  this  was  proof  amounting  to  a  demonstra- 
tion. Nearly  five  hundred  souls  saved  in  a  few  months ! 
Thousands  of  ministers  would  be  inexpressibly  happy  could 
they  have  as  many  "waZ«  "  in  a  life  time.  An  "  impression  ** 
80  fruitful  as  this  can  hardly  be  deemed  fanciful. 


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CHAPTER   VIII. 

HALIFAX  AND    THE  VOYAGE  THITHER. 

In  the  following  chapter,  we  shall  enjoy  the  pleasure  of  • 
sea  voyage  with  our  indefatigable  revivalist.  Wo  shall  bo 
charmed  with  the  innocent  cheerfulness  of  his  spirit,  when 
out  of  the  din  of  spiritual  battle,  and  with  the  readiness  of 
liis  ardent  mmd  to  improve  every  opportunity  for  doing  good, 
whether  m  the  walks  of  social  life,  or  before  the  great  con- 
gregation. Viewed  merely  as  a  Christian  traveller,  Mr. 
Caughey  is  an  object  of  interest ;  but  there  is  a  liigh  moral 
sublimity  in  his  movements  when  seen  in  their  relation  to  his 
divine  call.  His  voyage  was  a  voyage  of  faith.  Like  ancient 
Abraham, he  "went  out  not  knowmg  whither  he  went," and, 
for  the  same  reason,  because  "he  was  called."  It  is  this 
fact  that  gives  his  conduct  its  peculiar  colorings,  and  fills  the 
Christian  observer  with  admiration  and  even  wonder  at  the 
man  whose  simplicity  of  heart  and  action  is  equalled  only  by 
his  astonishing  labors. 

But  notwithstanding  his  call  from  above,  Mr.  Caughey 
omitted  no  personal  attention  to  liis  temporal  afiairs,  that  was 
necessary  to  enable  him  to  stand  before  the  worid  in  the  as- 
pect of  an  honest  man.  Before  starting  for  Halifax,  we  are 
pleased  to  hear  him  saying  to  a  correspondent,  "  My  tem- 
poral affairs  are  now  nearly  all  settled,  so  that  I  do  not  owe 
»  single  shiUing  on  the  continent  of  America.  Help  me  to 
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HALIFAX  AND  TUB  VOYAGE  TUIIUER. 


praiso  God,  for  tliia  mercy  also."  Praiseworthy  considera. 
tion !  How  judicious  was  this  care  for  shUHngs !  It  was  wise 
in  this  devoted  laborer,  when  engaging  in  his  lofty  and  en- 
nobling mission,  to  keep  himself  unspotted,  even  from  a  shil- 
ling debt,  before  a  world  whose  delight  it  is  to  gainsay  and 
to  injure  the  children  of  God. 

The  letters,  from  which  tins  chapter  is  compiled,  were  writ- 
ten from  Halifax  during  the  month  of  July,  1841.  He  says : 

I  have  travelled  many  hundreds  of  miles  smce  I  last 
wrote  to  you  from  St.  John's,  the  21st  of  last  April.  I  have 
visited  the  cities  of  New  York,  Albany,  and  Troy.  The 
Lord  gave  me  an  opportunity  of  preaching  in  several  towna 
on  my  route,  so  that  I  hope  some  good  was  done.  I  spent 
Sabbath,  the  23d  of  May,  in  Whitehall,  N.  Y.,  (where  I 
received  the  call  to  visit  Europe,)  and  preached  three  times 
on  that  day.  I  had  a  most  refreshing  time  among  the 
dear  souls  who  were  converted  to  God  when  I  was  stationed 
here.    They  had  lost  none  of  their  affection. 

On  Monday,  the  24th,  I  visited  the  retired  spot  where 
God  allowed  me  to  plead.  Exodus  xx»v.  6  —  7,  on  the  11th 
of  July,  1839.  After  that  memorable  period,  I  always 
named  it  Providence  Path;  and  so  noted  it  in  my  private 
journal.  Here  I  had  a  gracious  season  alone,  and  dedicated 
body,  soul,  arid  spirit  to  God,  who  enabled  me  to  plead,  with 
great  sweetness  and  power,  that  the  blessing  of  the  Holy 
Ghost  might  attend  my  labors  in  distant  lands.  Although 
nearly  two  years  had  fled  into  eternity  since  I  prevailed 
■with  God  to  unfold  his  designs,  the  impression  to  cross  the 
Atlantic  remained  as  strong  as  ever.  I  left  the  hallowed 
ground  rejoicing  in  God.  It  is  possible  I  may  see  it  no  more ; 
yet  it  was  impressed  upon  my  mind  that  I  should  be  brought 
back  agwn  to  praise  him  in  that  place  for  his  abounding 
mercies. 


[IITUER. 


lewortliy  consiclera< 
inga !    It  was  wise 

his  lofty  and  en- 
l,  even  from  a  sliil- 

ia  to  gainsay  and 

)mpiled,  were  writ- 
iy,1841.  He  says: 
[uiles  since  I  last 
last  Apiil.  I  have 
,  and  Troy.  The 
ig  in  several  towna 
was  done.  I  spent 
N.  Y.,  (where  I 
cached  tliree  times 
;  time  among  the 
len  I  was  stationed 
ion. 

retired  spot  where 
5  — 7,  on  the  11th 
a  period,  I  always 
d  it  in  my  private 
lone,  and  dedicated 
>d  me  to  plead,  with 
essmg  of  the  Holy 
it  lands.  Although 
r  since  I  prevailed 
Bssion  to  cross  the 
[  left  the  hallowed 
may  see  it  no  more ; 
I  should  be  brought 
e  for  his  abounding 


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HALIFAX  AND  THE  VOYAGE  THITHER. 


87 


About  one  o'clock  I  left  Wliitehall,  in  the  steamer  White- 
hall, Captain  Lyon,  for  Burlington,  Vt.,  where  I  arrived  in 
the  evening.  My  soul  was  deeply  engaged  in  prayer  all  the 
day,  many  times  repeating,  as  I  walked  the  deck :  — 

"  Till  glad  I  lay  this  body  down, 
Thy  servant,  Lord,  attend  j 
And  0,  my  life  of  mercies  crown  , 

With  a  triumphant  end  1" 

On  the  evening  of  the  28th  of  May  I  bade  farewell  to 
my  Burlington  friends.  Several  of  them  accompanied  me 
on  board  the  steamer.  We  had  a  very  solemn  time  in  part- 
ing. Some  thought  they  should  see  my  face  no  more : 
others  had  confidence  that  I  should  be  spared  to  return, 
whether  they  should  live  to  see  me  or  not.  As  to  my  own 
feelings,  they  were  too  deep  and  various  for  utterance.  The 
friends  went  ashore,  and  our  steamer,  like  an  arrow,  darted 
forward  on  that  fine  expanse  of  water.  I  walked  the  deck 
till  midnight  engaged  in  prayer ;  and,  after  taking  a  last 
look  at  the  United  States,  retired  to  my  berth.  Next  morn- 
ing I  landed  at  St.  John's.  I  was  rejoiced  to  find  they 
had  raised  the  chapel  subscription  to  seventeen  hundred 
dollars. 

I  spent  a  few  days  in  MontreaJ,  and  then  sailed  for  Que- 
bec, where  I  arrived  on  the  5th  of  June ;  I  spent  about 
twenty-four  days  in  that  city.  It  was  not  my  intention  to 
stay  so  long,  but  conscientious  scruples  detained  me.  The 
The  Unicom  steamer  was  announced  to  sail  on  Sabbath,  the 
13th  June.  This  involved  my  conscience.  I  could  not  see 
it  to  be  right  for  me  to  sail  on  the  Sabbath ;  and  yet  I  could 
not  feel  resigned  to  postpone  my  departure  till  the  return  of 
the  vessel  in  two  weeks.  I  was  greatly  perplexed.  The 
eyes  of  thousands  were  upon  me  ;  and  if  my  own  conscience 
liad  been  satisfied,  I  durst  not  give  that  Sabbath-breaking 


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UALIFAX   AND   THE   VOYAGE   TniTHER. 


city  a  bad  example.  On  conversing  with  the  cai)tain,  and 
finding  him  ininiovuljlo,  I  concluded  to  wait  two  weeks  ;  when 
he  would  sail  positively  on  a  week-day.  My  mind  had  been 
much  ciist  down  foi*  a  few  daya,  with  many  soro  exoroiaes  and 
buifeting3  from  the  devil ;  but  shortly  after  I  gave  my  de- 
cision, the  gloom  was  totally  dispersed,  and  peace  and  joy 
overspread  my  soul.  Siuco  then  my  peace  Ins  been  like  a 
river.     Isaiah  xlviii.  18. 

The  Quebec  friends  were  greatly  rejoiced  when  they 
learned  I  would  spend  a  couple  of  weeks  with  them.  Tho 
chapel  was  opened  for  preaching  every  night,  and  tho  power 
of  God  was  displayed  among  his  people.  Sinners  were  con- 
verted to  God  daily,  and  the  young  converts  of  last  winter 
were  greatly  strengthened.  Never  shall  I  forget  tho  kind- 
ness of  that  dear  people  ;  every  thing  was  done  that  human 
beings  could  do  to  render  my  stay  pleasant  to  myself.  I  had 
several  delightful  excursions,  sometimes  with  the  most  agree- 
able company ;  often  on  horseback  alone. 

As  you  intend  to  visit  Quebec,  you  must  not  fail  to  sec 
the  Falls  of  Montmorency ;  they  are  only  a  few  miles  from 
the  city.  Tho  ride  is  charming,  and  the  Falls  will  afford  you 
some  sublime  sensations.  You  will  not  be  overwhelmed  with 
those  indescribable  emotions,  Avhich  you  felt  when  gazing 
upon  tho  terrific  majesty  and  overpowering  grandeur  of 
Niagara ;  but  you  will  be  conscious  of  feelings  quite  as 
gracioiis  and  pleasurable.  Here  you  will  see  a  river  of  con- 
siderable magnitude,  gathered  into  a  comparatively  narrow 
channel,  moving  on  under  a  placid  surface  towards  a  cataract 
of  two  hundred  and  forty-six  feet  perpendicular !  Be 
cautloTis ! 

"  S«ift  shrinking bnck, 
I  cliook  my  sfopo  nnd  v'tcvr  the  brokon  scene. 
Smooth  to  tlic  sholviiiK  tuiTiks  a  copious  flood 
Rolls  fair  iinil  placid ;  wlicro  collected  all, 


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rniraER. 

h  the  caiitaln,  and 
it  two  weeks  ;  whcr 
My  miiid  had  been 
ly  soro  excroidos  and 
tcr  I  gave  my  do- 
and  peace  and  joy 
aco  li  13  been  like  a 

cjoiced  -when  thoy 
3  with  thorn.  The 
ight,  and  the  power 
Sinners  were  con- 
verts of  last  winter 
1 1  forget  the  kind- 
.3  done  that  human 
it  to  myself.  I  had 
rith  the  most  agree- 

ust  not  fail  to  see 
f  a  few  mllos  from 
rails  will  afford  you 
5  overwhelmed  with 
I  felt  when  gazing 
'^ering  grandeur  of 
feelings  quite  as 
I  see  a  river  of  con- 
nparatively  narrow 
towards  a  cataract 
srpendicular !     Be 

?  back, 
ioene. 
flood 
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HALIFAX    AND  THE   VOTAQE  TUtTHER.  89 

In  one  impetuous  torrent,  down  tlio  steop 

It  tlmiidoring  shoots,  and  shakes  the  country  round. 

At  first  iin  iiiure  sheet,  it  ruslies  l>rond  j 

Then  whitening  by  degrees,  as  prone  it  fulls  ( 

And  from  the  loud  resounding  rocits  below, 

Dashed  in  a  cloud  of  foam,  it  sends  aloft 

A  hoary  mist,  and  fonns  a  ceaseless  shower. 

Nor  can  the  tortured  waves  hero  find  repose  ; 

But  raging  still,  amid  the  shaggy  rocks, 

Kow  flashing  o'er  the  scattered  fragments,  now 

Aslant  the  hollowed  channel  rapid  darts ; 

And  falling  fast  from  gradual  slope  to  slope. 

With  wild  infracted  course,  and  lessened  roor, 

It  gains  a  safer  bed, " 

and  steals  away  into  the  bosom  of  the  majestic  St.  Lawrence. 
I  know  you  love  the  grand  and  beautiful  in  nature,  and  I  am 
sure  you  will  retire  from  it,  saying  with  your  friend, — 

"  My  full  heart  expanded,  grew  warm,  and  adored." 

It  is  not  likely  you  wll  visit  Quebec  in  the  winter ;  but  if 
you  should,  Montmorency  is  even  then  more  grand  than  at 
this  season  of  the  year.  You  can  then  walk  on  the  ice  be- 
low the  falls,  very  close  to  the  descendmg  mass  of  waters. 
Then  it  is  you  may  see  it  with  an  accompaniment,  which  it 
never  has  in  the  summer,  an  immense  ice-cone,  formed  by 
the  spray,  one  or  two  hundred  feet  in  circumference,  stand- 
ing in  the  centre  of  the  basin,  and  ascending  as  if  to  over- 
look the  surface  of  the  river  above  the  falls.  I  thought  it  a 
grand  sight  when  I  was  here  in  the  winter  of  1835. 

If  you  ascend  the  river  a  short  distance  you  will  light  upon 
a  place  well  worth  seeing,  the  Natural  Steps.  These  are 
formed  on  a  large  scale  by  successive  layers  of  shelving 
rocks,  and  modified  into  a  great  variety  of  figures  by  the 
action  of  the  waters  in  times  of  heavy  freshets.  Here,  in 
company  with  a  gentleman  from  the  city,  I  spent  an  hour 
very  agreeably ;  and,  kneeling  upon  one  of  the  steps,  we  had 
ft  most  deUghtful  time  in  prayer. 
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HALIFAX   AND   TIIK   VOYAGE  TIIITnEB. 


The  celebrated  plains  of  Abraham  must  not  escape  your 
attention.  Those  Ho  south  and  west  of  tho  city,  llorc  the 
famous  battle  was  fou-ht  between  tho  English,  under  Gen- 
cral  Wolfe,  and  tho  French,  commanded  by  General  Mont- 
calm,  Septombor  13th,  17o9.  A  broken  column  of  black 
marble  marks  tho  place  where  the  English  commander  died. 
It  bears  this  mscription : — 

"  noro  died  Wolfe,  victorious." 

Quebec  was  then  surrendered  to  tho  EngUsh,  who  have  held 
peaceable  possession  of  it  since,  with  the  exception  of  an 
moffcctual  effort  during  the  first  war  between  England  and 
the  United  States.     Here  your  General  Montgomenr  was 
killed,  in  a  desperate  struggle  to  scale  tho  walls.     The  place 
Mhcro  he  fell  waa  pointed  out  to  me  below  Prescott  Gate 
Any  mtelUgont  person  can  show  you  the  place  where  tho 
English  army  ascended  from  tho  brink  of  the  St.  Lawrence 
on  the  mght  previous  to  tlie  battle.      AU  visiters  stand 
amazed  when  they  look  at  this  precipice,  not  less  than  two 
hundred  feet  high  from  tho  river,  and  reflect  that  the  camion 
and  munitions  of  war,  necessary  for  a  great  battle,  were 
dragged  up  these  steeps  in  one  short  night,  almost  in  tho  very 
teeth  of  an  enemy;  and  that  these  wearied  soldiers  should 
have  gained  a  complete  victory  the  next  day  over  a  vigorous 
and  powerful  anny. 

Quebec  is  built  upon  a  lofty  promontorjr,  formed  by  tho 
St.  Lawrence  and  river  St.  Charles.  The  city  looks  best 
from  the  river  St.  Lawrence.  You  are  aware  this  is  the 
o^y  regularly  fortified  city  on  the  continent  of  America. 
The  walls  are  nearly  three  miles  in  circuit,  of  great  thick- 
ness from  twenty  to  thirty  feet  high,  surrounded  by  deep 
ditches  of  great  width,  and  surmounted  by  batteries  at  regu- 
lar distances.    Every  where,  outeide  the  walls,  the  canaon, 


i — 


HP^' 


niiTnER, 

it  not  escfty)o  your 
ic  city.  Here  tho 
Qglisli,  under  Gen- 
by  General  Mont- 
1  column  of  black 
I  commander  died. 


sli,  wlio  have  held 
'■  exception  of  an 
ccn  England  and 
Montgomery  waa 
nralls.     Tho  place 
w  Prcscott  Gate, 
place  where  tho 
ho  St.  Lawrence, 
^11  visiters  stand 
^ot  less  than  two 
t  that  the  cannon 
•eat  battle,  wore 
Jmost  in  the  very 
I  soldiers  should 
7  over  a  vigorous 

^  formed  by  tho 
»  city  looks  best 
i^are  this  is  the 
ent  of  America, 
of  great  thick- 
■ounded  by  deep 
tttteries  at  regu- 
)lls,  the  caojxon, 


HALIFAX   AND  TOE  VOYAOE  THITIIER. 


91 


like  largo  black  doga,  aro  peeping  from  their  thrcntcning 
ramparts.  Tho  city  is  entered  by  four  or  five  massive  gates 
of  plain  arohitocturo.  Tho  citadel  crowns  tho  whole.  It  is 
built  upon  the  liighcst  part  of  tho  promontory,  called  Cape 
Diamond,  and  is  considered  ir-' nregnablo.  Tho  walls  aro 
forty  feet  thick,  with  a  ditch  nity  feet  wide.  The  whole 
includes  between  five  and  six  acres.  There  it  stands  in  dark 
magmficence ;  its  lofty  ramparts  frowning  down  upon  tho 
river  and  lower  town,  from  the  dizzy  height  of  four  hundred 
feet.    It  has  been  well  called  tho  Gibraltar  of  America. 

Time  will  not  allow  rae  to  describe  tho  buildings,  some 
of  which  are  elegant  in  design,  and  generally  built  of  stone. 
A  few  days  before  I  left,  I  visited  the  Marine  Hospital,  an 
excellent  institution,  and  well  ordered.  The  situation,  how- 
ever, is  too  low.  I  found  therein  one  hundred  and  fifty 
patients,  belonging  to  different  nations ;  one  dear  sailor  boy, 
fourteen  years  of  age,  deeply  affected  me ;  in  the  dead  hour 
of  tho  night,  in  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence,  ho  had  been 
ordered  aloft,  and,  missing  his  hold,  he  fell  from  the  rigging 
of  a  large  ship,  struck  on  tho  deck,  and  fractured  his  thigh 
in  three  places ;  poor  boy,  how  I  did  feel  for  him !  Lock- 
jaw had  commenced,  but  he  was  able  to  speak  a  little ;  he 
was  quite  sensible,  and  very  intelligent.  His  little  heart  was 
drawn  out  in  prayer  for  mercy,  while  I  was  pouring  out  my 
soul  to  God  for  him.  He  told  me  he  was  bom  in  England, 
that  his  parents  lived  there,  and  that  he  had  had  a  religions 
education.  His  lips  the  next  day  were  closed  forever ;  and 
he  obtained  a  lonely  grave  on  a  foreign  shore,  without  a 
relation  to  drop  a  tear  over  his  little  coffin,  or  to  raise  a  stone 
to  his  memory.  , 

I  am  sorry  I  did  not  learn  his  name,  as  I  may  possibly 
visit  the  place  where  his  parents  reside.  It  would  be  a  great 
comfort  for  them  to  know  that  their  lovely  child  died  pray- 


WinriinnM  " 


HALIFAX   AND   THE  VOTAQE  TniTHER. 

ing  to  the  God  of  his  fathers,  and  that  strangers  were  kind 
to  him ;  that  his  tears  were  not  unnoticed,  nor  his  dying 
groans  unheeded ;  that  the  sympathies  of  heaven  and  earth 
encu-cled  hun ;  that,  while  angel  bands  were  conveying  his 
wondering  soul  to  heaven,  stranger  hands  were  decently 
attu-ing  his  unconscious  body  for  the  grave  m  which  they 
laid  him. 

A  few  days  before  I  sailed  from  Quebec,  I  crossed  the 
river  to  Point  Levy,  and  spent  a  few  hours  very  pleasantly 
with  Mr.  Johnson.     We  had  a  charming  ride  m  his  carriage. 
The  scenery  is  very  beau*.ful;   and  the  harbor,  shipping, 
city,  citadel,  and  adjoining  country  are  seen  to  great  advan- 
tage from  that  side  of  the  river.    We  visited  a  party  of 
Indians  who  were  encamped  on  the  sand  by  the  side  of  the 
St.  Lawrence,  some  of  whom  we  found  busily  er  cloyed  in 
making  very  nice  baskets  of  the  bark  of  trees.  "  One  old 
squaw  was  asleep  by  the  side  of  her  husband,  while  he  was 
engaged  in  preparing  materials ;  another  aged  Indian  was 
slumbering  by  the  door  of  his  wigwam.     They  received  us 
kindly,  and  were  quite  willing  to  talk  about  the  Great  Spirit. 
A  child  lay  stretched  on  the  burmng  sand,  panting  under 
the  intense  heat  of  a  scorching  sun.    We  inquired  why  they 
permitted  the  child  to  sleep  there.    They  replied,  "  It  is 
sick."      Perhaps  their  Indian  medicine  required  such  an 
exposure.    Their  wigwams  were  made  of  the  bark  of  trees ; 
and  altogether  there  was  the  appearance  of  much  poverty 
and  dogradaiion. 

As  the  heavens  became  suddenly  darkened  with  clouds  *e 
hurried  back,  but  had  to  quicken  our  pace,  as  the  big  drops 
of  the  coming  deluge  began  to  thicken  around  us.  No 
sooner  had  we  got  into  the  house  than  the  storm  came  down 
in  fury.  I  had  now  an  opportunily  of  seeing,  for  the  first 
rime,  a  Canadian  thunder  storm.    Nature,  from  a  perfect 


rnER. 

mgcrs  were  kind 
1,  nor  his  dymg 
Javon  and  earth 
•e  conveying  his 
I  were  decently 
in  which  they 

:,  I  crossed  the 
very  pleasantly 
I  m  his  carriage, 
irbor,  shippmg, 
to  great  advan- 
ited  a  party  of 
the  side  of  the 
ly  er  ployed  in 
rees.     One  old 
1,  while  he  was 
;ed  Indian  was 
ley  received  us 
je  Great  Spirit, 
pantmg  under 
uired  why  they 
replied,  "  It  is 
[uired  such  an 
hark  of  trees ; 
much  poverty 

with  clouds  *e 
i  the  big  drops 
und  us.  No 
rm  came  down 
ig,  for  the  first 
from  a  perfect 


HALIFAX  AND  THE  VOTAGB  THITIIER. 


93 


calm,  was  thrown  into  a  tremendous  uproar.  Tempest  rolled 
on  tempest.  The  clouds  in  black  sheets  seemed  flyuig  to 
either  pole.  The  bursts  of  thunder  were  appalling.  Waves 
of  fire  rolled  across  the  sky.  The  peals  succeeded  each 
other  with  fearful  rapidity.  The  earth  trembled.  The 
heavens  resembled  the  ocean  in  a  storm,  billow  rolling  on 
billow,  broken  here  and  there  into  fragments  of  fire.  Al- 
though we  could  say, — 

"  This  awfal  God  is  onrg. 

Our  father  and  our  lore," — 

yet  it  required  a  full  conviction  of  God  as  reconciled  in 
Christ,  to  keep  our  minds  calm  amidst  these  contending 
elements.     We  were  in  a  state  of  mind  fully  to  appreciate 
the  sentiments  of  one  who  said,  "  What  speaks  the  thunder 
in  its  cry  through  heaven's  clouded  palaces  ?    There  is  one 
God.     And  when  the  fierce  tempest  has  lifted  the  billows  to 
mingle  with  the  tumult  of  the  heavens,  what  voice  is  it  that 
rises  higher  than  their  loudest  oatcry  ?     There  Ls  one  God. 
What  is  the  voice  of  those  tall  pine  trees  and  time-defyin<» 
oaks,  royally  waving  their  hands  on  high  as  they  battle  with 
the  tempest,  till  the  hurricane  bends  them  to  sweep  the 
ground  they  have  so  long  shadowed  ?     There  is  one  God. 
Is  not  heaven's  artillery  ringing  it  through  the  air,  while  the 
red  lightnings  are  writing  it  on  the  troubled  sky  in  letters  of 
flame.   There  is  one  God."      We  aU  said  in  our  hearts, 
«  There  is  one  God."    We  did  mdeed  stand  m  awe  of  him, 
as  a  God  of  majesty  and  power ;  but  we  thought  of  Jesus 
Christ,  and  saw  there  the  majesty  of  love.    This  we  could 
not  doubt.     Jesus  was  precious,  very  precious.     But  had 
not  the  character  of  God  been  unfolded  in  Christ  Jesus  oui 
Lord,  who  took  upon  him  our  nature,  and  by  his  miracles, 
invitations  and  tears,  his  life,  his  sufierngs,  and  his  death, 


■VMMM 


! 


-"^«*^. 


04 


HALIFAX   AND   THE  VOYAGE  XHITIIEB. 


proclaimed  what  otherwise  we  never  could  have  known,  the 
love  of  God  to  us  men  and  for  us  sinners,  we  might  indeed 
have  believed  in  his  existence,  but  we  should  have  trembled 
before  his  dreadful  presence,  and  have  been  terrified  bj  the 
manifested  power  of  the  invisible  God.    At  the  end  of  an 
hour  the  storm  came  to  a  crisis,  the  raging  winds  subsided, 
and  the  electric  fires  were  extinguished  with  torrents  of  rain. 
Soon  after  the  ram  ceased,  and  we  had  a  calm  and  beauti- 
ful evening.    A  few  friends  put  me  across  the  harbor  in  a 
saU-boat.    As  we  gUded  over  slowly,  the  citadel  and  city, 
with  the  immense   forest   of  shipping,  appeared  to  great 
advantage.    I  went  straight  to  the  chapel,  and  entered  into 
a  gracious  prayer  meeting.     The  Lord  was  present,  and 
several  poor  sinners  were  converted  to  God.      Returning 
home  my  soul  was  very  happy,  musmg  most  feelingly  on  thr 
language  of  one  of  our  poets :  — 

'  How  sweet  at  such  a  time  as  this  to  monllM, 
And  think  how  soon  the  storm  of  life 
ShaU  pass,  and  leave  this  fraU  and  earth-born 
Part  to  seeic  a  shelter  in  the  grave's  sweet 
Solitude;  and  this  imprisoned  spirit, 
Thus  set  free,  to  plume  her  wings,  and 
Soar  aloft,  to  gaze  upon  the  universe;  and 
When  her  circuit's  done,  to  fold  her  weary 
Wings  fait  by  the  foot  of  God's  eternal  throne." 

^  You  will  be  pleased  to  know,  that  in  my  voyage  to  this 
city,  I  had  the  agreeable  company  of  two  Wesleyan  clergy- 
men from  Quebec,  the  Rev.  Matthew  Richey,  A.  M.,  and 
the  Rev.  Ephraim  Evans,  missionaries  from  Upper  Canada, 
on  their  way  to  England.  The  particulars  of  this  voyage  1 
must  defer  till  another  time  ;  but,  before  I  conclude,  I  ought 
to  state  the  reason  why  I  am  not  now  on  the  broad  Atlantic, 
as  silence  on  this  point  might  cause  you  some  uneasiness. 
>Vhen  I  arrived  in  this  city  the  Columbia  steamship  wag 


— an.  .  JiL.u.j.tiji 


m 


TIIER. 

have  known,  the 
ffG  might  indeed 
i  have  trembled 
terrified  by  the 
it  the  end  of  an 
■winds  subsided, 
torrents  of  rain, 
jalm  and  beauti- 
the  harbor  in  a 
itadel  and  city, 
leared  to  great 
md  entered  into 
\a  present,  and 
d.  Returning 
feelingly  on  thr 


iILn, 

bom 
t 


y 

irone." 

voyage  to  this 
esleyan  clergy- 
By,  A.  M.,  and 
Jpper  Canada, 
'  this  voyage  1 
aclude,  I  ought 
)road  Atlantic, 
ne  uneasiness, 
steamship  waa 


HALIFAX  AND   IDE  VOYAGE  THITHEB. 


9i 


alongside  the  quay,  ■with  her  ftill  compliment  of  passengers. 
We  went  aboard  and  found  the  crew  clearing  out  the  fore- 
castle for  the  convenience  of  additional  passengers.  The 
agent  offered  us  our  passage  for  one  hundred  dollars  each, 
instead  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five.  I  conadered  tho 
matter  over,  and  knowing  that  I  should  suffer  enough  by  sea- 
sickness in  the  best  part  of  the  ship,  I  recoiled  from  the 
prospect  of  an  augmentation  of  it  in  such  accommodations ; 
so  I  refused  to  proceed,  saying,  I  would  wait  two  weeks  for 
the  next  steamer.  My  clerical  friends  said  they  could  not 
do  so,  as  they  had  business  of  importance  at  the  English 
Conference.  It  was  quite  easy  to  see  from  our  looks,  that 
we  had  learned  a  lesson  now,  which  ought  to  have  been 
known  weeks  before,  that  we  should  have  either  sailed  from 
Boston,  or  have  had  our  berths  engaged  there,  if  we  intended 
to  go  aboard  at  HaUfax.  Althou^  several  hundreds  of 
miles  nearer  England  than  at  Boston,  they  demanded  tho 
same  fare  for  passage. 

The  vessel  is  gone,  and  here  I  am  in  a  strange  city.  My 
soul  is  very  happy  in  God.  Sweet  peace  and  a  glow  of 
divine  love  reign  throughout  my  soul.  Glory  be  to  God  in 
the  highest ! 

"  Within  his  cbrclitig  power  I  stand ; 
On  eveiy  side  I  find  his  hand  ; 
Awake,  asleep,  at  home,  abroad, 
I  am  snrronnded  still  with  God." 

On  ike  29th  of  June,  about  noon,  I  bade  acQen  to  Quebec. 
During  my  stay  there,  I  preached  mneteen  sermons,  and 
delivered  two  temperance  lectures.  About  twenty  persons 
■were  converted  to  God.  A  large  number  of  kind  ^enda 
accompanied  me  to  the  steamer,  each  vieing  with  the  other 
in  manifestations  of  Christian  love.  My  heart  was  deeply 
affected.  Many  were  the  tokens  of  their  friendship.  I 
thought  of  A.ct8  xxviii.  10.     It  was  so  in  this  case.    Not 


■M 


rnr 


96 


HALIFAX  AND  THK  VOYAQB  THITHER. 


that  I  needed  any  thing ;  their  kindness  last  winter,  together 
with  that  of  the  Montreal  friends,  had  anticipated  my  wants 
for  some  time  to  come.  It  seems,  however,  they  were  not 
yet  satisfied.  A  few  moments  before  the  Unicom  started 
from  the  dock,  a  person  camo  aboard  and  put  a  letter  into 
my  hand,  and  went  ashore.  My  tearful  eyes  were  fixed 
upon  my  precious  friends  on  the  wharves  as  long  as  I  could 
see  them.  It  is  impossible  to  express  my  feelings.  I  re- 
strained them  as  long  as  I  could,  but  when  Quebec  and  those 
I  loved  had  disappeared,  •  •  •  • 

After  my  emotions  were  subsided,  I  opened  the  letter,  and, 
lo !  a  check  on  a  bank  in  London  for  more  than  sufficient  to 
pay  my  entire  expenses  from  Quebec  to  England.  The  ac- 
companying letter  informed  me  that  the  gift  had  originated 
with  a  few  ladies,  followers  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  I 
cannot  withhold  from  you  a  copy  of  a  note  which  I  found 
folded  in  the  check.  It  is  from  a  precious  servant  of  Christ, 
one  who  is  an  honor  to  her  sex,  and  an  ornament  to  the 
church  of  God  in  that  city.  Her  kind  husband  and  htrself 
have  over  shown  toward  me  the  affection  of  parents,  and  in 
all  my  viats  to  Quebec  their  hospitable  house  has  been  my 
happy  home.  May  the  Holy  Ghost  ever  bless  them  and 
their  interesting  family ! 

«  Dbar  Brother  Caughbt  :  This  is  but  a  small  maa-k  of 
our  regard  for  yourself,  and  love  for  our  adorable  Jesus. 
May  God  add  his  richest  blessmg !  Perhaps  in  some  Isisure 
moment  you  may  find  time  to  look  at  this  list,  and  here  you 
will  see  the  names  of  those  whose  hearts  the  love  of  Jesus 
has  moulded  to  beat  in  umson  with  your  own ;  and  who  feel 
a  sweet  confidence,  that  if  we  meet  no  more  on  earth,  wo 
shall  meet  around  the  eternal  throne. 

«  Tour  obliged  and  attached  sister  in  Christ, 

"Mary  M'Lkoj." 


m 


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m 


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i:^  i]>llMnil1liaB«iM>Wmw<tt(»i 


IIHKB. 

it  winter,  together 
icipated  my  wauta 
rer,  they  were  not 
)  Unicom  started 
put  a  letter  into 
eyes  were  fixed 
as  long  as  I  could 
y  feelings.  I  re- 
Quebec  and  those 

ed  the  letter,  and, 
than  sufficient  to 
ngland.  The  ac- 
Pt  had  originated 
Jesus  Christ.  I 
ste  which  I  found 
aervant  of  Christ, 
ornament  to  the 
band  and  herself 
f  parents,  and  in 
ose  has  been  my 
bless  them  and 

t  a  small  mark  of 
adorable  Jesus. 
)s  m  some  Isisnre 
st,  and  here  you 
the  love  of  Jesus 
m ;  and  who  feel 
lore  on  earth,  we 

in  Christ, 

BY  M'LBOi).*' 


X^. 


HALIFAX  AND  THE  VOYAGE  THITHBR. 


97 


Our  beautiful  steamer  dashed  down  the  St.  Lawrence  in 
noble  style.  The  ministers  I  mentioned  m  my  last  were 
most  agreeable  companions.    We  had,  indeed, 

"  The  feast  of  reason  and  the  flow  of  Bonl." 

As  our  vessel  flew  along  the  waters,  her  white  canvas  wings 
filled  Tvith  the  propitious  breeze,  that  delightful  verse  rolled 
many  times  over  my  mind  with  the  greatest  sweetness  — 

"  Press  forward,  press  forward, 
The  prize  is  in  view  ; 
A  crown  of  bright  glory, 
Is  waiting  for  you." 

Thirty-four  hours  brought  us  to  Gaspe,  four  hundred  milee 
from  Quebec.  On  the  evening  of  the  30tii  of  June,  Mr. 
Kichey  preached  us  an  excellent  sermon.  We  had  about 
thirty  passengers  aboard,  and  they  were  very  attentive  to 
the  word. 

The  St.  Lawrence  is  a  beautiful  river.  Prom  the  east 
end  of  Lake  Ontario,  to  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence  in  the 
Atlantic,  is  seven  hundred  miles,  which  is  considered,  I 
believe,  the  length  of  this  river;  but  the  whole  extent  ot 
water  communication,  by  the  great  lakes  and  this  river,  can- 
not be  less  than  two  thousand  miles.  Besides,  it  is  not  only 
the  outlet  to  that  great  chain  of  western  lakes  I  have  refer 
red  to,  it  also  receives  the  waters  of  Lake  ChamplaiA,  ^4 
Ottawa,  or  Grand  Eiver,  and  a  great  variety  of  tributary 
streams.  The  scenery  from  Quebec  to  Gaspe  is  as  diversi 
fied  and  picturesque  as  you  could  well  ima^e.  From 
Quebec,  one  hundred  miles,  we  had  almost  a  continuous  chain 
of  littie  Canadian  houses,  with  here  and  there  a  small  village, 
and  the  spire  of  a  church  "  pointing  like  a  silent  finger  into 
heaven."  When  these  are  past,  all  is  one  vast  scene  of 
desolation.  Forests,  rocks,  precipices,  and  mountains,  arise 
9 


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>: , 


98 


HALIFAX  AND  THE  VOYAGB  TUITHER. 


in  awful  and  singular  profusion.  On  approaching  the  Gulf, 
the  grandeur  and  exceeding  boldness  of  the  widely  jcpurated 
shores  are  quite  befitting  the  mouth  of  such  a  mighty  river. 
The  scene  miist  bo  appallmg  in  the  depth  of  winter.  We 
found  ourselves  in  the  Gulf  on  the  morning  of  July  the  1st, 
and  were  out  of  sight  of  land  during  several  hours.  The 
weather  was  very  fine,  and  scarcely  a  ripple  ruffled  that  vast 
expanse  of  waters.  What  a  contrast  between  its  then  placid 
and  silvery  bosom,  and  the  terrific  uproar  observable  hero 
late  in  the  autumn  or  early  in  the  spring ! 

Many  a  fine  vessel  has  been  ingidfed  here ;  and  the  bones 
of  vast  multitudes  line  the  shores  of  this  dangerous  region. 
Only  a  few  weeks  since,  the  brig  Minstrel,  Captain  Outer- 
bridge,  struck  a  dangerous  reef  m  a  heavy  sea,  went  down, 
and  nearly  all  on  board  perished.  The  vessel  sailed  from 
Limerick,  Ireland,  last  April,  with  one  hundred  and  forty-one 
passengers,  emigrants  intending  to  settle  in  Canada.  It 
seems  they  had  a  tolerable  passage  ;  but  when  full  of  joy  at 
hailing  the  land  of  their  destination,  and  supposing  all  tiieir 
hazards  and  hardships  were  over,  in  a  moment  the  full  cup 
of  misery  was  placed  in  their  hands,  nor  was  it  long  ere  they 
drank  it  to  the  very  dregs.  At  four  o'clock  in  the  morning  the 
vessel  struck  on  the  reef.  The  boats  were  launched  and 
made  fast  to  th$  fore  chains ;  upwards  of  one  hundred  pas- 
sengers embarked  in  them,  but  their  doom  was  quickly 
sealed;  the  brig  "heeled off"  into  deep  water,  and  went 
down  stem  foremost,  and  so  suddenly  that  the  ropes  of  the 
boats  could  not  be  cast  off,  and  all  followed' the  ship  to  the 
bottom.  Out  of  upwards  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  souls 
only  eight  remained  to  tell  the  sad  tale.  These  eight  had 
got  mto  the  gig,  which  was  towing  astern ;  providentially, 
the  rope  which  attached  it  to  the  vessel  broke  when  she  weur 
down,  and  they  escaped  from  the  yawmng  whirlpool. 


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Vlri..Mjmte 


W^i*¥W«i|fWitW)MLMP<LWM!aiffWIIIH.'«|i'« 


™.,-L. 


if 


m 


HITHER. 

)roaching  the  Gulf, 
e  widely  separated 
ich  a  mighty  river, 
th  of  winter.  We 
Qg  of  July  the  1st, 
vend  hours.  The 
>le  ruffled  that  vast 
reen  its  then  placid 
u*  observable  hero 

Bre ;  and  the  bones 
dangerous  region, 
•el,  Captain  Outer- 
vj  sea,  went  down, 
vessel  sailed  from 
adred  and  forty-one 
le  m  Canada.  It 
when  full  of  joy  at 
supposing  all  theu* 
loment  the  full  cup 
ras  it  long  ore  they 
:  in  the  morning  the 
rere  launched  and 
r  one  hundred  pas- 
doom  was  quickly 
p  water,  and  went 
it  the  ropes  of  the 
red' the  ship  to  the 
od  and  fifty  souls 
These  eight  had 
m;  providentially, 
■oke  when  she  weul 
5  whirlpool. 


HALIFAX  AND  THE   VOYAQE  THITHEn. 


90 


But,  ah  !  their  souls.  Wliat  became  of  their  souls.  How 
Bufldon  the  transition  from  time  to  eternity  !  So  many  ac- 
countable beings  forced,  prepared  or  not,  into  the  presence 
of  the  Judge  of  all.  The  captain,  poor  fellow !  behaved 
moat  gallantly  during  the  awful  scene,  declaring  that  he 
would  not  leave  the  vessel  till  all  his  passengers  were  saved, 
and  ho  perished  with  the  rest. 

There  was  another  event  happened  farther  up  the  river 
last  November,  which  I  used  to  great  advantage  at  Quebec, 
.it  a  temperance  meeting.  Two  of  Her  Britannic  Majesty's 
soldiers  went  on  board  e  vessel  on  business ;  one  of  them 
took  with  him  a  bottle  of  liquor ;  they  got  drank,  quarrelled, 
and,  seizing  each  other  in  mortal  conflict,  carried  their  ven- 
geance even  unto  the  death.  A  gentleman  came  on  deck 
just  as  they  went  overboard.  They  continued  their  murder 
ous  grapple  in  the  water  till  they  went  down  to  rise  no  more 
alive.  But  the  matter  did  not  end  here ;  the  man  who  let 
that  soldier  have  the  liquor  had  a  little  harbor  near  his 
house,  where  he  kept  a  small  boat.  One  morning,  a  few 
weeks  after  the  event,  on  going  down  to  his  boat,  lo !  the 
victim  of  his  rum,  the  corpse  of  that  unfortunate  soldier  lay 
beside  his  boat.  It  had  floated  seven  miles  from  where  the 
catastrophe  happened.  A  physician  told  me  the  effects  upon 
the  man  were  awfiil.  But  to  return  to  our  voyage  in  the 
Gulf. 

I  felt  grateful  to  God  for  the  cahn,  not  on  account  of  our 
safety  merely,  but  I  did  not  want  to  have  a  foretaste  of  my 
sea-sickness  before  I  had  it  in  good  earnest  on  the  Atlantic. 
The  passengers  were  in  fine  spirits ;  but,  at  the  dinner  table, 
some  appeared  to  think  that  such  spirits  could  not  last  long 
unless  recruited  by  the  spirits  beneath  the  cork.  Your  friend, 
being  of  quite  a  different  opinion,  was  drawn  into  a  tempe- 
rance debate.    The  bottles,  of  course  anti-temperance  chiuv 


'ii 


100 


HALIFAX   AND  TUE   VOYAGE  THITHER. 


acfcers,  were  powerful  advocates  on  the  other  side.  After 
•we  had  bcou  contending  some  time,  a  gentleman  from  St. 
John's,  New  Brunswick,  observmg  a  bloated  son  of  the  cupa 
deliberately  depriving  the  corks  of  all  authority,  and  Uberatmg 
most  freely,  for  a  moment,  the  spirits  imprisoned  there,  then 
incarcerating  them  in  as  hopeless  and  objectionable  a  prison 
as  ever  poor  alcohol  had  the  nuafortune  to  fall  into,  wliispered 
in  my  ear,  "  How  horrible  a  thing  it  is  to  see  a  man  make 
such  a  steam  engine  of  his  stomach  ! "  This  brought  him 
out,  and  a  few  strokes  like  the  following  put  an  end  to  the 
debate:  « I  have  been  to  Montreal,  and  also  to  Quebec.  My 
business  to  these  cities  has  called  me  frequently  to  the  cab 
depots.  When  looking  among  them  for  a  suitable  convey- 
ance, I  saw  poor  horses  whose  hides  presented  a  very  wide 
contrast  when  compared  with  others.  In  a  short  time  I 
could  always  tell  what  horse  belonged  to  a  temperance  man, 
and  what  to  an  opposite  character.  When  I  saw  a  good 
looking  horse,  and  in  excellent  order,  I  concluded,  that  be- 
longs to  a  tectotallor ;  and  when  I  saw  a  poor  ammal  that 
the  crows  might  be  ready  to  fall  upon,  I  exclaimed,  The 
owner  of  tMs  takes  the  oats  himself;  and  notlung  that  oc- 
curred afterwards  convinced  me  I  had  come  to  an  erroneous 

conclusion." 

We  had  only  been  a  few  hours  out  of  sight  of  land  when 
we  hailed  Prince  Edward's  Island,  and  the  Island  of  Cape 
Breton.  The  latter  island  is  separated  from  Nova  Scotia  by 
an  arm  of  the  sea,  caUed  the  Gut  of  Canso.  Both  islands 
belong  to  Great  Britsdn. 

As  we  neared  land,  Prince  Edward's  Island  looked  exceed- 
ingly beautiful.  And  now  I  saw  what  I  had  long  demred  to 
see,  that  strange  optical  illusion,  "  The  Mirage."  It  is 
formed  by  a  state  of  the  atmosphere  so  highly  transparent 
that  objects  beneath  are  reflected  as  in  a  nun-or.    Prince 


m     ti 


u 


ITHER. 

thor  side.  After 
jntlcman  from  St. 
id  son  of  the  cups 
ity,  and  liberating 
isoned  there,  then 
ictionable  a  prison 
■all  mto,  wliispered 

0  see  a  man  make 
Ihis  brought  him 
put  an  end  to  the 
30  to  Quebec.  My 
(juently  to  the  cab 

1  suitable  convey- 
3nted  a  very  wide 
n  a  short  time  I 

temperance  man, 
on  I  saw  a  good 
loncluded,  that  be- 
a  poor  ammal  that 
I  exclaimed,  The 
[  nothing  that  oo 
ae  to  an  erroneous 

sight  of  land  when 
be  Island  of  Cape 
jm  Nova  Scotia  by 
ISO.    Both  islands 

and  looked  exceed- 
lad  long  deared  to 
Q  Mirage."  It  is 
highly  transparent 
a  min'or.    Prince 


n 


HALIFAX  AND  THE  VOYAaE  THITHER. 


101 


Edward's  Island  seemed  like  a  scene  of  enchantment,  or 
some  fairy  land.     The  shores  arose  in  bold  and  lofty  gran- 
deur twice  their  natural  height;  and  every  object  more  than 
doubled  its  size.     The  little  white  houses  along  the  shores 
were  transformed  into  high  towers,  and  some  of  them  looked 
like  splendid  waterfalls,  equal  to  Montmorency  or  Niagara. 
The  whole  waa  a  complete  illusion.      About  ten  miles  east- 
ward, there  waa  another  on  a  parallel  with  the  sun.    It  was 
formed  by  the  action  of  the  sun's  rays  upon  the  water,  the 
atmosphere  being  at  the  same  time  in  a  state  of  pecuhar 
transparency.     This  waa  entirely  a  water  illusion.      The 
little  waves  appeared  Uke  a  swamp  of  tall  reeds,  and  again 
like  an  immense  sheet  of  water  falling  over  the  side  of  a 
dam. 

Prince  Edward's  Island,  I  Understand,  contwns  a  popu- 
lation of  eighty  thousand  souls.  Cape  Breton  waa  first 
discovered  by  the  French,  and  called  by  them  L'Isle  Royale. 
It  contains  a  population  of  thirty  thousand,  and  sends  two 
members  to  the  provincial  Assembly  of  Nova  Scotia.  The 
island,  as  I  said  before,  belongs  to  England ;  and  her  naval 
power  in  possession  of  it,  easily  commands  the  whole  St. 
Lawrence. 

We  cast  anchor  in  the  harbor  of  Pictou,  about  dark.  It 
is  a  spacious  baain  formed  by  an  arm  of  the  Gulf  of  St. 
Lawrence,  three  miles  from  its  mouth.  The  small  boats  were 
launched,  and,  after  some  difficulty  with  our  baggage,  we 
were  safely  put  on  shore.  We  made  the  voyage  from  Que- 
bec to  Pictou,  six  hundred  and  fifty  miles,  m  fifty-seven  hours. 
I  waa  up  next  morning  m  good  time  in  order  to  get  a  good 
view  of  the  town.  It  haa  several  churches,  a  court-house, 
and  an  academy.  Population,  eighteen  thousand  souls 
Timber,  coal,  oil,  and  fish,  form  the  principal  articles  of  \ 
trade.  The  town  is  pleasantly  situated.  I  unflerstond 
9' 


I 


« 


mmai^ 


102 


HALIFAX   AND   THE  VOTAGE  TniTIIER. 


there  13  a  high  probability  that  it  -will  yet  bo  tho  great  cm 
porium  of  the  ii  \x\t\  The  harbor  ia  ol'tcn  I'roisen  in  tho  winter. 
The  coaches  were  ready  by  noon,  and,  after  bargiiining  as 
■wo  could  with  men  who  seemed  dotermincd  to  make  tho  most 
of  us,  wo  started  for  Halifax.  The  sky  had  a  very  threat- 
ening aspect,  and  tho  msido  being  quite  full  I  waa  compelled 
to  take  my  seat  with  the  coachman,  which,  however,  afforded 
me  the  advantage  of  seeing  tho  country.  Shortly  the  clouds 
dispersed  and  we  had  a  lovely  day.  As  our  route  lay  many 
miles  through  an  almost  umnhabitod  desert  I  expected  miser- 
able roads ;  but,  to  my  surprise,  they  were  excellent,  equal 
to  any  of  your  Macadamised  roads  m  the  Unit«d  States. 

Some   parts  of  the  country  were   very  thmly  settled ; 
others  a  wilderness  of  trees  and  brushwood.      There  waa 
nothing,  throughout  our  whole  journey  across  Nova  Scotia, 
looked  so  dreary  to  me  as  the  desolate  and  abandoned  hovels 
of  tho  new  settlers.    These  mournful  objects  meet  tho  oye 
in  different  directions,  and  fill  the  mind  with  a  variety  of 
melancholy  sensations.    Ah !  there  is  a  spot  that  pleased 
tho  inexperienced  eye  of  a  poor  exile.      There  he  built  his 
hut  of  rough  logs,  and  thither  he  conducted  the  partner  of 
his  joys  and  sorrows  with  the  little  ones.     Yonder,  with  hia 
brawny  arm,  he  felled  the  lofty  trees,  and  opened  a  path  for 
the  sunshine  to  the  long  neglected  bosom  of  the  earth.    Here 
was  his  first  cleared  field,  still  full  of  black  stumps :   tho 
marks  of  the  spade  and  the  plough,  with  the  appearance  of 
a  scanty  harvest,  are  still  visible.      But  tho  winter  came 
upon  him,  and  the  produce  of  his  two  small  fields,  which  he 
had  stored  so  carefully  in  a  comer  of  his  log  house,  waa  ex- 
hausted before  the  long  and  severe  winter  waa  over.     Ho 
had  no  money  to  buy  provisions,  nor  could  he  and  his  family 
by  any  means  subsist  till  a  conung  harvest.    A  council  waa 
held,  and  he    and  his  wife,  with   weeping   eyes,  bad© 


MMlMMMiMHIIII 


riiER. 

bo  the  great  cm 
zcn  in  tho  winter, 
er  bargaining  as 
to  make  tho  most 
ad  a  very  threat- 
I  was  compelled 
lowever,  afforded 
Shortly  the  clouds 
r  route  lay  many 
I  expected  miscr- 
)  excellent,  equal 
United  States. 

thinly  settled ; 
od.      There  was 
OSS  Nova  Scotia, 
abandoned  hovels 
sets  meet  tho  eye 
with  a  variety  of 
ipot  that  pleased 
rhoro  he  built  his 
Bd  tho  partner  of 
Yonder,  with  his 
opened  a  path  for 
tho  earth.    Here 
lack  stumps:   the 
the  appearance  of 
the  winter  came 
ill  fields,  which  he 
og  house,  was  ex- 
was  over.     Ho 
he  and  his  family 
b.    A  council  was 
!ping   eyes,  bade 


DAUFAX   AXD  THE  VOTAOE  THITHER. 


103 


farewell  to  their  homo  in  the  wilderness,  and  they  never  had 
courage  to  make  a  second  trial  of  the  unkind  soil. 

Wo  travelled  all  night,  and,  as  monxing  opened  upon  us, 
tho  country  greatly  improved,  and  continued  to  do  so  to 
Halifax,  where  wo  arrived  on  the  3d  instant,  in  the  afternoon. 

As  I  related  tho  cause  of  my  detention  in  my  last,  I  need 
not  repeat  it  here.  The  Columbia  sailed  the  evening  I  ar- 
rived. As  soon  a.s  the  Wesleyan  ministers  knew  I  was  ia  town 
they  showed  me  every  mark  of  kindness  and  respect.  Hero 
I  met  my  old  acquaintance,  the  Ilev.  William  Crosscombe, 
who  is  Superintendent  of  the  Halifax  Circuit.  Ho  and  his 
excellent  wife  were  glad  to  see  me.  I  found  them  both  as 
ardent  in  the  cause  of  Christ,  and  as  deeply  devoted  to  God 
as  when  I  parted  with  them  in  1835  at  Montreal.  Mr.  C. 
introduced  me  to  his  colleague,  the  Rev.  Charles  de  Wolfe. 
We  had  not  been  long  together  before  I  found  in  him  a 
kindred  spirit.  We  have  had  some  delightful  rides  over  tho 
peninsula,  and  have  taken  the  sweetest  counsel  on  the  things 
of  God.  He  is  a  most  intelligent  person,  and  possesses 
talent  which  will,  I  have  no  donbt,  enable  him,  if  bpared, 
to  take  the  first  rank  among  the  able  ministers  of  the  New 
Testament. 

A  home  was  provided  for  me  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Billings, 
a  merchant  of  the  city.  He,  with  his  two  daughters,  had 
just  sailed  for  England ;  but  Mrs.  B.,  notwithstanding  all 
her  cares  in  the  absence  of  her  husband,  seemed  delighted 
to  show  me  every  kindness  that  hospitality  could  devise ; 
dear  woman,  she  was  greatly  troubled  at  a  little  incident 
which  I  know  will  amuse  you.  Mrs.  B.  was  inquired  of 
whether  she  could  accommodate  a  stranger  for  a  few  days  at 
her  house  ;  her  mind  being  troubled  about  the  departure  of 
her  husband  and  daughters  for  England,  and  worn  down  with 
the  fatigue  of  getting  them  in  readiness,  she  shrank  from 


I 


104 


HALIFAX    ANP   THE   VOYAGE   TniTHER. 


any  additional  tron'/ic  ;  so,  casting  a  glance  at  the  stranger, 
who  by  the  way  was  far  from  presenting  a  tidy  appearance, 
being  in  hia  travelling  dress,  unshaven,  and  covered  with  the 
dust  of  a  long  journey,  she  gave  a  positive  refusal ;  and, 
indeed,  I  could  not  blame  her.  This  was  Saturday,  and  I 
obtained  lodgings  elsewhere. 

Next  day  she  was  in  her  place  in  the  house  of  God,  and, 
liearing  your  friend  in  one  of  his  happiest  hours  unfolding 
the  wonders  of  redemption,  she  became  sorely  troubled, 
exclaiming  to  herself,  "  Oh  !  what  is  this  that  I  have  done  ? 
I  have  turned  away  from  my  house  a  servant  of  God,  I  have 
turned  away  from  my  door  a  minister  of  Jesus  Christ." 
The  following  morning  she  applied  to  Mr.  Crosscombe,  and 
insisted  I  should  make  her  house  my  home.  I  did  so,  and 
in  her  I  found  a  mother  indeed. 

I  am  now  preaching  every  night  to  good  congregations.  A 
few  have  been  converted  to  God.  Will  you  believe  me  if  I 
tell  you  that  I  visited  the  theatre  while  in  Quebec,  "  The 
Theatre  Royal,"  and  that  I  was  on  the  stage  and  took  part 
in  what  was  going  on ;  that  I  had  authority  to  order  the 
riCicessary  scenery  ;  that  the  theatre  filled  well,  and  that  I 
n'ce't  -*)d  great  B'jijhiTjse  for  my  performances  ?  Well,  so  it 
"  ar  But  it  was  a  temperance  meeting.  I  chose  a  dark 
prison  scene  for  the  drapery  behind  the  stage,  and  brought 
forward  two  prisoners  to  be  tried  before  a  judge  and  jury. 
The  names  of  the  prisoners  were  the  Devil  and  Alcohol 
The  chairman  was  the  judge,  and  all  who  had  not  signed 
the  total  abstinence  pledge  were  the  jury,  and  the  verdict 
agMnst  Alcohol  was  to  be  ^ven  by  the  act  of  signing  the 
pledge.  On  commencmg  my  address,  I  told  them  it  was 
proper,  before  I  preferred  my  charges  against  the  prisoners, 
or  called  forth  my  witnesses,  to  apprize  them  that  I  never  had 
had  the  honor  of  being  a  lawyer,  nor  had  I  ever  had  a  law* 


MMh 


ITIIER. 


HALIFAX   AND   TOE   VOTAQE  TniTHER. 


105 


3  at  the  stranger, 
tidy  appearance, 
covered  with  the 
vo  refusal;  and, 
Saturday,  and  I 

use  of  God,  and, 
hours  unfolding 

sorely  troubled, 

hat  I  have  done  ? 

it  of  God,  I  have 
Jesus  Christ." 

Crosscombe,  and 
I  did  so,  and 

Jngregations.  A 
a.  believe  me  if  I 
I  Quebec,  "The 
ge  and  took  part 
ity  to  order  the 
well,  and  that  I 
3S  ?  Well,  80  it 
I  chose  a  dark 
.ge,  and  brought 
judge  and  jury. 
n\  and  Alcohol 
had  not  signed 
and  the  verdict 
st  of  signing  the 
»ld  them  it  was 
1st  the  prisoners, 
that  I  never  had 
ever  had  a  law- 


suit with  man,  woman,  or  child,  all  the  days  of  my  life ;  and, 
therefore,  that  they  must  not  expect  me  to  adorn  my  speech 
with  legal  phrases,  nor  cramp  myself  with  the  technicalities 
of  that  profession.  Wo  had  a  stirring  time,  and  a  noble 
verdict  against  Alcohol. 

At  the  close  of  the  meeting,  Mr.  Booth,  of  whom  I  thiuk 
you  have  hoard  me  speak  when  in  *  *  *  * ,  and  who  is  the 
father  of  the  temperance  society  m  Quebec,  came  forward  on 
the  stage,  and  taking  from  his  breast  his  own  splendid  medal 
presented  it  to  me,  with  a  very  neat  speech^  in  the  midst  of 
tremendous  applause. 

I  arose  and  returned  thanks  to  Mr.  B.,  and  acknowledged 
the  kindness  of  the  audience,  as  well  as  I  was  capable ;  but, 
really,  I  had  no  command  of  my  feelings  ;  the  thing  was 
so  unexpected  and  so  unmcnted  that  it  almost  unmanned 
me. 

A  few  days  ago,  in  company  with  Mr.  De  Wolfe,  I  visited 
the  rums  of  Prince  William's  Lodge.  (Afterwards  William 
IV .  of  England.)  It  is  situated  about  two  and  a  half  miles 
from  the  isthmus,  on  the  western  banks  of  Bedford  Basin. 
Here,  about  thirty-five  years  ago,  the  young  prince  careered 
in  all  the  dissipation  which  wealth  and  luxury  could  afford. 
The  building  has  been  rather  elegant  in  its  day,  but,  unlike 
the  ancient  castles  of  Europe,  it  is  not  likely  long  to  perpet- 
uate the  memory  of  him  whose  name  it  bears.  It  is  of  wood, 
but  neglect  and  the  extreme  rigor  of  the  climate  have  con- 
spired to  render  it  a  complete  wreck,  so  much  so  that  it  is 
dangerous  to  enter  it.  The  front  is  much  torn  away ;  this, 
and  the  hanging  ceilings,  tottering  floors  and  empty  chambers, 
exposed  to  the  gaze  of  the  visitor,  render  it  an  object  of 
mournful  desolation. 

We  wandered  over  tl..  grounds,  once  laid  out  in  hand- 
fome  walks,  but  now  totally  neglected,  and  overgrown  with 


1 


•^fmmm 


ffiSWRSa?! 


f 


L, 


106 


HALIFAX  AND  THE  VOYAGE  THITHEB. 


grass  and  weeds.     Hero  and  there  vre  espied  little  summer 
houses  painted  white,  and  surrounded  with 

"  Tho  leafy  labyrinth  of  embowering  trees." 

But  the  fingers  of  desolation  are  busy  upon  these  also, 
while  human  fingers  have  been  writing  epitaphs  in  a  great 
variety  of  poetic  fancies.  Several  of  the  verses  penciled 
upon  tho  walls  are  not  without  merit,  principally  on  the 
vanity  of  earthly  things ;  all  tending  to  confirm  that  impor 
tant  sentiment, 

"  He  builds  too  low,  who  builds  beneath  the  skies." 

We  had  not  time  to  copy  any  of  them ;  but,  after  glanc- 
ing at  the  circular  wine-house,  standing  lonely  and  decaying 
upon  a  jutting  promontory  on  the  brink  of  the  basin,  wo 
came  away  mournfully  reflecting,  Here  is  the  place  where 
the  prince  revelled  iu  all  the  luxuriance  of  English  living  ; 
but  he  has  gone  to  the  grave,  and  a  singular  frown  of 
desolation  seems  to  hang  over  the  scenes  of  his  former 
pleasures. 

God  has  a  good,  a  lovely  people  in  Halifax.  Our  meet- 
in^^os  are  delightful.  There  is  a  move  among  sinners,  and 
one  now  and  again  converted  to  God.  Here,  as  in  most 
places,  I  met  with  a  little  prejudice  against  the  adoption 
of  extraordinary  means  for  the  revival  of  the  work  of  God ; 
but,  I  doubt  not,  could  I  remain  here  two  or  three  months 
longer,  all  feeling  of  this  kind  would  vanish,  and  we  should 
have  a  warm  and  general  cooperation  from  all  who  love 
CImst  and  the  souls  of  men.  But  I  caimot  stay.  To-mor- 
row,  if  God  permit,  I  shall  sail  for  England.  If  his  provi- 
deico  conduct  me  safely  over  the  great  deep,  you  may 
expec*.  to  hear  of  me  from  some  part  of  that  country. 

ITie  other  mght  I  gave  a  lecture  on  temperance.    Tho 


**    ■'i»J«l(A35SSi 


-i«S?JTOiin'"i'??f: 


r^smnummmmrnmuijunmrniitmri 


. 


HITHER. 

ipiod  little  summer 
th 

;ree8." 

y  upon  these  also, 
pitaphs  in  a  great 
le  verses  penciled 
principally  on  the 
jonfirm  that  impor 

the  skies." 

;  but,  after  glanc- 
mely  and  decaying 
of  the  basin,  we 
I  the  place  where 
>f  English  living ; 
Jmgular  frown  of 
aes  of  his  former 

ifax.  Our  meet- 
nong  sinners,  and 
Here,  as  in  most 
linst  the  adoption 
ibe  work  of  God ; 
I  or  three  months 
ah,  and  we  should 
rom  all  who  love 
ot  stay.  To-mop- 
d.  If  his  provi- 
1  deep,  you  may 
,t  country, 
emperauce.    The 


UALIFAX  AND  THE  VOYAQE  TUITUER. 


107 


audience  was  very  large,  and  for  a  time  appeared  passionless ; 
but  when  I  got  fairly  into  my  subject,  the  cool-tempered 
Nova  Scotians  gave  ample  proof  that  they  were  capable  of 
the  highest  excitement.  Every  man,  woman,  and  child, 
seemed  resolved  they  would  never  diink  another  drop  of 
intoxicating  liquor.  Two  dogs,  which  had  followed  their 
masters  to  the  meeting,  got  full  as  much  excited  as  any  of 
the  rationals,  and  gave  their  full-mouthed  applause  in  their 
own  way.     So  we  had  what  Thomas  describes  so  nervously, 

"  The  clamor  roars  of  man  nnd  boys  and  dogs." 

Success  to  the  Nova  Scotians.  If  they  are  not  as  hearty  as 
they  should  be  m  reli^on,  I  am  glad  to  sec  them  at  least 
whole-souled  on  the  temperance  subject.  Perhaps  the 
following  anecdote  may  not  be  unacceptable  :  — 

Previous  to  the  above  meeting,  a  committee  of  the  city 
temperance  society  waited  upon  me,  and  brought  with  them 
an  old  gentleman,  who  is  a  member  of  our  church  and  a 
wai-m  advocate  of  temperance,  to  introduce  them.  In  the 
course  of  the  conversation  he  said,  "  This  morning  I  was  sit- 
ting in  the  barber's  shop,  and  my  large  dog  was  waiting  for 
me  near  the  door.  A  man  came  in  who  is  an  habitual 
dmnkard.  He  has  made  efforts  several  tunes  at  reformation, 
but  has  again  and  again  fallen  into  his  intemperate  habits. 
This  morning  he  was  sober  and  thoughtful.      I  said  to  him, 

"  'Do  you  see  that  dog  ?* 

" '  Yes,  I  do,'  siud  he,  *  and  a  fine  one  he  is  too.' 

"  I  then  ordered  the  barber's  boy  to  hand  me  an  empty 
glass,  and  I  held  it  toward  the  dog's  mouth  ;  but  the  poor 
animal  sneaked  away  with  his  tail  between  his  legs,  as  iif  ho 
were  ashamed,  or  was  a^out  to  receive  a  severe  chastisement. 
The  poor  fellow  expressing  some  surprise,  I  asked  hira  if  he 


MISi«8fi!m!(n9*  ;#i  'T*!*!!''  P"  ■•.r»rr 


;j«ii.«S-i  ;;»;■.■"•**•  re-jr'.?«  ■■-■-» 


I 


t 


if 


i  I* 


^1 


if 


108 


HALIFAX    AND   THE   VOVAGE  TUITIIER. 


knew  the  reason  why  that  dog  sneaked  away  so.  '  No,  Sir ; 
why  does  he  that  ? ' 

" '  Well,  friend,  that  dog  was  once  made  drunk,  and  ever 
since,  if  a  glass  is  held  out  to  him  thus,  he  acts  just  so.  This 
is  a  Newfoundland  dog.  Several  years  ago  some  fishermen 
of  that  country  made  him  drunk ;  and  such  is  his  hatred, 
on  that  account,  toward  any  of  the  craft,  that  if  a  fisherman 
or  fisherman's  boy  should  hold  but  the  glass  to  him  he  would 
capsize  him  in  a  moment.     He  would  bite  him.' 

"  My  hearer  felt  the  reproof,  and  made  his  e^t,  not  without 
receiving  a  lesson  wHch  I  trust  may  be  made  a  lasting 
blesnag." 


fiii 

gr 
Hi 
nu 
wc 
ste 
an 
an 

g« 
th( 
Th 
Bh( 
ev( 
he 

bui 


dili 

] 

the 


•V  ^.*fei-''^r;--tA^  J**:'.<(tSW?SW^4"'-i-'i!iB^:siS3IR-ia'i 


f<ij^Rsm9im^M^'.itm^iikmtmu/^Wi^tissm»m 


HITHER. 

•ay  SO.    *  No,  Sir; 

le  drunk,  and  ever 
acta  just  so.  This 
;o  some  fishermen 
ich  is  his  hatred, 
;hat  if  a  fisherman 
53  to  him  he  would 
him.' 

IS  exit,  not  without 
e  made  a  lasting 


CHAPTER  IX. 

THE     ATLANTIC     VOYAGE. 

As  the  reflective  reader  peruses  this  chapter,  he  will  not 
filil  to  notice  the  inflexible  adhesion  of  our  traveller  to  the 
grand  object  of  his  mission.  In  the  friendly  outpouring  of 
his  soul  in  this  characteristic  correspondence,  i.d  has,  with 
manifest  unconsciousness,  revealed  its  devotion  to  its  chosen 
work  of  soul-saving.  Amidst  the  mixed  society  of  the 
steamship  he  maintains  the  character  oi  the  Christian  laborer, 
aud  is  ready  to  grapple  in  argument  with  the  sceptic,  to  utter 
an  adroit  and  cutting  rebuke  to  the  gambler,  to  preach  the 
gospel  alike  to  the  purse-proud  voyager  in  the  cabin,  and  to 
the  poor  sailor  in  the  forecastle.  This  is  as  it  should  be. 
The  Christian,  and  more  especially  the  Christian  minister, 
should  see  his  field  of  labor  evory  where ;  and  seize  upon 
every  opportunity  to  work  for  his  master.  No*  only  should 
he  be  heroic, 

"  la  the  world's  broad  field  of  battle," 

but  also 

"In  the  Uvouoc  of  life." 

In  house,  shop,  street,  ship,  every  whore  he  should  keep 
diligently  at  his  master's  work. 

It  is  in  this  devoted  spirit  we  find  our  revivalist  traversing 
the  "  boundless  sea."  But  why  is  he  found  there  at  all? 
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THE   ATLANTIC    VOYAGE. 


Why  is  he  not  moving  in  the  quiet  sphere  of  a  village  or  city 
pastor  ?  Why  does  he  encounter  the  dreary  storm  ? — The 
dangers  and  unpleasantness  of  the  ocean  waste  ?  Why  goes 
he  to  another  land  ?  Does  he  expect  to  be  greeted  by  tho 
open  hands  and  burning  hearts  of  affectionate  friends  ?  Nay ! 
His  friends  are  behind  him.  None  but  strangers  will  he 
meet  on  the  shores  to  which  be  hastes.  Why  then  does  he 
go  at  all  ? 

Reader !  Our  traveller  believes  God  has  a  work  for  him 
to  do  in  the  British  Islands.  He  travels  as  a  special  ambas- 
sador for  Christ !  Faith  in  his  call  to  this  high  mission  is  his 
only  support.  Inspired  by  this  faith  alone,  he  approaches  a 
land  already  fiUed  with  ministers,  many  of  whom  rank  far 
above  him  in  portion,  influence,  talent,  leammg,  and  skill ! 
How  Qmxotic  and  fanatical  if  self-inspired !  How  sublime 
in  his  faith ! — how  simple  in  his  obedience  if  called  of  God ! 
But  let  us  join  him  on  this  ocean  voyage. 


On  the  19th  of  July,  1841, 1  went  aboard  the  steamer 
Britannia,  Captain  Clellan,  and  sailed  about  seven,  P.  M. 
T  spent  fifteen  days  in  Halifax,  preached  eighteen  sermons ; 
several  sinners  were  converted  to  God,  and  one  class-leader 
professed  to  have  received  the  blessing  of  entire  sanctiflca- 
tion.  I  formed  an  acquaintance  with  some  of  the  excellent 
of  the  earth  in  that  city,  several  of  whom  accompanied  me 
to  the  ship.  No  sooner  had  we  cleared  the  harbor,  than  I 
began  to  be  sick.  The  Lord  favored  us  with  fine  weather 
till  Saturday  morning.  That  was  a  bleak  morning  to  me. 
Nothing  was  to  be  seen  but  sky  and  water.  Our  ship  was 
tossed  about  upon  the  angry  waves  like  a  feather.  We 
could  well  believe  the  sentiment  of  a  poet : 

"  The  wave  bcliind  impels  the  wave  before ; 
The  waves  that  rise  would  drawn  the  highest  hill." 


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THE  ATLANTIC  VOYAGE. 


Ill 


af  a  village  or  city 
sary  storm? — The 
^aste  ?  Why  goes 
be  greeted  by  tho 
ite  friends  ?  Nay ! 
strangers  will  he 
Vhj  then  does  he 

las  a  work  for  him 
s  a  special  ambas- 
I  high  nusfflon  is  his 
},  he  approaches  a 
of  whom  rank  far 
3ammg,  and  skill ! 
id !  How  sublime 
)  if  called  of  God ! 


loard  the  steamer 
)out  seven,  P.  M. 
eighteen  sermons ; 
i  one  class-leader 
'  entire  sanctifica- 
e  of  the  excellent 
L  accompanied  me 
he  harbor,  than  I 
with  fine  weather 
k  morning  to  me. 
ir.  Our  ship  waa 
a  fea&er.     We 


fore; 
highest  hUl." 


Now  the  vessel  was  lying  across  the  deep  trough  of  two 
foaming  billows,  and  again  hanging  on  the  dreadful  steeps  of 
a  mountain  wave.  Sometimes  both  wheels  were  out  of  the 
water ;  at  others,  one  wheel  would  be  buried  deep  in  the 
troubled  sea,  while  tho  other  was  several  feet  from  the  sur- 
face. It  was  astonishing  to  see  under  what  perfect  com- 
mand our  en^eer  had  the  steam  and  machinery.  The 
surgeon  told  me  the  greatest  caution  and  vi^lance  were 
required  to  regulate  the  power  in  proportion  to  the  dip  of  the 
wheels ;  as  error  or  neglect  would,  in  a  few  moments,  be 
attended  with  the  most  fatal  consequences  to  the  machinery. 

To  lie  in  my  berth  I  could  not,  to  sit  still  when  out  of  it 
was  impossible ;  so,  with  a  few  other  determined  spirits,  I 
clambered  to  the  hurricane  deck.  Here  we  walked,  or  ran, 
or  staggered,  or  sprawled,  according  to  the  force  of  circum- 
stances ;  and  if  some  of  these  poor  sinners  had  never  read 
Psahn  cvii.  23—28,  they  did  at  this  time  receive  a  most 
striking  comment  upon  the  passage.  While  some  of  us  were 
battling  with  the  tremendous  motion,  resolving  to  keep  on 
our  legs  in  spite  of  all  the  laws  of  gravitation,  we  amused 
ourselves  with  the  reflection,  if  the  sea  does  not  succeed  in 
finding  us  pleasure,  we  are  quite  sure  it  affords  us  employ- 
ment. 

I  thought  of  the  man  who,  when  asked  what  were  the  first 
principles  and  principal  parts  of  eloquence,  replied,  "Action  ! 
action !  action !"  If  so,  the  deck  of  a  ship  in  a  storm  is  the 
place  to  learn  action.  There  is  not  a  gesture  peculiar  to  tlie 
eloquent  orator  that  he  will  not  be  forced  to  imitate,  uidess 
be  cUng  to  the  bulwarks  with  his  head  over  the  sidie^  like 
some  timid  preachers  [  have  seen,  who  seemed  determined 
not  to  lose  the  pulpit  although  they  might  their  argument. 
Head  and  arms,  and  legs  and  feet,  are  all  in  motion ;  some* 
■'mcs,  mdeed,  not  tho  most  graceful,  as,  in  "  the  storm  and 


112 


THE  ATLANTIC  VOYAQB. 


passion  of  the  soul,"  it  is  diffiult  to  avoid  "  overstepping  tlio 
modesty  of  nature ;"  but  some  arc  the  most  graceful  imagin- 
able. Nor  should  we  forget  the  expression  of  the  counte- 
nance at  particular  seasons,  nor  the  eye  in  "  fine  frenzy 
rolling,"  all  indicative  of  the  strongest  emotions  in  the  region 
of  the  heart.  If  a  man  have  acquired  &a  awkward  method 
of  walking,  this  is  the  place  to  get  clear  of  it,  for  here  he  is 
put  through  all  the  varieties  of  gait  poor  human  nature  is 
capable  of.  If  he  choose  to  indulge  in  soliloquies,  and  he 
■will  be  much  inclined  to  do  so,  he  can  relieve  himself  most 
pathetically  without  disturbing  any  body,  as  the  most  of  those 
around  him  are  as  prone  to  the  same  indulgence  as  hunself ; 
and  the  nimble  winds  will  carry  away  his  voice  with  the  roar 
of  the  waves  and  rigging  he  knows  not  whither.  Here  he  is 
"  alone  'midst  busy  multitudes." 

And  this  is  the  spot  to  exercise  the  lungs,  and  give  com- 
pass to  the  voice.     Only  let  our  soirdisant  orator  have  an 
audience  of  two  or  three,  and  resolve  to  be  heard ;  if  he  sue 
ceed,  he  need  never  have  any  mis^vings  about  making  the 
most  distant  persons  of  thousands  hear.     I  wondered  that 
Demosthenes  should  have  stood  by  the  sea  shore  to  exercise 
himself  in  oratory,  anudst  the  roar  of  the  waves  ;  had  he 
only  put  out  from  the  land  when  the  storm  was  abroad  upon 
the  deep,  he  might  have  studied  at  one  and  the  same  time 
gesture  and  elocution.     The  promenade,  or  what  some  call 
the  hurricane  deck,  is  the  place  to  exercise  one's  judgment, 
I  mean  during  a  gale.     For  instance,  two  or  three  dozen 
waves  are  coming  on  with  the  swiftness  of  race  horses.     Now 
the  question  is,  what  part  of  the  vessel  will  they  strike  first  ? 
On  the  starboard  or  larboard  ?     The  head  or  stem  ?     In 
what  direction  is  it  likely  the  groaning  ship  will  lurch  2 
What  degree  of  inclination  in  the  opposite  direction  will  bo 
safest  and  most  necessary  to  neutraliss©  these   "eccentric 


n 

h 

Cl 

S( 


L 


"  overstepping  the 
st  graceful  imagin- 
on  of  the  counte- 
B  in  "  fine  frenzy 
tions  in  the  region 

awkward  method 
f  it,  for  here  he  is 

human  nature  is 
sohloquies,  and  he 
icve  himself  most 
}  the  most  of  those 
Igence  as  himself ; 
oice  with  the  roar 
ther.    Here  he  is 

p,  and  give  cbm- 

it  orator  have  an 

heard ;  if  he  sue 

about  making  the 

I  wondered  that 

shore  to  exercise 

!  waves  ;  had  he 

was  abroad  upon 

d  the  same  time 

)r  what  some  call 

one's  judgment, 

>  or  three  dozen 

ce  horses.     Now 

they  strike  first  ? 

d  or  stem?    In 

ship  will  lurch  ? 

direction  will  bo 

hese   "  eccentrio 


THE   ATLANTIC   VOTAOE. 


118 


laws  of  gravitation  ?"     Shall  I  incline  to  the  north  or  south, 
c;iat  or  west  ?    At  an  angle  of  how  many  degrees  ?     Quick ! 
alas !  I  am  flat  on  the  deck,  or  clinging  to  the  bulwarks, 
holding  on  in  desperation,  while  I  am  greatly  at  a  loss 
whether  to  show  my  displeasure  at  the  outrageous  laughter  of 
my  more  fortunate  companions,  or  at  the  fickle  ship  and 
unsteady  elements,  or  retreat  at  once  from  the  scene  of  my 
humiliation.     The  wisest  way,  however,  is  to  do  neither. 
Every  mishap  of  this  kind  must  be  taken  in  good  part ;  and 
it  is  generally  thought  no  small  mark  of  talent  and  good 
breeding,  when  a  man  can  gather  himself  up  without  embar- 
rassment, and  rejoin  the  company  m  a  manner  the  most 
graceful  and  easy.     I  assure  you  many  have  found  it  very 
difficult  to  avoid  the  indulgence  of  a  secret  wish,  that  the 
good  ship  would  try  aa  experiment  upon  some  of  the  rest, 
especially  the  merry  ones.    Then  here  a  man  may  learn 
how  to  treat  the  world,  and  it  is  a  fine  opportunity.    If  many 
are  walking  to  and  fix)  we  must  always  be  willing  to  go  out 
of  the  straight  line  of  an  intended  course,  in  order  to  avoid 
concussions  with  our  fellow-travellers.    We  must  bear  and 
forbear,  live  and  let  Uve,  and  join  hands  sometimes  to  keep  a 
poor  fellow  on  his  feet.    If  a  lurch  of  the  vessel  has  sent  a 
fellow-passenger  adrift,  so  that  he  has  lost  all  authority  over 
his  limbs,  do  as  you  would  be  done  by,  catch  him  if  you  can, 
but  if  not  without  a  violent  collision,  let  him  go, 

"  To  run,  or  walk,  or  swing,  or  tumble ; 
A»  matter  and  b«  motion  jumble." 

Thig  is  the  place  to  learn  forbearance.  If  a  friend  crosses 
my  path,  and  treats  me  to  an  upset,  I  must  not  get  out  of 
humor ;  the  enemies  outside  are  to  blame,  and  they  don't 
care  a  farthing  for  our  wrath.  It  is  hard  to  feel  quite  right 
sometimes.  For  instance,  a  stupid  fellow  is  gawking  around, 
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114 


THE  ATLANTIC   VOYAUB. 


and  not  minding  what  he  ia  about ;  a  sudden  jerk,  and  away 
he  comes  like  an  avalanche,  and  "  at  one  feU  swoop  "  you 
are  level  with  the  deck  ;  and,  if  you  keep  your  temper,  you 
may  reason  with  philosopMc  Locke,  '•  If  a  greater  force  than 
mine  holds  me  fast,  or  tumbles  me  down,  I  am  no  longer 
free."    And  if  you  have  the  good  fortune  to  get  clear°of 
the  grappling  limbs  of  your  vulgar  companion,  and  have  the 
privUege  of  shiftmg  for  yourself  as  you  roU  along,  whether 
you  AvUl  or  not,  you  may  experiment  upon  another  plain 
principle  of  philosophy,  laid  do^vn  by  a  thinking  man  ;  and 
if  you  are  too  busy  in  other  matters  I  am  sure  the  spectatora 
will  think  for  you:  "  When  a  man  tumbles  a  roller  down  a 
hill,  the  man  is  the  violent  enforcer  of  the  first  motion ;  but 
when  it  is  once  tumbling,  the  property  of  the  thing  itself  con- 
tinues the  motion." 

Well,  the  day  passed  away  slowly.  I  am  sure  it  waa  the 
most  bleak  and  tedious  day  of  my  existence ;  a  day  never  to 
be  forgotten.  But  the  motion  outside  was  nothing  when 
compared  with  the  "  dread  commotion  of  my  interior  aetf." 
Milton  somewhere  talks  about 

"  Prodiglons  motion  felt,  and  rueful  throee." 

I  wonder  if  the  poet  was  ever  searsick.  No  one  who  has 
ever  felt  this  "prodigious  motion,"  and  these  "rueful 
throes,"  will  ever  wonder  at  the  strong  expressions  of  ano- 
ther poet : — 

"  Ceue,  cease,  thou  foaming  ocean, 
For  what's  thy  troubled  motion, 
To  that  within  my  breast  ?" 

As  night  approached  the  wind  lulled  considerably,  but  strong 
necessity  kept  me  on  my  feet  till  eleven  o'clock! 

As  I  was  pacing  the  deck  with  tolerable  steadinew,  a  little 
man  stepped  up  to  me,  and  entered  into  convwsation  upon 


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n  jerk,  and  away 

fell  swoop"  you 

rour  temper,  you 

;reater  force  than 

I  am  no  longer 

to  get  clear  of 

on,  and  have  the 

I  along,  whether 

>n  another  plain 

iking  man ;  and 

re  the  spectators 

a  roller  down  a 

rst  motion;  but 

thing  itself  con- 

i  sure  it  was  the 

a  day  never  to 

J  nothing  when 

y  interior  self." 


No  one  who  has 

these   "rueful 

ressions  of  aao- 


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THE  ATLANTIO   VOYAQB. 


115 


religious  subjects.     Perceiving  that  he  loved  to  talk,  and 
quite  preferred  to  be  the  principal  speaker,  and  not  being 
much  in  the  talking  mood  myself,  his  "  ruling  passion  "  had 
free  scope.    Finding  mo  so  teachable,  ho  began  to  open  his 
mind  ujion  all  subjects  which  ho  thought  a  man  of  my  age 
should  have  long  since  understood.     The  character  of  his 
mind  assumed  a  mongrel  complexion,  part  Quaker  and  part 
Deist.     War  he  abhorred,  and  all  kinds  of  priestcraft ;  and 
all  priests  were  brimful  of  war  and  priestcraft,  priests  of 
every  denomination.     All  denominations  of  Christians  were 
wrong ;  the  Quakers  were  the  nearest  right,  but  somewhat 
astray  also.     I  told  him  I  entertained  a  very  high  respect 
for  pious  clergymen  of  all  denominations.     This  aroused  him, 
and  he  recapitulated  his  arguments,  as  he  thought,  in  a  most 
convincing  manner.     I  then  began  to  put  the  little  man  on 
the  defensive,  by  proposing  questions  and  starting  objections, 
but  carefully  avoided  affirming  any  thing.    For  a  time,  as  I 
still  retained  the  character  of  a  learner,  he  retained  his  good 
humor ;   but  finding,  what  I  before  suspected,  that  it  waa 
much  easier  to  ask  questions  than  to  answer  them,  he  be- 
came very  boisterous.     His  voice,  not  by  any  means  pleas- 
ing, arose  in  shrilkess  to  a  squeak ;   so  if  one  storm  had 
subsided,  here  was  the  beginning  of  another.     It  waa  very 
gratifying  to  him  that  I  should  be  the  humble  pupil,  but  it 
became  rather  hazardous  for  the  pupil  to  confound  the  tutor. 
The  dilemma  was  sometimes  most  humiliating.    After  labor- 
ing hard  upon  some  plain  question,  and  that  too  with  Ae 
generous  prolixity  of  one  who  said  on  another  occasion,  "  I 
know  your  mind,  and  I  will  satisfy  it ;  neither  will  I  do  it 
like  a  niggardly  answerer,  going  no  fiirther  than  the  bounds 
of  the  question."      Poor  fellow,  going  beyond  "  the  bounds 
of  the  question"  involved  him  again  in  other  questions, 
until  he  found  himself  msuch  a  labyiinth  that  he  lost  aU 


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THE   ATLANTIC   VOYAQE. 


patience,  and  called  me  a  "blockhead,"  "  a  most  ignorant 
inan,"  "  exceedingly  weak-minded,"  "  incapable  of  under- 
Btanding  or  appreciating  an  argument,"  etc. 

I  told  him  all  that  might  bo  very  true ;  but,  as  I  had 
placed  myself  in  the  capacity  of  a  learner,  he  must  not  get 
out  of  humor  with  me,  but  have  patience.  Then,  in  great 
pity,  ho  would  again  condescend  to  my  weakness  of  intellect, 
and  would  try  to  make  the  thing  appear  as  plain  as  A  B  C  ; 
but  ibis  gave  rise  to  other  objections,  and  he  was  driven  to 
his  wit's  end  to  explain  and  defend  some  palpable  contradic- 
tions. At  last  he  exclaimed,  "  You  are  either  a  knave  or 
a  fool." 

I  replied,  in  the  height  of  good  humor,  "  I  do  not  feel 
greatly  desirous  of  setting  you  right  as  to  what  I  am,  but  I 
do  assure  you  your  self-conceit,  to  say  the  least,  has  involved 
you  in  the  fog  ;  so  that  I  will  venture  to  say,  you  don't  know 
to  which  pomt  of  the  compass  to  steer  for  the  rest  of  your 
argument." 

But  I  was  quite  mistaken.  After  calling  me  some  hard 
names  he  steered  for  the  stairway  of  the  promenade  deck 
and  disappeared,  to  the  no  small  amusement  of  one  or  two 
passengers  who  had  kept  close  to  our  heels  during  the  con- 
versation. I  happened  to  be  wrapped  in  my  cloak  that  night, 
and  concluded  he  would  not  know  me  in  the  day-time  ;  but 
he  did,  and  was  exceedingly  shy  for  several  days;  but, 
before  our  voyage  was  over,  he  became  very  sociable,  and 
never  once  recurred  to  our  first  acquaintance  on  the  prom- 
enade deck. 

Another  incident  occurred  one  night,  either  before  or 
after,  I  am  not  sure  which.  I  was  sitting  in  the  saloon  read- 
ing. A  number  of  gentlemen  had  commenced  on  my  right 
hand  playing  cards.  I  concluded  not  to  retire,  and  continued 
reading.    The  author  suggested  a  few  thoughts,  and  as  I 


"  a  moat  ignorant 
ipablc  of  under- 

• 

;  but,  as  I  bad 
ho  must  not  get 
Then,  in  great 
incsa  of  intellect, 
plain  as  A  B  C ; 
10  was  driven  to 
ilpable  contradic- 
lithcr  a  knave  or 

"I  do  not  feel 
ivhat  I  am,  but  I 
ast,  has  involved 
,  you  don't  know 
the  rest  of  your 

g  me  some  hard 
promenade  deck 
nt  of  one  or  two 
during  the  con- 
cloak  that  night, 
day-time ;  but 
sral  days;  but, 
ry  sociable,  and 
0  on  the  prom- 

sithcr  before  or 
the  saloon  read- 
ced  on  my  right 
J,  and  continued 
ights,  and  as  I 


THE  ATLANTIC  VOTAGB. 


117 


was  in  the  act  of  noting  them  down  in  my  pocket-book,  ono 
of  the  party  turned  round  from  his  cards  and  said,  "  You 
are  making  extracts,  eh  ?  " 

I  answered.  Yes,  and  turned  his  attention  to  the  Ixxiii. 
Psalm.  I  told  him  there  was  great  beauty  and  majesty  in 
the  whole  Psalm;  but  the  16th,  17th,  18th,  and  19th  verses 
were  very  significant :  "  When  I  thought  to  know  this,  it 
•was  too  painful  for  me  ;  until  I  went  into  the  sanctuary  of 
God ;  then  understood  I  their  end.  Surely  thou  didst  set 
them  in  slippery  places :  thou  castedst  them  down  into  de- 
struction. How  are  they  brought  into  desolation,  as  in  a 
moment !  they  are  utterly  consumed  with  terrors." 

It  appears.  Sir,. the  Psalmist  was  pained,  if  not  bewildered, 
on  beholding  the  prosperity,  apparent  happiness  and  security, 
of  ungodly  men.  He  had  been  viewing  them  from  various 
points  of  observation,  but  never  could  find  his  mind  other 
than  in  a  state  of  confusion  respecting  them,  till  he  took  his 
position  in  the  sanctuary  of  God.  You  know,  Sir,  I  con- 
tinued, that  landscape  painters  have  to  change  their  position 
often  before  they  are  satisfied  as  to  the  best  and  most  com- 
manding view  of  the  scenery.  One  of  these  will  wander  up 
and  down,  from  rock  to  rock,  and  from  one  jutting  promon- 
tory to  another,  until  he  lights  upon  a  spot  which,  above  all 
others,  affords  the  most  superior  view.  So  it  was  with  the 
Psalmist,  when  his  post  of  observation  was  "  the  sanctuary 
of  God,"  where  he  had  a  commanding  view  of  eternity ; 
heaven  and  hell  were  now  spread  before  the  eye  of  his  faith ; 
then  it  was  he  saw  the  dreadful  precipice,  upon  the  slippery 
steeps  of  which  the  sinners  of  his  day  were  sporting ;  and 
he  exclaimed,  in  a  way  he  never  could  before,  *'  Surely  thou 
didst  set  them  in  slippery  places ;  thou  castedst  them  down 
into  destruction.  How  are  they  brought  into  desolation,  as 
in  a  moment !  they  are  utterly  consumed  with  terrors." 


MMM 


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118 


THE   ATLANTIC   VOYAGE. 


The  caru  player  waa  very  uneasy,  and,  n^  soon  as  I  had 
closed  my  remarks,  his  head  turned  the  other  way,  and  he 
took  good  care  not  to  ask  me  any  more  questions,  lie 
•  neither  liked  the  position  I  occupied,  nor  was  he  satisfied 
with  his  own.  Who  knows  but  even  this  seed  sown  upon  tlio 
■waters  of  the  broad  Atlantic  may  yet  sprbg  up  and  brin'i 
forth  fruit  unto  eternal  life  ? 

But  to  return.     That  stormy  Saturday  and  its  night  passed 
away,  as  other  days  and  nights  have  done,  and  a  pleasant 
Sabbath  succeeded.    The  captain  requested  mo  to  preach 
to  the  passengers,  which  I  did  about  eleven  o'clock,  to  as 
many  as  the  large  saloon  would  hold.     Text,  Hebrews  vii.  25. 
All  were  very  attentive,  God  was  there,  and  a  very  gracious 
uiBuence  seemed  to  rest  upon  every  mmd.     I  described 
Christ  as  the  only  acceptable  medium  of  access  to  God : 
"  Come  unto  God  by  him."      Two  ways  of  approach  unto 
God  were  then  pointed  out.    First.  To  come  unto  God  for 
pardon  and  salvation.     Second.  To  wait  tiU  wo  are  driven 
to  be  judged  and  damned.     I  insisted  that  God  and  the  sin- 
ner must  meet  in  this  world  or  the  next.     That  the  man 
who  will  not  come  unto  God  to  be  pardoned  must  at  last 
suffer  the  driving  process.      Ho  must  be  driven  to  God  for 
judgment,  and  from  thence  into  hell.     Again :  That  it  was 
just  as  possible  to  be  damned  in  coming  to  God  in  a  forbid- 
den manner,  as  in  not  coming  at  all ;  and  commented  upon 
the  sixteenth  chapter  of  Numbers. 

My  second  proposition  was  the  encouragement  we  have  to 
come  unto  God  by  Christ.  First.  His  ability  to  save, 
"He  is  able,"  etc.  Second.  Eis  willingness,  "He  ever 
liveth  to  make  intercession  for  us.'^  An  interceding  Jesus 
proves  he  is  a  willing  Saviour.  Third.  The  extent  to  which 
his  ability  and  willingness  can  go  to  save  us,  "  To  the  utter- 
most."   Concluded  with  an  exhortation. 


-•mka 


THB  ATLA.NTIO    VOYAQB. 


119 


,  Oil  soon  as  I  had 
other  way,  and  lie 
'0  questions,  llo 
■  waa  ho  satisfied 
)ed  somi  upon  tho 
ng  up  and  bring 

nd  its  night  passed 
e,  and  a  pleasant 
ed  mo  to  preach 
^en  o'clock,  to  as 
;,  Hebrews  vii.  25. 
d  a  very  gracious 
id.     I  described 

access  to  God: 
)f  approach  unto 
me  unto  God  for 
U  wo  are  driven 
God  and  the  sin- 
That  the  man 
ned  must  at  last 
Iriven  to  God  for 
am :  That  it  was 

God  in  a  forbid- 
commented  upon 

ment  we  have  to 
abiUty  to  save, 
;nes3,  "  He  ever 
iterceding  Jesua 
extent  to  which 
,  "Totheutter- 


I  did  not  Intend  it,  but  I  have  scribbled  away  till,  lo  !  you 
have  the  outline  of  my  first  sermon  on  the  Atlantic.  At  tho 
close  of  tho  service  the  captain  invited  me  to  preach  to  tho 
crew,  which  I  did  after  dinner.  It  was  very  sweet  and 
solemn  to  hear  the  tolUng  of  the  ship's  bell.  Many  of  tho 
passengers  mingled  with  the  sailors.  The  vessel  rolled  about, 
but  I  contrived  to  stand  pretty  firmly,  while  discussing 
Hebrews  xi.  7.  Thus  ended  the  feeble  labors  of  another 
blessed  Sabbath  of  my  existence. 

On  Monday  tho  waves  ran  very  high,  but  I  had  become 
quite  a  sailor ;  had  some  pleasant  conversations  with  several 
of  the  passengers,  and  spent  part  of  the  day  in  assisting 
a  German  to  the  right  pronunciation  of  some  English  words 
with  which  ho  had  great  difficulty. 

The  weather  continued  rough,  and  the  restleM  sea,  oh ! 
what  shall  I  say  ? 

"  Wave  rolling  aftsr  wove  in  torrent  laptare  1" 

But  day  and  night  our  fine  steamer  nev  -r  paused.  Orward  she 
pressed  to  her  port  amidst  a  thousand  insults.  The  prophet 
Habakkuk  speaks  of  the  "  deep  uttering  his  ?oice,  and  lift- 
ing  up  his  hands  oa  lugh."  Many-fisted  waves  were  lifted 
up,  and  thousands  of  theaa  would  como  rushing  oe  in  rapid 
succession,  like  so  many  giants,  each  more  eager  than  the 
other  to  strike  and  overwhelm  her ;  some  would  fotah  hor  a 
bloTtr  right  m  the  face,  and  hr,lf  a  dozen  on  tho  side  of  tho- 
head;  while  others  threw  1,hex<i' Ives  entire  upon  her;  but 
rolling  and  staggering,  sho  mounted  upon  their  lack.-*  aTi-l 
"  ran  through  a  troop,"  while  thousands  of  her  enemies  fell 
beneath 


"  Those  fleshless  arms,  whose  pulses  beat 
With  floods  of  living  fire  I" 


«»miiH«»>itiM  mi  .uiJl  \i 


r-»i.ii.ii.8  mum.". 


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120  THE  ATLANTIC  VOYAGE. 

Ill  the  cudnight  hour  or  at  the  morning  dawn  we  could  hear 

"  The  beating  of  her  restless  heart, 
Still  Bonnding  through  the  storm  I  ** 

Afl  we  were  fljing  along  the  face  of  the  waters,  reflect- 
ing that  Beven  days  had  nearly  passed  away  since  we  lost 
sight  of  the  American  continent,  wo  were  cheered  with  the 
exclamation,  "Land!  land!"  and  "land!  land!"  was 
re-echoed  from  every  part  of  the  ship.  In  a  short  time  we 
were  close  upon  the  northern  coast  of  Ireland ;  and  ahout 
dark  we  ran  down  between  Torry  Island  and  Ireland,  in  the 
midst  of  an  angry  sea.  The  moment  we  lost  our  hold  upon 
any  part  of  the  vessel  we  were  dashed  about  like  footballs. 
Next  morning  we  were  still  close  upon  the  shores  of  Ireland ; 
and  m  the  course  of  a  few  hours  we  found  ourselves  runninj: 
along  the  coast  of  Wales.  The  pleasant  hills  of  old  England 
rapidly  opened  to  our  \dow,  with  Liverpool  in  the  distance. 
After  a  pause  of  a  few  minutes,  in  order  to  receive  a  pilot, 
we  entered  the  river  Mersey,  and  landed  about  seven  o'clock 
on  the  evening  of  the  29th  of  July.  We  made  the  passage 
from  Halifax  to  Liverpool  in  not  quite  ten  days ;  the  quick- 
eeif  1  have  been  informed,  on  record. 


-rtl*i1fti|flrri.iaaii mmtTt 


iwn  we  could  hear 

't 

I" 

le  waters,  reflect- 
away  since  we  lost 
e  cheered  with  the 
md!  land!"  was 
In  a  short  time  we 
reland ;  and  about 
md  Ireland,  in  the 
lost  our  hold  upon 
bbout  like  footballs, 
shores  of  Ireland ; 
I  ourselves  nmning 
tills  of  old  England 
si  in  the  distance, 
to  receive  a  pilot, 
ibout  seven  o'clock 
e  made  the  passage 
,  days ;  the  quick- 


CHAPTER    X. 

THE   DENOUEMENT. 

Theke  is  something  exquisitely  touchmg  in  the  siaple  and 
natural  narration,  which  Mr.  Caughey  ha.s  given  below,  of 
his  mental  exercises  on  arriving  at  Liverpool.    Guided  by 
an  impression,  which  worldly  men  and  formal  professors 
would  treat  with  positive  contempt,  and  which  even  truly 
Bpuitual  nunds  would  regard  with  a  degree  of  suspicion,  he 
had  left  his  quiet  pastorate  in  Vemont,  buffeted  the  violence 
of  the  ocean's  storms,  and  arrived  in  the  land  which  was 
divinely  designated  as  the  theatre  of  his  future  successes. 
But,  who  would  believe  in  his  mission  ?    Who  would  put  faith 
in  an  impresmn,  which,  however  potent  and  authoritative  to 
his  own  mind,  could  have  little  weight  with  others,  especially 
with  strangers.     Indeed,  to  confess  the  cause  of  his  coming 
would  certainly  render  him  obnoxious  to  the  charge  of  enthu- 
siasm.   Knowmg  all  this,  is  it  wonderful  that  a  spirit  of  sad- 
ness took  possession  of  his  heart  ?    Can  we  feel  surprised 
to  read  that  a  sense  of  loneliness,  a  feeling  of  perplexity,  an 
apprehension  of  evil  disturbed  his  spirit  ?    Nay !    All  this 
was  perfectly  m  accordance  with  human  nature ;  while,  the 
degree  of  serenity  he  did  retain,  the  patience  with  which  he 
waited  for  God  to  open  an  effectual  door,  and,  above  all,  the 
tenacity  with  which  his  heart  clung  to  the  reality  of  his  call^ 
and  the  certainty  of  Us  final  success,  exhibit  him  in  ao 
aspect  of  true  moral  sublunity ;  of  holy  heroism ;  of  a  man 
11  121 


! 


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122 


TllE  DENOUEMENT. 


whoso  convictions  of  duty  are  intelligent,  sincere,  enduring 

and  any  thing  but  the  ofispring  of  fanaticism.     But  wo  mus^ 

let  him  relate  his  own  interesting  story  of  his  emotions,  as  he 

walked  the  streets  of  Liverpool  and  followed  the  guiding  hand 

of  God.    lie  says : — 


All  are  strangers,  and  every  thing  is  strange.  I  have 
walked  from  street  to  street,  and  from  place  to  place,  un- 
knowing and  unknown.  Although  I  have  prayed  without 
ceasing,  it  is  no  easy  matter  to  keep  my  heart  from  sinkhig 
into  despondency ;  but,  as  I  have  experienced  this  state  of 
mind  so  frequently  before  some  remarkable  success  in  my 
ministry,  it  docs  not  much  discourage  me,  although  it  is  pain- 
ful. I  have  not,  as  yet,  formed  a  single  acquaintance  in 
Liverpool,  if  I  except  my  good  landlord  of  the  Saracen's 
Head  Hotel ;  who,  by  the  way,  is  an  excellent  man,  and 
keeps  a  very  good  house,  as  good  as  any  Christaan  traveller 
could  require.  I  have  found  his  family  prayer  very  profit- 
able to  my  soul.  I  enjoyed  sweet  communion  with  God 
during  the  voyage,  with  a  very  deep  sense  of  my  entire 
nothingness.  Often  did  I  think  when  walking  the  deck,  If 
God  did  not  intend  to  make  the  weak  things  of  the  world 
confound  the  things  which  are  mighty ;  and  base  things,  and 
things  which  are  despised,  and  things  which  are  not,  to  bring 
to  nought  things  that  are ;  he  never  would  have  chosen  and 
called  me,  nor  have  sent  me  forth  on  this  solemn  and  impor- 
tant tour. 

What  is  before  me  I  know  not,  but  I  deeply  feel  there  are 
Bore  trials  approaching.  My  mind  is  very  unsettled  as  to 
what  course  I  ought  to  take,  or  where  I  should  open  my 
commission ;  but  my  soul  is  calmly  awaiting  orders  from 
above.  Several  times  to-day  I  have  had  thoughts  of  going 
immediately  into  France  and  Italy,  as  this  is  the  best  season 


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THE   DEXOUEMENT. 


123 


sincere,  enduring 
sm.     But  wo  mus* 
his  emotions,  aa  he 
d  the  guiding  hand 


strange.  I  have 
)laco  to  place,  un- 
re  prayed  without 
leart  from  sinking 
need  this  state  of 
iblo  success  in  my 
although  it  is  pain- 

0  acquaintance  in 
of  the  Saracen's 

KceUent  man,  and 
Christian  traveller 
rayer  very  profit- 
munion  mth  God 
jnse  of  my  entire 
Iking  the  deck.  If 
lings  of  the  world 
d  base  things,  and 
h  are  sot,  to  bring 

1  have  chosen  and 
solemn  and  impor- 

eply  feel  there  are 
y  unsettled  aa  to 
should  open  my 
iting  orders  from 
thoughts  of  going 
is  the  best  season 


of  the  year  to  see  those  countries ;  but  a  voice  in  my  solitary 
heart  seems  to  say,  "  No,  if  you  go  there  now,  you  must 
go  alone,  for  God  will  not  go  with  you."  My  heart  con- 
stantly replies.  Then  if  God  will  not  go  with  me  there,  God 
forbid  I  should  attempt  it.  As  it  is  written,  "  The  steps  of 
a  good  man  are  ordered  by  the  Lord."  I  have  some  confi- 
dence that  God  is  by  this  method  controlling  and  ordering 
my  steps ;  but  he  commands  me  no  where,  and  I  am  doing 
nothing  for  God  here.  There  is  nothing  to  be  seen  that 
would  afford  me  any  comfort  so  long  as  I  do  not  see  lost  sin- 
ners coming  home  to  God. 

The  English  Conference  is  now  sitting  m  Manchester ;  I 
am  undecided  whether  to  visit  it  or  not.  The  preachers,  no 
doubt,  will  be  all  engaged ;  and,  as  I  have  no  particular 
business  there,  I  should  be  as  much  alone  as  here.  I  must 
close  this  letter  in  a  state  of  entire  uncertainty  respecting 
my  providential  path.  My  soul  is  sitting  at  God's  footstool 
having  no  will,  but  referring  all  to  hun,  saying,  "  Lord, 
God,  if  thou  hast  sent  mo  forth,  direct  my  goings." 

These  statements  open  his  heart  to  our  inspection  at  a 
most  interesting  period  of  his  movements.  And  this  is  one 
of  Mr.  C.'s  peculiarities.  Not  only  in  his  writings,  but  also 
in  social  life  and  in  the  pulpit,  he  is  remarkable  for  the 
transparency  of  his  character.  He  seems  to  have  nothing 
to  conceal,  and  is  willing  you  should  look  into  the  secret 
workings  of  his  soul.  How  delightful,  too,  is  the  place  and 
position  of  his  soul  at  this  trying  period,  "  Sitting  at  GocTa 
footstool,  having  no  will."  He  did  not  have  to  sit  thus  a 
great  while.  A  faint  light  guided  him  to  Manchester.  He 
describes  his  visit  thither  in  the  following  langiia^e  : 

On  the  afternoon,  after  much  prayer,  I  started  for  Man- 


I 


■imwwwmiiiijwi 


THE  DENOUEMENT. 


Chester  by  railroad,  arrived  tliore  about  dark,  and  put  up  at 
the  Star  Hotel.  Next  day,  Sabbath,  I  heard  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Bunting.  High  as  were  my  expectations,  I  was  not  disap- 
pointed. His  sermon  was  a  clear  and  beautiful  exposition 
of  that  striking  text,  Hebrews  ii.  10.  It  was  just  such  a 
discourse  as  only  a  master  in  Israel  could  preach.  The 
Doctor  appeared  in  excellent  health,  and  was  listened  to 
with  breathless  attention.  In  the  evening,  at  another  chapel, 
I  heard  the  Rev.  John  M'Lean,  on  Romans  x.  4,  and  was 
highly  delighted.  I  was  exceeduigly  pleased  with  the  man, 
his  manner,  and  his  language.  Thee  was  a  gracious  unc- 
tion in  every  part  of  the  sermon.  I  am  sure  much  good  was 
done,  and  could  he  have  stayed  at  the  prayer-meeting  which 
followed  the  sermon,  and  assisted  the  brethren  by  his  pres- 
ence and  influence  "  to  dmw  the  net  ashore,"  I  am  per- 
suaded a  multitude  would  have  been  entangled  within  its 
ample  sweep.  As  it  was,  a  few  came  forward  to  bo  prayed 
for,  but  none  appeared  to  have  tlie  mfluence  of  Mr.  M'Lean. 
The  people  gradually  left  the  house,  and,  I  tliink,  none  were 
converted  to  God.  I  mourned  about  it,  still  I  believe  it  did 
not  return  unto  the  Lord  void ;  but  the  frequent  failures  of 
such  powerful  discourses,  as  it  regards  the  immediate  gather- 
ing in  of  awakened  sinners,  have  made  me  suspicious. 

I  formerly  cast  out  the  net  in  this  way  and  retired,  with- 
out taking  the  trouble  to  see  whether  any  soul  had  got 
entangled  therem  ;  and  for  months  together  I  was  not  aware 
of  a  single  seal  to  my  ministry.  The  brethren  would  often 
Bay,  "  We  are  on  the  eve  of  a  powerful  revival,"  but  when 
next  Sabbath  came,  sinners  were  as  far  from  G^'l  as  ever, 
and  were  once  more  ready  to  play  around  and  inside  my 
harmless  net.  At  last  I  came  to  the  determination  that  I 
would  stand  by  my  net  with  tears  and  many  prayers,  and 
that  I  would  not  leave  the  fishing-place  till  I  had  seen  what 


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THE  DENOUEMENT. 


125 


rk,  and  put  up  at 
ird  the  Kcv.  Dr. 
I  was  not  disap- 
autiful  exposition 

was  just  such  a 
lid  preach.    The 

was  listened  to 
it  another  chapel, 
ins  X.  4,  and  was 
led  with  the  man, 
i  a  gracious  unc- 
re  much  good  was 
er-meeting  which 
hren  by  his  pres- 
ore,"  I  am  per- 
ingled  within  its 
ard  to  bo  prayed 
)  of  Mr.  M'Lean. 

tliiuk,  none  were 
11 1  believe  it  did 
iqucnt  failures  of 
nmediate  gather- 
suspicious, 
nd  retired,  with- 
ny  soul  had  got 

I  was  not  aware 
uren  would  often 
vival,"  but  when 
om  G(»\  as  ever, 
d  and  inside  my 
rmination  that  I 
my  prayers,  and 

I  had  seen  what 


success.  Then  it  was  I  began  to  see,  more  abundantly,  the 
positive  fruit  of  my  labors.  Sometimes,  indeed,  we  have 
"  toiled  all  night,"  and  have  "caught  nothing ;"  but  then 
we  had  this  satisfaction,  The  net  has  been  drawn  ashore,  and 
we  have  done  the  best  we  could ;  the  fish  have  escaped  this 
time,  but  next  Sabbath,  by  the  help  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  I 
will  endeavor  to  have  my  net  ready  to  let  down  "  on  the 
right  side  of  the  ship,"  so  constructed,  and  of  such  materials, 
that  sinners  will  find  it  diflScult  to  run  through  it  or  get  dis- 
entangled from  it.  There  is  much  meaning  in  that  invitation 
and  promise  which  Jesus  gave  to  Simon,  and  Andrew  his 
brother,  as  they  were  casting  then*  net  into  the  sea  of  Gal- 
ilee, "  Come  ye  after  me,  and  I  will  make  you  to  be  fishers 
of  men." 

Is  there  not  also  an  important  lesson  in  that  singular  illus- 
tration used  by  our  Lord,  in  the  thirteenth  of  Matthew: 
"  The  kingdom  of  heaven  is  like  unto  a  net  that  was  cast 
into  the  sea,  and  gathered  of  every  kmd,  which,  when  it  was 
full,  they  drew  to  shore,  and  sat  down  and  gathered  the 
good  into  vessels,  but  cast  the  bad  away  ?"  When  a  minis- 
ter's health  will  allow  him,  and  suitable  persons  are  willing 
to  assist,  a  lively  prayer  meeting  after  the  evening  sermon 
greatly  promotes  the  design  of  the  Christian  nunistry. 

On  Monday  I  heard  the  Rev.  Robert  Newton  preach  what 
is  called  the  "  Conference  sermon,"  text,  1  Cor.  i.  23.  The 
chapel  was  literally  crammed.  He  carried  us  along  on  the 
majestic  stream  of  his  eloquence  during  an  hour,  and  closed 
amidst  hearty  expressions  of  satisfaction  and  joy,  especially 
from  his  admiring  brethren  in  the  ministry.  Mr.  Newton 
looked  qmte  as  well  as  when  I  saw  him  in  New  York,  ia 
1839.  In  the  evening,  the  candidates  for  ordmation  related 
their  convermon  and  call  to  the  work  of  the  ministry,  before 
a  rery  crowded  audience. 
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126 


THE  DENOUEMENT. 


Next  day  I  sent  my  ordination  parchmentg  into  Confer- 
ence,  with  the  recommendatory  letter  of  my  Conference, 
when  a  ticket  of  admittance  was  sent  me,  signed  by  the  Presi- 
dent, the  Rev  James  Dixon.  Here  I  became  acquainted 
with  several  of  the  preachers.  The  Rev.  William  Lord,  of 
Hull,  showed  me  great  kmdness,  and  gave  mo  a  presanc 
invitation  to  visit  that  town.  I  was  introduced  to  the  Rev. 
Thomaa  Waugh,  and  the  Rev.  William  Stewart,  representa- 
tives from  the  Irish  Conference.  Mr.  Waugh  received  me 
with  all  that  full-toned  ardor  which  is  so  peculiarly  Irish. 
His  heart  was  open  to  me  in  a  moment ;  and  learning  that  I 
intended  to  visit  Ireland,  he  took  his  pen,  and  wrote  me  a 
letter  of  introduction  to  all  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  ministers 
in  Ireland.  Mr.  Stewart  is  the  most  agreeable  and  enter- 
taining companion  I  have  ever  met.  It  would  be  impossible 
for  you  to  be  in  his  company  five  minutes  without  thinking 
of  Pr ...erbs  iii.  17. 

After  the  pleasure  of  dining  with  several  members  of  Con 
ference,  among  whom  was  Dr.  Harjiah,  once,  you  will 
remember,  the  representative  to  the  American  general  Con- 
ference, I  stepped  into  a  railway  carriage,  and  arrived  once 
more  in  Liverpool.  It  was  then  strongly  impressed  upon  my 
mind  to  sail  for  Dublin,  although  I  did  not  know  a  human 
being  there.  After  much  prayer  I  felt  fu'ly  persuaded  that 
this  was  the  path  of  Providence.  When  walking  towards 
the  docks,  I  noticed  that  two  steamers  were  to  sail  that 
evening ;  and  as  the  charge  for  a  cabm  passage  in  one  was 
only  half  as  much  as  the  other,  I  chose  the  cheapest,  and  for 
once  in  my  life  I  paid  dearly  for  my  economy.  We  encoun- 
tered a  very  heavy  gale  during  the  night ;  some  of  the  pas- 
sengors  were  much  alarmed,  but  I  slept  most  profoundly  till 
morning.  A  gentleman  came  down  into  the  cabin  before  I 
arose,  and  said,  «  We  have  a  heavy  gale,  and  it  is  right  in 


THE  DENOUEMENT. 


127 


ents  into  Confor- 
'  my  Conference, 
gncd  by  the  Presi- 
jcamo  acquainted 
William  Lord,  of 
'0  me  a  presang 
iuced  to  the  Rev. 
swart,  represcntur 
lugh  received  me 
»  peculiarly  Irish, 
id  learning  that  I 
I,  and  wrote  me  a 
ethodist  ministers 
cable  and  enter- 
>uld  be  impossible 
without  thinking 

members  of  Con 
once,  you  will 
jan  general  Con- 
and  arrived  once 
ipressed  upon  my 
>t  know  a  human 
y  persuaded  that 
walking  towards 
rare  to  sail  that 
issage  ill  one  was 
cheapest,  and  for 
ly.  We  encoun- 
some  of  the  pas- 
st  profoundly  till 
16  cabin  before  I 
and  it  is  right  in 


our  teeth.  The  wind  says  to  our  steamer,  No,  and  the  en- 
^e  says.  Yes,  faintly.  We  are  making  about  two  miles  an 
hour."  On  going  upon  deck,  to  my  surprise,  we  were 
only  creeping  along  the  coast  of  Wales  :  our  progress  had 
been  very  slow  during  the  night,  as  wo  were  only  a  few 
miles  from  Liverpool.  Now  I  found  out  my  mistake ;  instead 
of  taking  the  mail  steamer  I  had  gone  aboard  a  heavy  freight- 
boat.  During  the  gale  I  resorted  to  my  old  method  of  deck 
walking,  but  a  few  steps  convinced  me  tlus  must  be  aban- 
doned. 

Well,  if  I  could  not  use  my  feet,  I  held  on  with  my  hands, 
and  gave  employment  to  my  eyes,  in  scanning  the  mountain- 
ous scenery  of  Wales.  We  had  terrible  tossings  along  the 
coast  of  the  Isle  of  Anglesea. 

After  gaining  Holyhead  we  steered  with  a  straight  course 
for  Dublin,  at  which  place  we  landed  about  midnight.     I  put 
up  at  the  hotel  of  the  Northumberiand  Buildings.     Next 
morning  I  arose  in  good  health,  but  with  great  moumfulness 
of  spirit.      Throughout  the  day  my  mind  was  sorely  de- 
pressed.    I  thought  of  what  the  Lord  said  to  the  Israelites : 
"  Ye  know  the  heart  of  a  stranger,  seeing  ye  were  strangers 
in  the  land  of  Egypt."     The  day  was  wet,  the  streets  ex- 
tremely dirty,  and  wherever  I  went  I  was  surrounded  with 
swarms  of  the  most  impjriunate  beggars.     Their  pleadings 
for  help  against  hunger  and  dictress  were  the  most  doleful 
you  could  imagine.      After  some  difficulty,  I  found  the 
preacher's  house  in  Whitefriar's  street.     On  presenting  Mr. 
Waugh's  letter  of  introduction,  I  was  received  with  great 
kindness  by  the  Rev.  Robinson  Scott.     A  few  momenta  in 
his  company  convinced  me,  this  man  is  entirely  devoted  to 
God ;  and  an  acquaintance  of  several  weeks  has  confirmed 
and  deepened  the  impression.    After  a  short  conversation, 
which  greatly  cheered  my  mind,  he  conducted  me  to  Lower 


THE   DENOUEMENT. 


Abbey  street,  and  introduced  me  to  tlie  junior  preacher,  the 
llev.  George  Vance.  With  liira  my  heart  was  united  in  a 
few  momenta.  Thus,  in  the  same  day,  I  formed  an  acquaint- 
ance with  two  servants  of  God,  which  every  day's  intercourse 
endears,  and  for  which,  I  beUeve,  I  shall  praise  God  through- 
out eternity.  A  few  days  after,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  being 
introduced  to  their  excellent  colleague,  the  Rev.  Henry 
Price.  On  Saturday  night,  after  I  had  retired  to  rest,  Mr. 
Vance  called  at  the  hotel,  and  requested  me  to  preach  the 
next  day  at  the  Henderick  street  chapel,  to  which  I  agreed. 
Next  morning  my  soul  was  sorely  bufifeted  by  Satan. 
"  Your  adversary  the  devil,"  says  St.  Peter,  "  aa  a  roaring 
lion,  walketh  about,  seeking  whom  he  may  devour."  He 
roared  against  my  soul.  The  forty-second  Psalm,  and  the 
following  lines,  express  what  I  then  felt :  — 

A*  pants  the  wearied  hart  for  cooling  springs, 
That  sinks  exhausted  in  the  summer's  chase, 

So  pants  my  soul  for  thee,  great  King  of  kings, 
So  thirsts  to  reach  thy  secret  resting  place. 

On  briny  tears  my  famished  soul  hath  fed. 
While  taunting  foes  deride  my  deep  despaii'; 

Say,  where  is  now  thy  Great  Deliverer, 
Thy  mighty  God,  deserted  wanderer,  where  ? 

Why  throb,  my  heart  ?    Why  sink,  my  saddened  sonl  ? 
^  Why  droop  to  earth,  with  various  woes  oppressed  ? 

My  years  shall  yet  in  blissful  circles  roll, 
J^i  joy  be  yet  an  inmate  of  my  breast 

I  know  this  experience  will  not  Burpriae  you,  for  our 
blessed  Lord  said  to  his  disciples,  "  My  soul  is  exceedmg 
sorrowful,  even  unto  death."  I  had  no  doubt  of  the  favor 
of  God,  nor  that  the  blood  of  Christ  had  cleansed  me  from 
all  sin,  but  my  soul  was  like  the  grapes  in  the  wine-press. 
Have  you  over  read  those  beautiful  lines  of  Rer.  Charles 


ttitMumimm 


r  preacher,  the 
was  united  in  a 
cd  an  acquajnt- 
ifs  intercourse 
le  God  through- 
Icasure  of  being 
)  Rov.  Henry 
red  to  rest,  Mr. 
e  to  preach  the 
(vhich  I  agreed, 
feted  by  Satan. 
,  "  as  a  roaring 
devour."  He 
Psalm,  and  the 


lase, 
se. 


lali'; 

ere? 

Idened  sool  ? 
ippressed  ? 


e  you,  for  our 
il  is  exceeding 
ibt  of  the  favor 
cansed  me  from 
the  ■wine-press. 
)f  Rev.  Charles 


THE   DENOUEMENT. 


129 


Wesley,  descriptive  of  the  mental  conflicts  of  Tliomas  Walsh, 
who  died  in  this  city  many  years  ago  ? 

Impatient  to  ho  truly  great, 

Ambitious  of  a  crown  above ; 
He  coveted  the  higheat  leat, 

He  a«k&d  the  gift  of  perfect  love. 

He  asked,  alas  !  but  knew  not  then, 

The  purport  of  his  own  desire, 
Eow  deep  that  cup  of  sacred  pain. 

How  searching  that  baptismal  fire. 

The  Lord  allowed  his  bold  request. 

The  servant  is  called  fortli  to  share 
That  anguish  of  a  wounded  breast, 

Those  pangs,  which  only  God  could  bear. 

Who  drank  in  his  sad  days  of  flesh, 

The  potion  by  his  Father  given. 
And  bids  his  members  feel  afresh. 

The  fierceness  of  the  wrath  of  Ucaven. 

A  taste  of  that  mysterious  cup, 

His  faithful  follower  now  received, 
And  filled  his  Lord's  afflictions  up. 

While  grief  beyond  description  grieved. 

The  above  is  perhaps  too  strong  for  my  experience  at  tlua 
time,  but  my  soul  was  amazed  and  sorely  tried. 

After  taking  breakfast  with  a  few  pious  persons,  at  Mr. 
Vance's  lodgmgs  in  Abbey  street,  a  young  brother  conducted 
me  to  Henderick  street.  The  congregation  was  small.  To 
them,  for  the  first  time  in  Europe,  I  opened  my  commission, 
from  John  xvii.  1 :  "  Father !  the  hour  is  come."  The  Lord 
touched  the  hearts  of  several,  and  a  gracious  influence  rested 
on  the  whole  congregation.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  ser- 
vice I  quietly  retired  through  a  door  under  the  pulpit,  and 
regained  the  street,  little  imagining  the  8ti».which  had  been 
excited  among  the  dear  people  in  the  chapel.    Some  were 


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180 


TUE  DENOUEMENT. 


Baying,  "  Wlio  is  ho  ?"  others,  "  What  Ls  his  name  ?"  Ono 
little  party  were  iiKiuiring,  "Who  sent  him  hero?"  and 
another,  were  fully  of  opinion  that  "  this  stranger  should  bo 
invited  to  preach  again  at  night." 

In  the  mean  time  I  and  my  guide  were  hastening  back 
again  to  Abbey  street  chapel,  to  receive  the  sacrament. 
Two  brethren,  William  Fielding  and  Richard  Craig,  who 
have  since  been  very  valuable  friends  to  me,  were  dispatched 
after  us,  and  when  they  overtook  us  they  presented  the  wish 
of  the  people.  I  consented  on  condition  it  should  be  agree- 
able to  the  preachers.  They  soon  obtained  permission,  and 
that  night  I  preached  to  a  large  congregation  with  a  good 
degree  of  Uberty.  An  influence  from  heaven  rested  upon 
the  leaders ;  and,  after  a  consultation  with  their  ministers,  it 
was  resolved  to  hold  "special  services"  during  the  week, 
"  to  promote  a  revival  of  the  work  of  God."  I  agreed  to 
preach  four  nights,  but  with  the  secret  determination  to  leave 
the  follo^ving  week.  I  loft  the  hotel  on  receiving  a  pressing 
invitation  from  Mr.  Fielding  to  make  his  house  my  home. 
Towards  the  latter  part  of  the  week  we  found  ourselves  sur- 
rounded with  weeping  penitents.  The  glory  of  the  Lord 
filled  the  house,  and  sinners  were  daily  converted  to  God. 
We  continued  these  services  in  this  chapel  during  four  weeks. 
A  select  meeting  was  then  appointed  for  the  young  converts, 
and  ono  hundred  and  thirty  persons  came  forward  to  testify 
that  God,  for  Christ's  sake,  had  pardoned  all  their  sms. 

All  the  young  converts  were  very  clear  as  to  the  distinct 
manner  in  which  they  had  been  awakened,  as  well  as  in  the 
time  and  place  of  their  conversion.  This  will  be  of  no  small 
assistance  to  them  m  their  future  conflicts,  if  they  prove  faith 
ful.  A  Christian  has  groat  advantage  over  the  enemy  of 
his  soul,  when  ha  can  confidently  refer  to  the  precise  place 
and  exact  time  of  his  adoption  into  the  family  of  God.    My 


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TIIK   UEXOt'EMENT. 


131 


lis  name  ?"  One 
him  hero?"  and 
ranger  should  bo 

I  hastening  back 

I  the  sacrament, 
lard  Craig,  who 
,  were  dispatched 
•esented  the  wish 
should  be  agree- 
[  pemussion,  and 
,tion  with  a  good 
ven  rested  upon 
;helr  ministers,  it 
uring  the  week, 
1."  I  agreed  to 
nmatlon  to  leave 
eiving  a  pressing 
house  my  home, 
id  ourselves  sur- 
3ry  of  the  Lord 
inverted  to  God. 
uring  four  weeks. 

young  converts, 
brward  to  testify 

II  their  sins. 

13  to  the  distinct 
as  well  as  in  the 
ill  be  of  no  small 
they  prove  faith 
er  the  enemy  of 
10  precise  place 
ily  of  God.    My 


soul  was  much  comforted  in  beholding  such  an  affecting  scone. 
The  language  of  my  heart  was, — 

"  Who,  1  oak,  In  nmaze, 

Hatli  liogdtteii  1110  tlicso  V 
And  iiiijuirc  fnim  wlmt  (innrtcr  they  came  : 

My  full  heart  i!  rcpHci, 

Thcj-  are  boni  Crom  tho  skies, 
And  gives  glorj-  to  God  and  the  I.amb." 

It  would  be  impossible,  my  dear  friend,  to  tell  you  how 
severe  were  my  mental  trials  during  the  four  weeks  I  spent 
in  this  chapel.     Sometimes  it  did  appear  as  though  the  devil 
would  have  torn  me  to  pieces.     Fiery  darts  were  cast  at  mo 
as  thick  aa  hail.     My  soul  was  almost  continually  pressed 
down  by  a  weiglit  that  was  scarcely  supportable  ;  and  yet 
the  adversary  could  not  touch  either  my  justification  or 
sanctification.     His  evident  design  was  to  drive  me  out  of 
the  city.     He  constantly  insisted,  "  You  shall  not  bo  per- 
mitted to  enjoy  any  comfort  in  Dublin,  so  you  had  better  be 
off."    The  Lord,  I  believe,  on  the  other  hand,  showed  mo, 
if  I  would  leave  before  he  gave  me  liberty,  I  should  be  no 
bettor  off  in  any  other  place.     I  therefore  determined  to 
fight  it  out,  and  bear  patiently  the  grievous  curses  of  this 
infernal  SMmei,  2  Samuel  xvi. ;  and  curse  me  he  did,  by 
day  and  night,  from  street  to  street,  m  the  pulpit  and  out  of 
it ;  but  I  continued,  with  all  my  might,  to  win  sinners  to 
Christ.     He  never  insinuated  that  he  would  have  me  in  hell, 
nor  that  I  was  a  hypocrite,  nor  any  thing  of  the  kind ;  but, 
that  if  I  would  mjure  his  kingdom,  he  would  injure  me  ;  that, 
if  I  should  keep  up  hostilities,  he  would  do  the  same ;  and, 
at  least,  deprive  me  of  all  comfort.    Allow  mo,  however,  my 
dear  friend,  to  say,  that  I  was  often  compelled  to  acknowl- 
edge :  —  , 

"  Calm  amidst  tremendous  motion, 
Knowing  that  my  Lord  is  nigli; 

Waves  obey  him, 
And  the  storms  berore  him  fly." 


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Till:   Dli.NOLEMENT. 


At  a  particular  time,  I  opened  on  Ezckiel  xlvii.  3 — 6, 
which  gave  mo  great  cncouragctneiit.  The  first  real  check 
the  devil  received  from  God  was  when  I  was  walking  in  tho 
Pljocnix  Park,  near  tho  city.  God  then  camo  down  upon 
my  soul  in  mighty  power.  Tho  enemy  was  silenced,  and 
1  rojoiced  "  with  joy  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory."  Satan 
returned  again  with  more  caution  and  less  confidence.  God 
then  put  a  hook  in  his  jaws,  and  said,  "  Thus  far  thou  shalt 
go,  but  no  farther."  There  were  other  particular  seasons  of 
divine  visitations  to  my  soul,  in  which  God  "  half  revealed 
his  face."  Tho  consciousness  of  the  immediate  presence  of 
God  to  my  soul  was  deep  and  unutterable. 

You  will  remember  that  I  related  to  you  some  gracious 
rcvcalings  of  a  spiritual  nature,  before  I  left  America,  mi 
which  I  thought  God  condescended  to  converse  with  laj 
spirit,  and  gave  mo  many  special  directions  for  the  gmdanco 
loth  of  my  present  and  futuii  movements.  It  was  in  tho 
same  manner,  though  far  clearer,  and  with  greater  power 
and  unction,  an  invisible  agent  seemed  to  hold  conversation 
with  my  soul ;  in  which  promises,  directions,  and  encourage- 
ments, were  given  in  quick  succession.  My  spirit  waa  often 
as  still  as  the  midnight  hour,  and  the  commimings  of  an 
active  agent  were  as  perceptible  as  any  conversation  I  ever 
had  with  a  visible  friend.  More  I  cannot  venture  to  say  at 
present.  Of  this  I  am  persuaded,  I  shall  see  some  striking 
displays  of  the  power  of  God  in  the  conversion  of  sinners. 
The  following  came  with  uncommon  force  :  "  I  will  he  with 
thee  whithersoever  thou  shalt  go,  to  deliver  thee."  Also 
tho  passage,  John  xiv.  21 — 23. 

The  state  of  my  soul  during  these  divine  visitations  was 
that  of  deep  self-abasement.  A  solemn  and  an  oppressive 
awe  rested  upon  my  whole  nature ;  yet,  strange  as  it  may 
appear,  my  soul  was  weaker  than  a  bruised  reed.    The  more 


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THE   DEXOUEMKNT. 


133 


zokiel  xlvii.  8 — fi, 
lie  first  real  check 
'OS  walking  m  tho 
came  down  upon 
was  silenced,  and 
of  glory."  Satan 
confidence.  God 
hu3  far  thou  shalt 
rticular  seasons  of 
td  "  half  revealed 
jdiato  presence  of 

ou  some  gracious 
left  America,  iu 
jonverso  with  mj 
s  for  the  guidance 
ts.  It  was  in  tho 
ith  greater  power 
hold  conversation 
IS,  and  encouragc- 
ly  spirit  was  often 
communings  of  an 
Dnversation  I  ever 
venture  to  say  at 
see  some  striking 
ersion  of  sinners. 
:  *'  I  will  be  with 
iver  thee."    Also 

ne  visitations  was 
md  an  oppressive 
strange  as  it  may 
.  reed.    The  more 


fii'mly  I  leii^vcd  and  rested  upon  tho  divine  promises  and 
counhels,  tho  more  I  gained  strength ;  and  when  such  man- 
ifestatio.js  in  a  'i:reat  measure  coaaed,  I  received  iii  their 
place  a  larger  measure  of  tho  {lerfoct  love  of  God.  But 
you  are  ready  to  iuqmro,  "  Had  you  no  doubts  whethersuch 
communications  came  from  God  ?  "  No,  I  cannot  say  I  had, 
they  came  in  such  a  way,  and  with  such  an  holy  unction,  aa 
to  leave  no  room  for  doubta.  I  may  also  add  there  was 
nothing  in  them  to  excite  my  suspicion,  nothmg  contrary  to 
the  written  mrd  of  God ;  if  so,  I  should  have  rejected  them 
with  horror ;  nothing  that  did  not  lead  to  purity  and  entire 
devotedncss  to  Ood. 

When  th^  Rev.  Thomas  Waugh,  the  Superintendent  of 
tliis  Circuit,  returned  from  England,he  was  made  acquainted 
with  the  .-jmazing  work  of  God  going  on.  He  iii>mediately 
sanctioned  my  moveweiits,  placed  the  fullest  conf  donee  in 
me,  and  told  me  to  go  on  in  my  own  way.  From  then  till 
nowf  he  has  been  ever  ready  to  open  any  door  of  usefulness 
to  me  within  his  power;  I  thank  God  for  such  a  friend. 
This  long  commimication,  which  I  know  will  rejoice  your 
heart,  as  well  as  many  of  my  other  dear  friends  in  America, 
I  must  now  close.  The  revival  is  going  oji  in  another  chapel 
with  great  power.  BetM^een  two  and  three  hundred  sinners 
have  been  converted  to  God.  Glory,  eternal  glory,  be  to 
that  God,  Tvho 

♦    *    »    "  Movta  in  a  n»> TtiTions  way, 
His  *..j'Jor»  to  j-srform ; " 

and  who,  adored  be  Ms  name  I  can, — 

"  Tliougti  bell  weaves  snares  a  tlioasand  ways, 
Place  mercy  central  iu  the  maze  I " 

My  friends  may  make  themselves  perfectly  easy  respflct- 
big  my  temporal  circumstances ;    I  have  ail  and  abound 
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184 


TUE   DENOUEMENT. 


The  Dublin  people  are  proverbial  for  their  hospitality  to 
strangers ;  but  I  can  say  of  them,  as  the  queen  of  Shela 
said  of  the  wisdom  of  Solomon,  "  Behold,  the  half  was  not 
told  me." 

Yesterday  was  a  graeious  day  to  my  soul  in  the  Abbey 
street  chapel.  The  mterior  is  spacious  and  elegant,  has  a 
fine  organ,  and  the  congregation  is  second  to  none  I  have 
ever  seen ,  either  in  respectability  or  intelligence.  My  mom- 
mg  text  \i'as  Deut.  viii.  2.  Many  acknowledged,  with  stream- 
ing eyes,  the  mercies  of  God,  and  the  designs  of  his  provi- 
dence. In  the  afternoon  fifty  persons,  who  had  been  con- 
verted lately  in  this  chapel,  came  forward  to  ^ve  public 
thanks  to  God  for  lus  pardoning  love.  At  night,  to  a  congre- 
gation of  not  less  than  two  thousand,  I  cried,  "  How  long 
halt  ye  between  two  opinions  ?  "  &c.  1  Kings  xvui.  21.  It 
was  an  awful  time ;  seventy  persons  came  forward  as  peni- 
tents, and  many  found  mercy. 

In  the  nudst  of  these  successful  labors  Mr.  Caughey's 
nund  was  subjected  to  an  unusually  severe  temptation  from 
Satan.  He  viewed  this  assault  as  a  part  of  the  tactics  of 
the  Great  Enemy  of  all  good  to  hinder  the  revival  in  Dublin. 
He  therefore  met  the  adversary  with  boldness ;  he  endured 
hardness  like  a  good  soldier  until  he  won  a  vicfbry.  To  the 
editor,  these  spiritual  traits  are  among  the  most  interesting 
portions  of  his  letters .  They  illustrate  so  encouragingly 
the  sameness  of  mimstcrial  experience,  and  fumi»h  a  fine 
example  of  fidelity  and  endurance.  Who  can  behold  ?«&. 
Caughey,  anudst  these  Satanic  floods,  rismg  as  they  did  in 
furious  waves,  standing  firmly  on  the  "Bock  of  ages," 
steadily  keeping  his  great  work  in  view,  and  laboring  with  a 
zeal  which  increased  with  the  magnitude  of  the  storm,  with- 
out being  stimulated  to  a  corresponding  boldness  ?    But  let 


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THE  DENOUEMENT. 


135 


beir  hospitality  to 
10  queen  of  Shcla 
,  the  half  was  not 

•  •  • 
soul  in  tho  Abbey 
md  elegant,  has  a 
d  to  none  I  have 
gence.  My  mom- 
idgod,  with  stream- 
ssigns  of  his  provi- 
rho  had  been  con- 
ird  to  ^ve  public 
i  night,  to  a  congre- 
cried,  "  How  long 
!mgs  xviii.  21.  It 
le  forward  as  peni- 

rs  Mr.  Caughey's 
re  temptation  from 
t  of  the  tactics  of 
I  revival  in  Dublin. 
Iness;  he  endured 
a  victftry.  To  the 
le  n:ost  interesting 
60  encoura^ngly 
md  fumiflh  a  fine 
o  can  behold  "Mr. 
iing  as  they  did  in 
"Rock  of  ages," 
>nd  laboring  with  a 
of  the  storm,  with- 
)oldnoss?    But  let 


us  listen  to  his  own  descriptions  of  his  mental  state  under 
this  trial.     He  says  of  it :  — 

God  has  in  a  great  measure  silenced  the  enemy.      Satan 
found  it  of  no  use ;  out  of  Dublin  I  would  not  go  while  God 
was  converting  souls.     He  pressed  me  very  sore,  but  this 
goaded  me  to  greater  ardor  in  the  cause  of  God.    The  more 
ho  harassed  me  with  temptations,  the  more  I  was  enabled 
to  prevail  against  his  kingdom.    His  file  was  very  rough, 
but   by  it  my  soul  became   the  brighter,  and  obtained 
a  keener   edge   and  UveUer  seasibiUties.      His  fire  was 
very  intense,  trying  and  searching  the  mmost  of  the  soul. 
What  one  said  of  the  old  blacksmith,  my  poor  soul  could  say 
of  the  adversary,   "Every  morning  he  rises  frfesh  to  his 
hammer  and  his  anvil;"  but  this  only  nerved  me  for  "my 
turn,"  and  made  me  more  resolute  in  attempting  to  over- 
throw his  strongholds.     Oh,  help  me  to  praise  the  Lord! 
for  ho  could  say  to  angels,  and  men,  and  devils,  when  pomt- 
mg  to  Dublin,  "Is  not  my  word  like  as  a  fire,  and  like  a 
hammer  that  breakoth  the  rock  in  pieces  ?"  Jer.  xxiii.  29. 
I  am  far  mistaken  if  the  devil  has  not  considered  DubUn 
the  pass  to  the  three  kingdoms;  and, perhaps,  of  as  much 
importance  to  his  kingdom,  as  Thermopylae  was  to  the  Gre- 
cians.   How  then  could  I  expect  him  to 

"  Give  quiet  pass 
Through  his  dominions  for  this  entetprize  ?" 

Glory  be  to  God !  we  have  got  possession  of  the  pass.  God 
has  fought  for  us,  and  the  slain  of  the  Lord  are  many.  The 
revival  is  going  on  with  power,  but  I  cannot  tell  you  the  ex- 
act number  converted  to  God  since  the  date  of  my  last  letter  to 
you ;  but  I  thmk  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  fifty.  I  am 
sorry  to  inform  you  that  the  work  of  entire  sanctification  ad- 
vances very  slowly.    Many  seem  to  be  earnestly  seeking  pu- 


Vmmm 


II      ^BHil        iti^r 


186 


THE   DENOUEMENT. 


rity  of  heart,  but  I  do  not  remember  that  any  person  has,  as 
yet,  distinctly  professed  its  attainment  during  the  revival.  I 
greatly  fear  there  must  be  something  grievously  deficient  in 
my  method  of  preaching  it,  else  God  would  surely  raise  up 
his  witnesses  for  this  doctrine  as  well  aa  for  that  of  justi- 
fication. The  one  is  as  much  a  New  Testament  privilege  as 
the  other. 

Yesterday,  (Sabbath,)  after  taking  breakfast  with  the 
"  Strangers'  Friend  Society,"  I  walked  over  to  the  Hend 
rick  street  chapel  to  preach.  On  my  arrival,  every  counte- 
nance wore  the  hues  of  sorrow.  One  of  their  old  leadci-s, 
Mr.  William  Haughton,  had  just  departed  for  heaven,  and 
their  hearts  were  oppressed  with  grief.  I  could  rot  well 
chide  them,  as  his  gain  was  indeed  a  loss  to  them,  which,  in 
the  first  shock  of  the  news,  they  knew  not  how  to  sustain. 
All  seemed  to  feel  that  his  place  could  never  be  supplied. 
During  tHrty  years  he  had  been  a  father  to  that  society. 
The  excitement  was  mcreased  by  the  presence  of  the  mem- 
bers of  his  six  classes,  mingling  their  tears  and  sighs  together, 
as  children  for  the  death  of  a  most  beloved  parent. 

Instead  of  taking  the  subject  I  had  intended,!  chose  Rev. 
vi.  13  — 17  ;  and  never,  neve^'  have  I  seen  such  a  wccpin" 
congregation.  Their  tears  and  sobs  would  have  softened  a 
heart  of  stone.  Suddenly,  like  a  burst  of  sunshine  on  a 
summer's  afternoon,  when  the  rains  have  ceased,  an  influ- 
ence, evidently  from  God,  came  down  upon  the  people.  Tho 
Lord  seemed  to  open  heaven  to  the  view  of  his  saints ;  at 
least,  the  veil  became  so  transparent  that  hundreds  felt, 
during  thirty  or  forty  minutes,  aa  if  they  were  surrounded 
^th  the  glories  of  the  celestial  world.  Tho  church  militant 
and  tho  church  triumphant  appeared  to  unite  in  a  manner  i"; 
is  not  possible  to  describe.  I  cannot,  I  dare  not  attempt  it, 
not  even  the  language  given  mo  in  tliat  hour.     Oli,  what 


HMi 


■«',FH«*'^" 


THB  DENOUEMENT. 


187 


my  person  has,  as 
ing  the  revival.  I 
vouslj  deficient  in 
id  surely  raise  up 
3  for  that  of  justi- 
ament  privilege  as 

reakfast  with  the 
ror  to  the  Hend 
ml,  every  counte- 
their  old  leadei-s, 
3  for  heaven,  and 
I  could  rot  well 
to  them,  which,  in 
t  how  to  sustain, 
ever  be  supplied, 
r  to  that  society, 
lence  of  the  mem- 
nd  sighs  together, 
i  parent. 
.ded,I  chose  Kev. 
I  such  a  weeping 
Id  have  softened  a 
of  sunshine  on  a 
ceased,  an  influ- 
1  the  people.  The 
of  his  saints ;  at 
at  hundreds  felt, 
wore  surrounded 
10  church  militant 
ite  in  a  manner  i  j 
re  not  attempt  it, 
hour.     Oil,  what 


views  of  God  and  heaven  filled  my  amazed  soul !  It  was 
what  one  has  elsewhere  caUed,  «  A  vision  of  glory;"  such 
as,  perhaps,  none  of  us  ever  had  before,  nor  may  ever  have 
agam,  tiU  «  mortaUty  is  swallowed  up  of  life." 

The  service  was  closed,  and  every  countenance  wore  a 
cahn,  heavenly  expression,  as  if  each  was  saying  m  his  or  her 
heart, — 

"  There  is  a  world  where  winter  comos  not, 

AVhere  a  farewell  enters  never, 
Where  no  cloud*  the  atmosphere  blot. 

And,  no  changes  our  friendship  sever. 
That  world  is  the  home  of  the  soul, 
And  Oh !  how  swiftly  it  flies  to  the  goal. 

There  sorrow's  note  is  never  heard, 

No  storm  a  rose-leaf  ever  stirred, 
But  strains  on  harps  of  heavenly  sound, 
And  songs  ecstatio  breathe  around." 

The  last  Sabbath  night  this  holy  man  spent  upon  earth 
vas  m  Abbey  street  chapel.  The  crowd  was  great,  and  he 
stood  with  his  eyes  fixed  upon  mo  during  the  whole  sermon. 
At  the  close  of  the  prayer  meetmg  he  stood  upon  a  bench 
and  gave  the  people  his  last  exhortation,  and  sung  that  verse* 
which  I  believe  was  his  favorite,—  ' 

"  When  Jesus  makes  my  heart  his  home. 

My  sin  shall  all  depart ; 
And,  lo !  he  saith,  I  quickly  come, 

To  fill  and  rule  thy  heart." 

Next  Sabbath  night,  about  that  time,  he  was  in  the  «  house 
not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens."  I  visited 
him  a  day  or  two  before  he  died.  On  approaching  his  bed, 
such  an  influence  came  upon  me  as  melted  me  into  tears  in  a 
moment.  I  felt  God  was  there,  and  that  a  warrior  of  our 
Israel  had  entered  upon  his  last  batUe  with  the  enemy.  He 
reached  out  his  hand  and  said,  «  TeU  the  congregation  th« 
following  is  my  experience :  — 
12* 


V»iaM«l 


J 


188 


THE   DEN0UE5IENT. 


"•He  breaks  the  power  of  cancollod  ain. 
He  sets  tlio  prisoner  free ; 
His  blood  can  make  the  foulest  clean, 
His  blood  availed  for  me.'  " 

One  day,  when  sittbg  together  m  his  little  parlor,  a  few 
weeks  before  ho  was  taken  with  his  last  sickness,  he  said  to 
me, "  I  have  often  stood  upon  yonder  bridge,  and  looked  at  the 
figure  of  Hope,  on  the  dome  of  the  Custom  House,  leaning  upon 
her  anchor,  with  her  face  turned  towards  the  troubled  sea,  an 
if  in  anxious  but  confident  expectation  of  the  lingering  ship; 
soon  after,  I  have  seen  the  weather-beaten  vessel  entering  the 
harbor,  badly  shattered  by  the  storm,  riggmg  disordered,  and 
sails  riven  into  shreds ;  and  it  is  thus,  I  have  thought,  that 
hope  cheers  the  soul  on  the  stormy  ocean  of  life,  and  calmly 
encourages  the  billow-tossed  Chi-istian  to  hasten  into  the 
harbor  of  glory ;  when,  lo !  the  weather-beaten  servant  of 
God,  shattered  by  time  and  storms,  dashes  into  the  port, 
where  hope  had  so  long  had  her  anchor  cast  within  the  vail." 
Ho  little  thought  he  was  just  then  sailing  so  near  the  coast  of 
heaven,  nor  that  he  should  so  suddenly  dart  into  the  harbor 
of  eternal  rest.  Mr.  Haughton  also  informed  me,  that  in 
the  little  parlor  alluded  to,  Mr.  Wesley  had  often  taken 
breakfast  with  the  Dublin  preachers ;  and  that,  when  a  boy, 
in  the  same  place,  he  had  often  swung  upon  the  knees  of  thai 
venerable  saint. 

It  wiU  bo  interesting  to  my  American  friends  to  know  that 
tWs  is  the  famous  little  room  where  the  Rev.  John  Summer- 
field  was  converted  to  God.  The  spot  where  he  obtained 
remission  of  bus,  and  the  hearth-stone  upon  which  he  stood, 
when  giving  his  first  exhortation,  were  pointed  out  to  me  by 
Mrs.  Haughton,  who  was  one  of  the  praying  company  to 
whom  the  address  was  delivered.  Ah !  I  thought,  in  this 
humble  room  arose  that  "  burning  and  shining  light,"  who 


a. 


ttle  parlor,  a  few 
ikness,  he  said  to 
and  looked  at  the 
•use,  leaning  upon 
e  troubled  sea,  ax 
le  lingering  ship ; 
essel  entering  the 
g  disordered,  and 
-ve  thought,  that 
'  life,  and  cahnly 
hasten  mto  the 
aten  servant  of 
;s  into  the  port, 
within  the  vail.** 
near  the  coast  of 
t  into  the  harboi 
Daed  me,  that  is 
liad  often  taken 
hat,  when  a  boy, 
the  knees  of  thai 

ads  to  know  that 
.  John  Summer- 
ere  he  obtained 
1  which  he  stood, 
cd  out  to  me  hy 
ing  company  tn 
thought,  in  this 
ling  light,"  who 


THE  DE>JOUEMEN'T 


189 


bceamo  tlie  wonder  of  America,  the  glory  of  Christ,  and 
one  of  the  brightest  ornaments  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  Hundreds  of  thousands  were  enraptured  by  his 
eloquence  ;  and  many,  very  many,  were  the  seals  of  his 
mhiistry. 

I  had  an  awful  time  the  other  night  in  one  of  the  chapels, 
on  tliis  text.  Rev.  xiv.  9  — 11,  and,  just  as  we  were  singing 
that  verse, — 

"  Yo  virgin  souls  ai-ise, 
•  •  • 

Oil  in  your  vessels  take," — 

all  the  lights  went  out  except  two  candles  on  the  side  of 
the  pulpit.  This  unexpected  extinguishment  of  twelve  bril- 
liant gas  lights  was  a  very  curious  coincidence,  and  the 
effect  was  really  awful,  as  the  minds  of  sinners  were  predis- 
posed to  strong  sensations  by  the  text,  sermon,  and  hymn. 
Many  trembled,  but  there  was  no  confusion.  Afterwards 
nine  or  ten  sinners  were  converted  to  God  in  the  pi-ayer 
meeting. 

A  very  remarkable  conversion,  in  answer  to  prayer,  has 
lately  taken  place,  which  I  know  will  interest  you.  A 
young  lady,  a  few  weeks  since,  arrived  in  this  city  from  Eng- 
land, on  a  visit  to  her  friends.  Shortly  after  she  was  in- 
duced to  attend  the  services ;  the  word  reached  her  heart, 
and,  after  a  severe  and  deep  repentance,  God  spoke  peace  to 
her  soul.  In  the  simplicity  of  her  heart  she  wrote  an  ac- 
count of  her  conversion  to  her  mother,  in  Liverpool,  and 
desired  liberty  to  unite  herself  with  the  Methodist  church, 
little  suspec^^^mg  the  natural  enmity  of  the  unrenewed  heart. 
Iler  mother,  a  high-spirited,  unconverted  woman,  felt  an 
instant  indignation  against  her  daughter;  wrote  to  her  im- 
mediately, ridiculed  the  revival,  forbade  her  joining  the 
Methodists,  reproached  her  for  her  weakness  of  mind,  and 


J 


140 


THE  DKNOUEMENT. 


ordered  her  homo.  The  young  lady,  alarmed  at  the  tone  oi 
the  letter,  sent  a  note  to  the  pulpit,  statmg  the  case  in  a  deli- 
cate way,  and  requesting  my  prayers,  and  those  of  the  con- 
gregation, for  the  conversion  of  her  mother.  We  fell  down 
before  God ;  faithful  and  united  prayer  was  offered,  in  which, 
I  believe,  every  pious  soul  joined. 

A  few  days  after,  a  letter  arrived  from  laverpool,  giving 
an  account  of  the  mother's  convereion.  On  the  mght  "  the 
prayer  of  faith"  was  offered  to  God,  she  was  awakened  to 
see  herself  a  sinner  on  the  brink  of  hell.  "  During  the 
night,"  said  she,  "  I  felt  as  if  I  was  in  a  furnace  of  fire." 
The  next  morning  God  converted  her  soul.  In  that  letter 
she  humbly  asked  forgiveness  of  her  dau  jhter,  and  the  same 
from  me,  although  she  had  never  seen  me ;  but  it  was  on  ac- 
count of  what  she  had  said  against  the  revival ;  and  concluded 
by  giving  her  liberty  to  join  the  Methodists  as  soon  as  she 
pleased,  as  she  intended  to  do  the  same  herself. 

On  the  17th  of  last  month,  (November,  1841,)  I  visited, 
with  a  few  friends,  the  castle  of  Dublin.  It  happened  to 
be  the  day  of  the  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Ireland's  levee.  It 
was  held  at  the  Castle.  We  had  to  make  our  way  through 
two  compames  of  sentinels ;  and,  after  much  difficulty,  were 
permitted  to  stand  in  the  hall  of  the  grand  entrance,  where 
we  had  a  fine  view  of  the  visiters.  About  thirteen  hundred 
of  the  aristocracy  of  Ireland  paid  their  respects  to  his  lord- 
ship. They  were  all  arrayed  in  rich  court  dresses,  distinc- 
tive of  their  rank  and  station ;  whether  officers  of  state, 
bishops,  archbishops,  or  inferior  clergy  ;  private  gentlemen, 
officers  of  the  army,  members  of  the  city  imiversity,  or  of 
other  institutions  of  the  country.  The  scene  was  very  ani- 
mated and  imposing.  The  band  of  the  Boyal  Hussars  was 
stationed  in  the  Upper  Castle  Yard,  and 

"  Disoonrted  sweet  mtuic." 


«<i»<riiW'»  ^J**" 


TIIE   DENOUEMENT. 


141 


at  the  tone  ot 
case  in  a  deli- 
30  of  the  con- 
We  fell  down 
ired,  in  which, 

erpool,  giving 
10  night  "  the 

awakened  to 

"During  the 
nace  of  fire." 
[n  that  letter 
,  and  the  same 
;  it  was  on  ac- 
and  concluded 
3  soon  as  she 
F. 
11,)  I  visited, 

happened  to 
i's  levee.    It 

way  through 
ifficulty,  were 
trance,  where 
rteen  hundred 
ts  to  lus  lord- 
'esses,  distinc- 
jers  of  state, 
to  gentlemen, 
versity,  or  of 
was  very  ani- 
i  Hussars  waa 


A  party  of  the  45th  regiment  lined  the  hall,  and  a  variety  of 
inferior  officers  wore  stationed  at  tho  different  entrances. 
We  waited,  with  some  interest,  to  see  tho  newly-elected  Lonl 
Mayor  of  Dublin,  the  celebrated  Daniel  O'Connell.  His 
carriage  drove  up,  tastefully  ornamented  with  green  and 
yellow.  He  ascended  the  grand  stairway,  followed  by  tho 
new  members  of  the  Corporation,  dressed  in  scarlet  cloaks. 
We  had  a  good  view  of  O'Connell,  as  he  stood  upon  one  of 
the  landings,  waiting  liis  turn  to  be  presented.  He  was 
dressed  in  his  civic  robe,  in  his  hand  the  wand  of  office,  and 
on  his  left  stood  the  bearer  of  the  mace.  Health,  happiness, 
good  humor,  and  independence,  appeared  as  if  holding  a 
levee  upon  what  a  poet  calls  "  the  temper  of  his  face."  Ho 
seemed  well  pleased  with  himself,  and  perfectly  so  with  every 
body  and  every  thing  aroimd  him. 

After  leaving  the  hall  we  got  entangled  in  a  net,  which 
cost  us  much  trouble  before  we  were  liberated.  No  sooner 
bad  we  passed  the  castle  gate  than  we  were  inclosed  in  the 
midst  of  thousands ;  many  of  them  the  lowest  of  human 
society.  Nothing  was  heard  but  the  cheering  and  shouting 
of  the  multitude,  cracking  of  whips,  prancing  of  horses, 
bawling  of  coachmen,  andjambing  and  crashing  of  carriages ; 
some  of  them  two  or  three  deep,  struggling  which  should 
first  enter  the  gate.  The  scene  was  frightful.  It  was  often 
doubtful  whether  we  should  be  crushed  by  a  coach  and 
horses,  or  trampled  down  by  the  mob.  To  retreat,  was  im- 
possible ;  to  go  fonvard,  equally  so.  At  last  a  providential 
way  opened  and  we  escaped.  When  walking  home  we  found 
tho  line  of  coaches  yet  to  enter,  a  mile  in  length. 

•  •  •  •  • 

The  Wesleyan  Methodists,  have  three  very  respectable 
chapels  in  Dublin,  and  several  smaller  ones  in  the  vicinity ; 
but,  as  there  is  nothing  particularly  interesting  in  their  archi- 


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143 


THE  DENOUKMENT^ 


tccture,  I  shall  forbear  description.  The  Methodists  in  this 
country  seem  more  anxious  to  provide  accommodations  for 
the  greatest  possible  number  of  hearers,  than  to  expend  their 
money  on  costly  decorations,  which  sometimes  leave  the  mul- 
titude unprovided  for.  The  chapel  in  Whitefriar  street 
should  not,  however,  pass  unnoticed.  It  was  erected  by 
Mr.  Wesley,  ten  or  twelve  years  after  the  first  Methodist 
society  was  formed,  and  a  venerable  building  it  is  ;  quite  in 
the  old  style,  very  plain,  and  without  any  communion  place. 
The  lobby  overhead  is  furnished  on  either  side  with  a  suite 
of  convenient  rooms,  in  one  of  which  died  that  eminent  min- 
ister of  Jesus  Christ,  Thomas  Walsh.  After  a  long  and 
severe  conflict  with  the  powers  of  darkness,  while  a  few  of 
his  brethren  were  praying  for  him  in  an  adjoining  room,  he 
burst  into  a  transport  of  joy,  excljuming,  "  He  is  come  ! 
He  is  come !  My  Beloved  is  mine,  and  I  am  his,  his  for 
over ! "  and  sweetly  fell  asleep  in  Jesus. 

Last  night  I  assisted  Mr.  Waugh  in  holding  what  I  think 
he  called  the  ninetieth  watch-night  meeting  held  in  this 
chapel.  My  sensations  were  peculiarly  humbling,  when  re- 
flecting, "  I  am  now  standing  in  a  pulpit,  once  so  e£fectually 
occupied  by  the  Wesleys,  and  the  seraphic  Fletcher."  The 
Lord  has  lately  honored  this  consecrated  place  by  the  con- 
conversion  of  many  sinners.     •        •        •        •        • 

On  the  night  of  Thursday,  the  6th  of  January,  1842,  I 
preached  my  last  sermon  in  Abbey  street  chapel.  That 
large  house  was  crowded  in  every  part.  I  had  taken  my 
farewell  at  two  of  the  other  chapels,  and  affecting  seasons 
they  were,  but  the  scene  at  Abbey  street  surpassed  any  thing 
of  the  kind  I  had  ever  beheld.  After  sermon,  about  thirteen 
hundred  persons  remained  to  bid  me  farewell,  and  they  in- 
timated most  significantly,  that  out  of  the  house  they  would 
not  go  until  they  had  shaken  hands  with  me.    I  bore  up  un- 


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TUB  DENOUEMENT. 


148 


iodists  in  this 
lodutions  for 
expend  their 
save  the  mul- 
tefriar  street 
}  erected  by 
rst  Methodist 

ia ;  quite  in 
aunion  place, 
with  a  suite 
eminent  miu- 

a  long  and 
lilo  a  few  of 
ling  room,  he 
le  is  come ! 
Q  bis,  his  for 

what  I  think 
held  in  this 
ing,  when  re- 
80  effectually 
Cher."  Tho 
I  by  the  con- 

iry,  1842,  I 
bapel.  That 
ad  taken  my 
cting  seasons 
sed  any  thing 
ibout  thirteen 
,  and  they  in- 
e  they  would 
I  bore  up  un- 


^.1 


der  the  excitement  till  I  thus  parted  with  two  hundred  of 
them,  chiefly  young  converts ;  but  their  tears  and  cries  so 
affected  me,  that  I  could  not  bear  it,  and  excused  myself 
from  proceeding,  saying,  I  would  imitate  tho  converted  Indian 
chief,  "  Shako  hands  with  them  m  my  heart,"  by  smging, 

"  Amea,  Amen,  my  sonl  replies, 
I'm  bound  to  meet  you  in  the  8kic9, 

And  claim  my  mansion  there ; 
Now,  here'8  my  heart,  and  here  my  hand, 
To  meet  you  in  that  heavenly  land, 

Where  we  shall  part  no  more." 

When  this  was  over,  matters  became  worse  and  worse ;  I  was 
hemmed  in  on  every  side.  At  last  two  or  three  brethren, 
in  mercy,  undertook  to  set  me  free,  and  they  had  a  task. 
With  much  trouble  they  opened  a  small  path,  and  through  a 
forest  of  hands,  I  gained  the  street ;  when,  lo !  it  was  lined 
to  my  home,  at  Mr.  M'Comas's.  The  door  was  surrounded 
with  people,  but  some  friends  succeeded  in  pulling  mo  into 
Jhe  house ;  but,  even  here,  there  was  littlo  relief,  as  many 
ivere  inside.  The  sorrowful  hearts  of  the  people  at  my  de- 
parture, and  a  deep  sense  of  my  own  unworthiness  and  utter 
insignificancy,  crushed  my  spirit  to  the  very  dust.  Never, 
in  all  my  travels,  have  I  met  with  a  people  equal  to  those 
of  Dublin.  Their  affection  knew  no  bounds :  I  cannot  ted 
you  all,  my  dear  sister ;  but  their  many  acts  of  kindness  and 
generous  friendship  are  too  deeply  engraven  upon  the  heart 
of  your  unworthy  brother  ever  to  be  obliterat<id. 

I  preached  one  hundred  and  twenty-nine  sermons  in  Dub- 
lin,  and  about  seven  hundred  persons  professed  to  have  re- 
ceived pardoning  mercy.  Many  of  these  were  members  of 
society  who  had  never  before  obtained  salvation.  Some  were 
backsliders.  Several  fi-om  other  churches,  but  a  large  pro- 
portion were  from  the  world. 


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144 


niE   UKNOUEMEST. 


To  givo  the  reader  a  just  conception  of  the  genuinencs.^  of 
these  numerous  conversions,  we  insert  a  letter  written  hy 
Richard  Craig,  Esq.,  of  Dublin,  in  March,  1847.  This  letter 
will  show  how  sacred  and  how  lasting  was  the  influence  cora- 
municatcd  from  God  through  Mr.  Caughoy's  labors  in  that 
city :  it  also  presents  his  labors  there  in  a  deeply  interesting 
|)oint  of  view : — 

♦'Dublin,  March  9th,  1847. 

««  Dear  Sir,— After  the  Conference  of  1841,  the  Society 
connected  with  Henderick  street  Chapel  was  looking  forward, 
with  no  small  degree  of  anjuety  to  the  expected  ministrations 
of  the  Rev.  Robinson  Scott,  who  had  been  appointed  to  this 
city,  and  whose  reported  love  for  revivals  had  made  his  ap- 
pomtraont  an  exceedingly  popular  one.  On  Sunday,  8th 
August,  the  day  on  which  Mr.  Scott  was  expected  to  preach 
for  the  first  time  in  that  chapel,  Mr.  Caughey  delivered  his 
first  message  on  tliis  side  of  the  Atlantic.  His  method  of 
reading  the  Psalms  and  I^essons  for  the  day,  and  his  passing 
remarks,  seemed  to  make  a  most  favorable  impression  on  the 
congregation  :  and  ho  preached  a  sermon,  in  his  own  pecu 
liarly  tender,  heart-searching,  and  affecting  mnnnor  which 
will  not  soon  be  forgotten.  Its  effect  was  a?U)ni8hmg.  The 
people  were  delighted  with  their  new  preacher ;  but  behold ! 
on  inquiry,  it  was  discovered  not  to  be  Mr.  Scott,  but  "  a 
stranger  ftoxa  America."  In  less  time  than  I  have  been 
writing,  it  was  decided  that  another  brother  (Fielding)  and 
myself,  should  hasten  after,  and  endeavor  to  prevail  on  him 
to  preach  again. 

"  So  much  for  Ws  first  sermon.  His  last  in  Dublin  was 
preached  in  Abby  street  Chapel  on  a  week  evening.  I  had 
frequently  gone  there  to  hear  other  great  men  preach  oc- 
oaaional  sermons  on  the  Sabbath,  but  never  before  did  I  see 


|i|£....«Mfci 


THE  DENOUEMENT. 


146 


10  genuincncs.^  of 
ettcT  written  hy 
.847.  This  letter 
le  influence  corn- 
's labors  in  that 
ceply  interesting 

ICH  9th,  1847. 
1841,  tlie  Society 
looking  forward, 
;ted  ministrations 
appointed  to  this 
lad  made  his  ap- 
On  Sunday,  8th 
[pected  to  preach 
icy  delivered  his 
His  method  of 
^,  and  his  passing 
impression  on  the 
in  his  own  pecu 
ig  m}"inor  which 
[?U)nishing.  The 
her ;  but  behold ! 
r.  Scott,  but  "  a 
lan  I  have  been 
sr  (Fielding)  and 
to  prevail  on  him 

ast  in  Dublin  was 

evening.     I  had 

men  preach  oc- 

■  before  did  I  seo 


that  large  chapel,  the  most  spacious  we  had  in  the  city,  bo 
densely  crowded :  such  a  mass  of  human  beings  in  such  a 
space  I  had  never  before  seen.  Although  many  of  his  hear- 
ers, from  the  immense  pressure,  must  have  been  exceedingly 
uncomfortable,  his  sermon  was  heard  with  the  deepest 
attention.  Sorrow  "  that  they  should  see  his  face  no  more," 
seemed  to  be  depicted  on  almost  every  countenance.  At 
the  conclusion,  he  earnestly  requested  all  present,  but  es- 
pecially the  young  converts,  to  be  attentive  to  the  means  of 
grace,  more  especially  those  for  Christian  communion ;  and 
urged  upon  them  the  necessity  of  exercising  liberality  in  the 
the  cause  of  God.  He  then  spoke  of  the  kindly  bearing  of 
the  preachers  towards  him,  and  of  their  brotherly  love ;  and 
with  a  delicacy  of  feeling  which  did  him  honor,  he  expressed 
his  fears  that,  from  the  way  he  had  been  laboring  amongst 
them,  they  might  expect  too  much  from  their  ministers.  To 
guard  against  this  ho  informed  them,  that  if  he  was  stationed 
among  them,  as  his  brethren  around  him  were,  it  would  be 
utterly  impossible  for  him  to  fulfil  the  duties  of  the  circuit, 
and  at  the  same  time  carry  on  the  meetings,  evening  after 
evening,  as  he  had  done.  He  then  bade  those  near  him  fare- 
well, and  with  great  difficulty  got  home. 

"  I  think  that  the  number  brought  to  God  during  his  min- 
istry in  Dublm  was  about  700,  nearly  half  of  whom  were 
from  the  world.  During  the  five  years  prior  to  his  visit,  the 
average  number  of  members  in  the  Dublin  Society  was  1267 ; 
and  the  average  annual  number  of  emigrations,  during  the 
same  period,  was  39.  During  the  five  years  which  have 
elapsed  since  Mr.  Caughey's  visit,  the  average  number  of 
members  has  been  1592,  and  of  emigrations,  52  annually  for 
four  years,  no  return  of  emigrations  having  been  made  for 
the  year  1846.  This  shows  a  clear  average  mcrease  of  325, 
besides  making  up  the  deficiencies  caused  by  emigratiob. 
13 


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146 


lUE  DENOUEMENT. 


;      li 


t      ■ 


Formerly  the  society  waa  only  able  to  pay  three  prcacliera  ; 
within  a  few  years  of  Mr.  Caughey's  visit,  by  much  exertion, 
the  expense  of  four  was  met ;  but  in  consequence  of  the 
blessing  of  the  Most  High  on  his  labors,  wti  are  now  able, 
from  having  such  an  increase  of  members,  to  support  nix. 
Thus,  even  in  a  financial  point  of  view,  his  sorvices  in  Dub- 
lin were  invaluable,  and,  as  it  appears,  produced  lasting  good. 
The  amount  of  money  subscribed  to  some  of  the  most  im- 
portant funds  of  the  Society  has  also  increased  considerably, 
Ra  the  followmg  statement  shows : — 

Average  of  Ave  yean 

prior  to  Mr. 

Caufrhey's  vMt 

Yearly  Collection  .  .  £156    1  11 
Education  Fund  ....     48  16    0 

Chapel  Fund 58    0    2 

Missions 585    0    0 


846  18    1 


Averftgo  of  Ave  years 

suhsequcnt  to  Mr. 

Caughey's  visit. 

£174  11  11 

55  11  0 

64  13  10 

615  15  2 

910  11  11 


So  that  to  these  four  funds  there  has  been  a  gross  average 
annual  uicrease  of  about  £QS. 

"  Here,  then,  we  have  from  the  Minutes  of  Conference,  a 
demonstrative  proof,  whether  reference  be  made  to  the  eter- 
nal or  temporal  interests  of  the  society,  that  the  work  whicli 
was  wrought  through  Mr.  Caughey's  instrumentality,  was 
indeed  of  God,  and  not  the  effect  of  mere  animal  excitement 
or  fanaticism ;  and  the  results  have  been  such  as  I  am  able 
to  prove  are  unequalled  in  the  entire  history  of  Methodism 
in  Dublin. 

"  The  secret  of  Mr.  Caughey's  success  in  Dublin  W5i3j 
that  he  always  acknowledged  the  necessity  of  the  Spirit's 
influence  to  make  his  ministrations  profitable  to  the  people. 


I 

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ran    DENOUEMENT. 


147 


tlirco  preachers ; 
by  much  exertion, 
inscqucnco  of  the 
m\  arc  now  able, 
s,  to  support  cix. 
sorviccs  in  Dub- 
uced  lasting  good. 
0  of  the  moat  im- 
)8ed  considerably, 


Lverage  of  five  yean 

subsequent  to  Mr. 

Caughey's  visit. 

£114:    11    11 

65  11    0 

64  13  10 

615  15    2 


910  11  11 

a  a  gross  average 

I  of  Conference,  a 
made  to  the  eter- 
it  the  work  whicli 
trumentality,  vm 
inimal  exciteracrit 
uch  as  I  am  able 
py  of  Methodism 

1  in  Dublin  wivSj 
ty  of  the  Spirit's 
ble  to  the  people. 


llenoo  he  Hpcnt  many  hours  of  each  day  on  his  knees,  with 
his  Bible  spread  open  before  him,  asking  wisdom  from  on 
high,  and  bespecliing  d  bl  sirin^  from  God  on  the  preaching 
of  hid  word.  Tliis,  while  :.l  Mr.  Fielding's,  (and  I  believe 
Mr.  McComas's,)  was  his  almost  constant  employment  be- 
tween breakfast  and  dinner.  Whenever  he  suffered  himself 
to  be  prevailed  upon  to  spend  an  evenuig  out,  ho  usually 
retired  an  hour  before  the  commencement  of  the  evening's 
Borvice,  in  order  again  to  cry  to  God  for  a  blessing  on  the 
J  eop'e.  I  have,  on  more  than  one  occasion,  accompainod  him 
fi  ouA  my  own  or  from  a  friend's  house  to  the  house  of  God, 
and  during;  the  whole  of  our  walk  he  scarcely  ever  exhaiiged 
a  t'/ard  with  me,  —  seemingly  lost  in  contemplation  of  the 
iiaportaiio:  of  the  work  in  which  he  was  about  to  be  engaged. 
Whita  rc'.irast  to  the  bearng  of  some  ministers  in  simi- 
lar circiunstaiioea.  ilv  showed  that  he  felt  it  to  be  his 
one  business  to  b3  loaiie  instnunental  in  the  salvation  of 
sinners. 

"  A.t  a  tea-meeting  m  Honderick  street  Chapel,  which 
tojk  place  a  few  dn  vs  before  he  lefl  Dublm,  Mx,  Waugh, 
the  Superintendent,  in  the  presence  of  the  preachers  and 
loaders,  and  on  behalf  of  the  Society,  returned  him  thanks  for 
his  labors  amongst  us ;  and  promised  that,  as  far  as  in  him  lay, 
every  facility  shov.ld  be  afforded  Mr.  Caughey  for  his  visits  to 
the  different  Societies  in  this  land.  Such  a  statement,  from 
such  an  order  lovmg  man  as  Mr.  Waugh,  speaks  trumpet- 
tongued  aa  to  the  high  opinion  he  then  entertained  of  his 
piety,  usefulness,  and  obedience.  I  have  no  reason  to  think 
that  his  opuiion  has  undergone  the  slightest  change. 
"I  Sin,  dear  Sir,  affectionately  yours, 

«a.  CaAio." 


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X^ ... 


%!..JL 


CHAPTER   XI. 


T£N  WEEKS  IN  LIMERICK. 


Among  the  mauy  evidences,  which  Mr.  Caughey's  move 
monta  furnish  to  demonstrate  the  reality  and  divinity  of  his 
mission  to  Europe,  is  the  facility  with  which  the  Providence 
of  God  opened  doors  of  access  for  him  to  the  people.  Con- 
sidering the  extraordinary  metlaod  of  holding  protracted  pub- 
lic services  which  he  was  led  to  adopt,  it  is  surprising  that 
his  way  was  opened  without  any  direct  effort  of  his  own. 
Indeed,  nothing  is  more  apparent  than  that  Mr.  Caughey 
had  no  plan,  preconceived,  and  subsequently  carried  out  by 
persevering  labor.  He  acted  m  simple,  believing  obedience 
to  the  call  of  God,  leaving  his  heavenly  dureotor  to  prepare  a 
way  for  his  willing  feet.  How  he  should  move,  after  his 
arrival  in  Liverpool,  he  did  not  know ;  where  he  should  com- 
mence his  labors,  he  could  noi  conceive.  *B\it  he  stood  ready 
for  the  conflict  at  any  point.  This  was  precisely  the  attitude 
proper  to  his  views  and  situation.  And  how  naturally  he 
i9.ovcd.  The  Conference  is  in  session  at  Manchester.  There, 
the  heart  of  the  great  Methodist  body  is  to  be  seen,  and 
there  he  modestly  appears.  An  invitation  to  Ireland  decides 
his  mind  to  visit  Dublin.  In  that  place,  an  invitation  to 
preach  brings  him  before  the  people.  God  owns  his  firet 
sermon,  by  causing  it  to  produce  a  deep  impression  on  thf 
leading  men  present,  that  the  stranger  is  sent  to  them  fro» 

t48 


TEN  WEEKS  IN  LIMERICK. 


149 


Caughey's  move 
md  divinity  of  his 
;h  the  Providence 
the  people.  Con- 
»g  protracted  pub- 
is surprising  that 
effort  of  his  own. 
that  Mr.  Caughey 
itly  carried  out  by 
elieving  obedience 
rector  to  prepare  a 
d  move,  after  his 
tre  he  should  com- 
tut  he  stood  ready 
icisely  the  attitude 

how  naturally  he 
mchester.  There, 
}  to  be  seen,  and 
to  Ireland  decides 
I,  an  invitation  to 
jod  owns  his  first 
impression  on  the 
sent  to  them  froi» 
[48 


God.  They  invite  him  to  preach  again.  He  does  so,  and 
with  mighty  effect,  for  a  great  revival  commences  at  once. 
They  insist  on  his  stay.  He  remains,  until  an  army  of  souls 
is  raised  up.  His  fame  in  Dublin  procures  him  an  invitation 
to  Limerick,  and  thus  he  proceeds  from  place  to  place  bless- 
ing and  being  blessed.  What  stronger  demonstration,  than 
these  fac' ',  can  be  demanded  in  proof  of  the  genuineness  of 
his  astonishing  impression  ?  We  know  of  none.  But  let  us 
hear  his  somewhat  versatile  statements  concerning  the  ten 
weeks  he  spent  m  Limerick.    He  says :  — 

I  had  a  very  pleasant  ride,  though  rather  cold,  from  Dub- 
lin to  Limerick.  Our  route  lay  through  several  towns  and 
villages,  among  which  were  Maryborough  and  Boscrea.  I 
had  a  glance  at  a  round  tower,  the  first  of  the  kind  I  had 
ever  seen.  I  am  agreeably  entertained  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
Keys.  He  and  his  sister  are  very  intelligent  persons,  ex- 
ceedmgly  kind,  and  deeply  devoted  to  God.  Several  pre- 
cious souls  have  been  converted  since  my  arrival. 

On  the  18th  inst.,  (January,  1842,)  I  received  the  fol- 
lowing letter  from  an  intelligent  and  excellent  brother  in 
Dublin :  — 

"My  ver-"  dear  Sir, — 

"  On  last  Sabbath  I  was  informed  of  an  awful  circum- 
stance, which  occurred  on  the  Sabbath  evening  you  preached 
in  Wl  ^tefriar  street,  from  this  text,  *  This  year  thou  shalt 
die.'  f  ou  may  probably  recollect  that,  in  your  prayer,  you 
earnestly  besought  God  to  spare  that  man  for  three  weeks, 
whom  he  had  decided  on  calling  soon  into  eternity,  in  order 
that,  before  death,  he  might  seek  the  salvation  of  his  soul. 
On  that  night,  a  man  who  lived  in  the  neighborhood  oad 
wandered  into  the  chapel,  was  deeply  affected  under  th« 
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prayer,  and  went  home  convinced  of  sin.     For  years  lie  had 
had  a  swelling  upon  the  side  of  his  neck,  which,  however, 
gave  him  Uttlc  if  any  annoyance.     On  the  next  day,  Mon 
day,  it  hecame  sore  and  inflamed,  and  continued  so  had  that 
at  last  ho  was  under  the  necessity  of  giving  up  work,  and 
taking  to  his  bed.    A  physician  was  called  in,  and,  on  ex 
amining  the  sore,  pronounced  it  a  cancer.     The  poor  man 
sank  speedily  under  it,  and  in  a  short  time  the  entire  inside 
of  his  throat  was  exposed.     He  continued,  during  all  his 
BuflFerings,  to  cry  for  mercy,  and  at  length  God  spoke  peace 
to  his  soul ;  and  exactly  in  three  weeks  from  that  Sabbath 
evening,  and  at  the  same  hour  in  which  you  had  been  en 
gaged  in  prayer,  he  exchanged   time  for  eternity,  with  a 
hope  blooming  with  immortality." 

I  had  a  delightful  walk  this  afternoon,  along  the  bank  of  a 
branch  of  the  river  Shannon,  east  of  the  city.     My  promen 
ade  was  a  wide  embankment,  a  mile  and  a  half  in  length,  with 
water  on  both  sides.    My  soul  was  engaged  in  earnest  plead 
ing  with  God  for  an  outpouring  of  lus  Holy  Spirit  on  Lime- 
rick.   I  told  the  Lord,  with  deep  emotion  and  reverential 
awe,  that  if  he  had  called  mc  from  America  to  preach  the 
gospel  in  these  kingdoms,  and  if  I  was  still  permitted  to  re- 
tain my  commission,  he  would  condescend  to  own  and  attend 
me  in  all  my  ministrations  of  his  truth.    I  then  drew  nearer 
to  God,  and  represented  the  smallness  of  my  congregations, 
and  the  comparative  want  of  success  which  had,  as  yet, 
attended  my  mimatry  in  Limerick.     0,  my  dear  sister,  God 
oame  near  to  my  soul ;  I  felt  great  sweetness,  and  a  strong 
assurance  that  God  would  bring  out  the  people,  and  awaken 
and  convert  many  sinners,  before  he  would  call  me  out  of 
this  city.    The  day  before  yesterday  we  were  visited  with  a 
most  terrific  hurricane.    Several  veisela  in  the  harbor  were 


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For  years  lie  had 
,  which,  however, 
,e  next  day,  Mon 
tiuued  so  bad  that 
ving  up  work,  and 
3d  in,  and,  on  ex 
.  The  poor  man 
)  the  entire  inside 
3d,  during  all  his 

God  spoke  peace 
rom  that  Sabbath 
TOM  had  been  en 
:  eternity,  with  a 


long  the  bank  of  a 
ity.    My  promen 
lalf  in  length,  with 
d  in  earnest  plead 
iy  Spirit  on  Lime- 
in  and  reverential 
ica  to  preach  the 
11  permitted  to  re- 
to  own  and  attend 
'.  then  drew  nearer 
my  congregations, 
hich  had,  as  yet, 
y  dear  sister,  God 
less,  and  a  strong 
eople,  and  awaken 
uld  call  me  out  of 
Neve  visited  with  a 
in  the  harbor  were 


much  uijurcd.  Tlie  roofs  of  many  houses  were  seriously 
damaged  ;  one  house  was  demolished,  and  two  or  three  lives 
lost.  The  beautiful  stone  bridge  across  the  Shannon  was 
greatly  injured,  by  vessels  Avhich  had  broken  loose  from  their 
moorings,  and  drifted  against  it.  Two  ships  were  upset 
below  the  bridge.  The  scene  was  awful.  We  are  expecting 
sad  tidmgs  from  the  coast.  Last  night  I  improved  the  dread- 
ful visitation  from  that  passage,  1  Kings  xix.  11—13. 

Limerick  has  more  than  once  been  smitten  by  the  rod  of 
God's  providence.  A  short  time  since,  I  was  taking  tea 
with  one  of  our  most  influential  friends  here.  In  the  course 
of  our  conversation,  he  related  an  a^vful  event  which  hap- 
pened a  few  years  ago,  by  a  terrible  explosion  of  gimpowder. 
A  number  of  houses  were  blown  to  atoms,  and  eighteen  or 
twenty  persons  killed.  His  house  stood  next  to  one  that  was 
thrown  down,  and  was  badly  shattered.  He  pointed  to  the 
wall  of  the  room  in  which  we  were  sitting,  and  said  the  shock 
dashed  it  in  nearly  a  foot,  but  it  sprang  back  to  its  place 
immediately.  He  and  his  family  had  a  most  miraculous 
escape.  The  house  was  filled  with  the  smoke  of  gunpowder, 
and  when  the  neighbors  gathered  around  his  door,  supposing 
they  wer«  all  killed,  they  made  their  apjjearance  as  aonu- 
ments  of  mercy,  umnjured,  but  covered  with  the  duat  of 
bricks  and  mortar  I  was  amused  with  the  account  of  the 
old  family  clock,  which  stood  at  the  head  of  the  stairs  at  the 
time  of  the  explosion ;  notwithstandLig  the  wall  was  torn  to 
pieces  close  by,  and  the  stairs  demolished,  the  old  time-piece 
kept  its  footing,  havmg  just  enough  left  to  stand  upon ;  and  a 
few  minutes  after  the  cataetrophe,  struck  the  proper  hour, 
eleven  o'clock,  and  continued  its  motions  with  the  same  regu- 
larity aa  if  nothing  had  happened.  And  thus^  I  thought, 
it  is  with  time ;  whatever  disasters  may  occoi'  beiieath  tue 
sun,  time  still  goes  on. 


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"  Who  tboll  contend  with 
Time  ?    Unvanquislicd  time  ? 
The  Conqueror  of  Conquerors,  and  Lord 
Of  desolation." 

8ince  the  sun  first 

"  Burst  into  birth, 
And  dashed  from  off  his  altitude  sublime, 
Tho  first  dread  ray  that  marlied  oommencing  time," 

it  has  never  paused.  Although  our  globe  was  once  nearly 
depopulated,  and  often  since  has  it  been  rent  and  torn  by 
earthquakes,  and  devastated  by  fire  and  storm ;  while  revo- 
lutions have  convulsed  the  nations  dwelling  upon  its  surface, 
and  myriads  of  immortal  bemgs  have  been  incarcerated  in 
hell,  or  blessed  with  the  liberty  and  joys  of  an  eternal  heaven ; 
through  all  the  vicissitudes  to  which  our  planet  has  been  sub- 
ject, Time,  dread  Time,  has  never  for  a  moment  rested  his 
pimon  to  sigh  over  the  wreck  and  the  desolations  botb  of  the 
works  and  the  hopes  of  man.  How  truly  sublime  M  the 
poet's  description:  — 


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Remorseless  time ; 
Fierce  spirit  of  the  glass  and  scythe,  what  power 
Can  stay  him  in  his  silent  course,  or  melt 
His  iron  heart  to  pity  I 
On,  still  on  he  presses,  and  for  ever. 

The  proud  bird. 
The  Condor  of  the  Andes,  that  can  soar 
Through  heaven's  unfathomable  depth,  or  bi»T« 
The  fnry  of  the  northern  hurricane, 
And  bathe  his  plumage  in  the  thunder's  home, 
Furls  his  broad  wing  at  night-fall,  and  sinlu  down 
To  rest  upon  his  mountain  crag ; 

But  Time 
Knows  not  the  weight  of  sleep,  or  weariness  j 
And  night's  deep -darkness  has  no  chains  to  bind 
His  rushing  pinion ! 
On,  still  on  he  presses,  and  for  ever. 


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I  Lord 


[  time," 

as  once  nearly 
nt  and  torn  by 
■m ;  while  revo- 
ipon  its  surface, 
incarcerated  in 
eternal  heaven ; 
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nent  rested  his 
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I  had  a  refreshing  season  the  other  night,  while  preaching 
on  that  encouraging  text,  Luke  xv.  10,  "  Likewise,  I  say 
unto  you,  there  is  joy  in  the  presence  of  the  angels  of  God, 
over  one  sinn'^r  that  repenteth."  What  a  broad  and  glori- 
ous charter  is  this  for  re-  *  ;al  efforts.  Is  it  not  sufficient  to 
kindle  an  iriextinguishable  flame  of  zeal  in  the  breast  of  a 
minister  of  Christ  ?  How  clearly  does  it  reveal  the  intimate 
connection  existing  between  the  world  of  mind  in  heaven,  and 
the  world  of  mind  upon  earth.  Does  it  not  show  that  God 
has  linked  his  great  family,  above  and  below,  by  the  strong 
and  powerful  ties  of  brotherhood  ?  •  •  • 

The  Wesleyan  Methodists  in  this  covmtry  have  a  beautifal 
hymn  in  their  collection,  which  I  do  not  recollect  to  have 
seen  in  our  American  hvmn-book.  It  waa  quite  new  to  me, 
and  has  become  a  favorite ;  perhaps  it  may  gratify  you  and 
some  other  friends. 

Who  can  describe  the  joys  that  rise, 
Through  all  the  cnnrts  of  Paradise, 
To  see  a  prodigal  return, 
To  see  an  heir  of  glory  bom  ? 

With  joy  the  Father  doth  approve 
The  fruit  of  his  eternal  love ; 
The  Son  with  joy  looks  down,  and  se«« 
The  purchase  of  his  agonies. 

The  Spirit  takes  deUght  to  view 

The  contrite  soul  he  forms  anew ; 

And  saints  and  angels  join  to  sing 

The  growing  empire  of  their  King.  '"  ■  ?.  * 

A  few  hours  ago,  a  beautiful  flag  was  seen  waving  from  a 
neighboring  flag-staff;  and,  upon  inquiry,  it  was  found  thi^ 
the  wife  and  servant  of  a  pious  captain,  whose  ftliip  is  in  port, 
had  been  converted  to  God.  The  noble-heaited  son  of  the 
ocean  was  so  fall  of  joy,  that  he  commemorated  the  gloiious 


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event  before  heaven,  and  earth,  and  hell,  bj  thua  hoisting 
his  ship's  colors,  "  That  it  might  announce  victory"  to  use 
his  own  language,  "  through  the  blood  of  the  Lamb,"  aa 
it  waved  in  the  morning  breezes. 

The  Lord  is  reviving  his  work  in  Limerick  by  converting 
souls  daily.  The  meetings  are  cnaracterized  with  much 
solemnity,  sometimes  the  stillness  is  oppressive.  I  often  feel 
afraid  it  is  the  result  of  lukewarmness  or  stupidity ;  but,  on 
going  from  seat  to  seat,  and  finding  the  people  universally  on 
their  knees,  pleading  with  God  for  mercy,  or  for  a  larger 
outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  I  return,  very  often,  ashamed 
of  my  suspicions. 

The  following  case  is  an  exception ;  but  the  results  were 
so  glorious  we  could  not  regret  the  circumstance :  A  woman, 
whose  husband  is  a  Roman  Catholic,  was  induced  to  attend 
the  services.  God  powerfully  awakened  her  to  a  sense  of 
her  wretched  condition  as  a  sinner;  she  came  again  and 
again ;  at  last  her  distress  became  so  great  that  she  began 
to  agonize  for  salvation,  when  a  strange  scene  ensued.  She 
sprang  upon  her  feet,  began  to  jump  up  and  down,  howling 
in  a  most  horrible  manner ;  her  head  at  the  same  time  flying 
from  side  to  side,  as  if  it  would  leave  her  body.  Some  fled 
in  horror ;  others  fainted ;  many  stood  in  solemn  awe  before 
God.  It  was  a  terrible  conflict.  I  had  seen  such  things 
before,  but  the  dear  people  were  appalled.  It  seemed  as  if 
two  contending  powers  were  rending  her  in  pieces.  I  be- 
lieve the  devil  was  thee  making  his  last  effort  to  keep  pos- 
session of  her  soul ;  nor  can  I  doubt  that  the  Holy  Ghost 
was  then  in  the  act  of  casting  him  out.  The  devil  '*  rent 
her  sore  "  and  departed.  Mark  ix.  26.  I  saw  her  m.  the 
congregation  a  few  nights  afterwards,  "  Clothed,  and  in  her 
right  mind,"  as  peaceful  as  a  lamb,  and  happy  in  God. 

We  are  now  distributing  the  following  circular :  —  > 


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,  by  thus  hoisting 
8  victory ^^  to  use 
f  the  Lamb,"  as 

rick  by  converting 
srized  with  much 
sivo.  I  often  feel 
stupidity ;  but,  on 
)ple  uniTersally  on 
y,  or  for  a  larger 
iry  often,  ashamed 

the  results  were 
itance :  A  woman, 

mduced  to  attend 
her  to  a  sense  of 
)  came  again  and 
it  that  she  began 
ene  ensued.  She 
tnd  down,  howling 
e  same  time  flying 
body.  Some  fled 
solemn  awe  before 

seen  such  things 
.  It  seemed  as  if 
[■  in  pieces.  I  be- 
efibrt  to  keep  pos- 
t  the  Holy  Ghost 

The  devil  "  rent 
I  saw  her  in  the 
/lothed,  and  in  her 
appy  in  God. 
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TO  THAT  MAN  WHO  FEARS  GOD  IN  THE  CITY 

OF  LIMERICK. 
Mr  DEAR  Friend  and  Brother, 

You  beUevo  the  Bible  to  be  the  word  of  God,  a  revelation 
of  the  will  of  the  Most  High  to  man.  When  you  look  into 
that  holy  book,  when  you  read  its  sacred  pages,  when  your 
heart  is  deeply  impressed  with  its  solemn  truths ;  and  when 
you  compare  the  general  conduct  and  acknowledged  experi 
ence  of  multitudes  around  you  with  that  book,  and  with  the 
gospel  you  hear  preached  from  Sabbath  to  Sabbath,  can  you 
for  a  moment  doubt  the  jeopardy  to  which  their  poor  souls 
are  every  hour  exposed  ?  With  this  book  in  your  hand,  you 
have  a  right  to  make  an  estimate,  not  only  of  your  own  pros- 
pects for  eternity,  but  also  of  the  eternal  prospects  of  those 
around  you. 

You  must  do  this  in  order  to  feel  for  your  own  soul,  and 
for  the  souls  of  your  fellow-men.  How  can  your  heart  bleed 
for  poor  impenitent  sinners  ?  How  can  you  weep  and  cry  to 
God  for  their  salvation  until  you  thus  realize  their  dreadful 
condition  ? 

This  language  is  not  new  to  you ;  your  Christian  heart  has 
often  sighed  over  t'  o  abominations  practiced  around  you ; 
you  have  often  trembled  for  the  eternal  ruin  you  have  seen 
a  little  ahead  of  the  giddy  throng ;  and  as  one  and  another 
of  them  have  been  cut  down  by  the  justice  of  God,  your  soul 
has  been  troubled  within  you,  and  your  cry  has  been,  "  0 
Lord,  revive  thy  work ;"  and  you  havo  long  expected  that 
God  would  defend  his  own  cause  in  Limerick,  and  that  ho 
would  raise  up  many  witnesses  to  that  great  truth,  "Jesus 
Christ  hath  power  upon  earth  to  for^ve  sins." 

Long  have  you  waited  for  an  outpouring  of  his  Holy 
Spirit.  I  address  you  as  a  friend  of  God  ;  as  one  who  feara 
his  holy  name.    Will  you  recognize  that  revival  of  the  work 


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TEN   WEEKS   IN   LIMEKIOK. 


of  God  for  which  you  have  so  long  sighed  and  prayed,  and 
for  whien  you  have  been  so  long  in  expectation  ?  But  will 
you  recognize  it  among  a  people  with  whom  you  are  not  in 
the  habit  of  worshipping  God ;  perhaps  a  people  against 
whom  you  have  been  prejudiced  in  past  years  ?  If  so,  we 
can  assure  you,  brother,  the  revival  of  God's  work  has  begun. 
A  few  souls  have  lately  experienced  the  great  truth  referred 
to  above,  and  are  now  rejoicing  in  the  salvation  of  God, 
experimentally  felt. 

In  the  Wesley  chapel,  Greorge  street,  a  few  of  God's 
people  have  resolved  to  follow  the  directions  given  in  Isaiah 
brii.  6,  7  :  "I  have  set  watchmen  upon  thy  walls,  0  Jerusa- 
lem, which  shall  never  hold  their  peaco  day  nor  night :  ye 
that  make  men^on  of  the  liord  keep  not  silence  ;  and  give 
him  no  rest  till  he  establish,  and  till  he  make  Jerusalem  a 
praise  in  the  earth ;"  and  among  them  are  a  few  whose  lan- 
guage is,  "  A  dispensation  of  the  gospel  is  committed  unto 
me,  and  woe  is  unto  me  if  I  preach  not  the  gospel ;"  and 
the  cry  of  their  heart  is,  as  recorded  in  the  first  veise  of  that 
same  chapter  of  Isaiah,  "  For  Zion's  sake  will  I  not  hold  my 
peace,  and  for  Jerusalem's  sake  I  will  not  rest,  until  the 
righteousness  thereof  go  forth  as  brightness,  and  the  salva- 
tion thereof  as  a  lamp  that  bumeth ;  and  they  are  resolved 
to  make  full  proof  of  their  ministry  by  wielding,  to  the  very 
utmost  of  their  strength,  those  great  and  tremendous  truths 
of  God  which  are  believed  by  Christians  of  different  denomi- 
nations. Among  those  who  are  thus  resolved  to  do  all  they 
can  to  brmg  sinners  home  to  God,  is  the  writer  of  this 
paper. 

When  in  North  America,  surrounded  by  the  happy  people 
of  his  own  charge,  as  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  that  country,  he  received  an  impression  which  he 
bcUoved  then,  and  does  yet  believe,  came  from  God,  that  it 


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waa  his  duty  to  take  a  tour  through  these  kingdoms  and  call 
sinners  <»  repentance  ;  and,  after  fulfilling  his  mission,  return 
to  America  and  re  enter  upon  his  regular  work.    After  hav- 
ing obtamed  leave  of  absence  from  the  authorities  of  that 
church,  and  being  duly  recommended  to  the  confidence  of 
hifl  brethren  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  by  his  Bishop  and 
Conference,  he  has  come  aa  far  as  Limerick,  preaching  the 
gospel  of  the  Son  of  God.    WiU  you,  my  dear  friend,  help 
us  in  this  work  by  your  praye©,  presence,  and  influence  ? 
May  be  God  will  at  this  time  give  a  general  revival  of  true 
roli^on  m  tins  city.    Perhaps  your  own  bjuI  is  far  from 
being  happy  in  the  love  of  God.    That  with  aU  your  good- 
will to  the  religion  of  the  Saviour,  you  yourself  have  never 
been  converted.    That  you  can  neither  tell  the  time,  nor 
place,  nor  circumstances  of  your  having  passed  from  death 
unto  life ;  so  that  our  Lord's  cQscourse  to  Nicodemus,  John 
iii.,  on  the  subject  of  the  «  new  birth,"  is  as  great  a  mystery 
to  your  unhappy  soul  as  it  waa  to  the  Jewish  ruler.  Although 
you  do  know  what  "  the  spirit  of  bondage  again  to  fear" 
meaneth,  yet  Romans  viii.  16,  is  yet  to  your  heart  an  unex- 
plained mvstorv. 

Look  up  to  God,  0  thou  who  art  waiting  fop  the  «  conso- 
lation of  Israel."  «  The  time  to  favor  Zion  is  come ;"  and 
the  time  to  favor  thy  poor  soul  is  come  also.  «  The  Lord, 
whom  thou  seekest,  shaU  suddenly  come  to  his  temple." 

Perhaps  there  may  stand  by  your  side,  a  poor,  wicked, 
wretohed  anner,  over  whose  uead  the  swoid  of  eternal  ju*- 
tice  has  long  been  suspended.  Let  me  speak  a  word  to  him. 
Ah!  poor  sinner!  thou  unhappy  wanderer  from  God,  and 
from  the  path  to  heaven,  what  a  mercy  thou  art  not  m  hell  I 
God  has  spared  thee  for  a  number  of  years,  though 

"  Thoo  boat  long  withitood  hia  grace, 
Long  provoked  him  to  hit  fltoe." 

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Thou  hast  long  been  a  tran8<2:rossor  against  God,  and  ao 
enemy  to  thine  own  soul.  0,  sin  no  more  !  Turn,  man, 
woman,  turn !  0,  turn  to  God  before  he  involve  thy  poor 
soul  among  the  wretched  and  hopeless  outcasts  of  a  miser- 
able eternity!  May  the  Holy  Spirit  help  you,  through 
Jesus  Christ !    Amen. 

Jaues  CAUaHBT. 
WeaUjf  Chapel,  Idmericky  > 

Jan.  lithj  1U2;. 

Hundreds  of  the  above  are  abroady  in  circulation.  I  tmai; 
the  cSects  will  be  good. 

The  next  paragraphs,  which  treat  of  the  history  of  Lime- 
rick, although  a  digression  from  the  main  topic  of  the  work, 
are  inserted  both  on  account  of  their  intrinsic  excellence,  and 
as  a  specimen  of  Mr.  Cavghey's  descriptive  powers.  They 
will  be  both  novel  and  interestiug  to  the  intelligent  reader : 

Limerick  is  seated  on  the  noble  river  Shannon,  about  sixty 
miles  from  the  ocean  and  ninety-four  from  Dublin.  The 
river  is  navig{^  for  s^ps  of  a  large  size  to  the  city  wharves. 
Situated  in  the  heart  of  a*  rich  and  fertile  country,  it  is  a 
place  of  conoiderable  commerce.  The  citj  annals  are  full  of 
stirring  ixkcident.  Some  have  supposed  its  foundations  wen 
laid  before  tl»e  birth  of  Christ.  Ptolemy  gave  it  the  name 
oi  RegiSk ;  and  in  other  ancient  documents  it  is  called  Rosse 
de  Nalleagh.  Its  earliest  name  is  allowed  to  have  been 
Lum-nea(^,  aa  Irish  word,  si^xifying  a  place  made  bare  by 
the  grazing  of  horses.  It  seems,  that  at  a  very  early  period, 
the  island  upon  which  part  of  the  city  stands,  was  the  resort 
9f  a  set  of  outlaws  and  vagabonds,  who  subsisted  by  plunder- 
ing the  neighboring  counties,  on  both  sides  of  the  river: 


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1  topic  of  the  work, 
Qsio  excellence,  and 
Lve  powers.  They 
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hannon,  about  axtj 
rom  Dublin.  The 
to  the  city  wharves, 
tile  country,  it  is  a 
y  annals  are  full  of 
a  foundations  were 
gave  it  the  name 
8  it  is  called  Rosse 
wed  to  have  been 
lace  made  bare  by 
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bsisted  by  plunder- 
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(think  of  ancient  Rome.)  Here  they  drove  their  stoloa 
horses.  Hence  the  name.  The  island  was  at  that  time 
accessible  only  by  a  ford  ;  now,  two  majestic  stone  bridges 
span  the  river,  uniting  the  county  Clare  with  the  town.  Iti 
present  modification  of  name  was  by  the  En^sh. 

The  place  was  taken  and  plundered  by  tho  Danes,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord,  812,  and  soon  afler  they  constituted  it  one 
of  their  principal  maritime  stations.  They  encompassed  it 
with  walls  and  towers ;  and  for  more  than  a  century  main* 
tained  it  as  a  place  of  great  importance  to  their  interests  in 
Ireland.  At  the  time,  denonunated  in  history,  "  The 
English  Invasion,"  A.  D.  1169,  it  fell  into  the  hands  of  the 
English  ;  and  soon  afbor  the  Danes  were  banished  from  the 
kingdom.  Previous  to  this  time,  much  blood  had  been  shed 
within  and  outside  its  walls.  There  is  an  account  of  a  suc- 
cessful siege  against  it,  by  Brien  Boroimhe,  (cau  you  get 
your  American  tongue  around  this  ?)  King  of  Munster.  It 
became  the  residence  of  the  King  of  Thomond,  or  North 
Munster,  and  arrived  at  such  dignity  as  to  be  called  in  hich 
tory,  «  The  Kingdom  of  Limerick."  I  find  that  during  a 
few  centuries  it  suffered  no  loss  than  eight  bloody  sieges. 
The  last  two  were  the  most  unportant,  as  they  resulted  in  its 
complete  subjugation  to  the  Protestant  British  throne.  These 
sieges  took  place,  A.  D.  1690—1. 

On  the  accession  of  James  U.,  the  inhabitants  prooltumed 
the  event  with  great  rejoicings.  The  same  vear.  King  "Wil- 
liam, the  antagonist  of  James,  laid  siege  to  the  city.  It  was 
then  a  walled  town,  three  milr  in  circumference,  with  a 
castle,  citadel,  various  towers,  and  seventeen  gates,  the 
whole  strongly  fortified.  William  approached  the  walls  with 
twenty  thousand  veteran  troops,  and  commenced  the  siege. 
The  place  was  well  garrisoned  with  Irish  and  Danish  troops, 
largely  supplied  with  munitions  of  war,  with  the  advants^ 


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•f  a  free  access  to  the  ocean.  Notwithstanding  these  disad- 
vantages, together  with  the  lateness  of  the  season,  this 
monarch  pressed  the  siege  with  great  vigor.  A  broach  was 
made,  and  through  ii  did  his  valiant  soldiers  several  times 
penetrate  into  the  city,  but  as  often  wore  they  driven  back. 
This  desperate  contest  lasted  four  hours,  when  WiUiam  was 
forced  to  retreat,  leaving  behind  him  sixteen  hundred  men, 
principally  slain.  A  few  months  afterwards,  King  William 
sent  General  Ginkell  against  the  place  with  a  large  army. 
The  siege  was  bloody  and  desperate.  I  stood  near  the  place 
yesterday,  at  the  Thoaiond  Bridge,  where  mx  hundred  Irish 
troops  were  cut  to  pieces,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  drowned 
It  seems  the  Irish  had  made  a  sally,  but  meeting  with  a  hot 
reception,  and  being  severely  pressed  by  the  English,  they 
retreated  in  great  disorder.  The  officer  in  charge  of  the 
gate,  fearing  the  English  might  gain  an  entrance  with  the 
fu^tives,  ordered  the  bridge  to  be  drawn  and  the  gate  shut ; 
thus  the  poor  fellows  were  left  to  be  butchered  like  so  many 
cattle.  On  the  first  of  October  the  city  surrendered,  under 
certain  articles  of  capitulation.  The  treaty  was  signed  on  a 
large  stone,  on  the  Glare  ude  of  the  Shannon,  close  to  the 
bridge.  This  stone  is  an  object  of  interest  to  the  inhabitants, 
as  well  as  a  curiosity  to  visiters.  About  this  time  the  city 
was  declared  to  be  no  longer  a  fortress,  and  the  dismantling 
of  its  walls  immediately  took  place. 

The  other  day  I  walked  upon  fi%  yards  of  the  old  wall. 
It  is  about  twenty-five  feet  high.  The  effects  of  the  cannon- 
ading are  still  visible  in  the  shattered  and  broken  stones  of 
the  front.  A  gentleman  who  accompanied  me,  pointed  oub 
the  place  where  King  William  made  the  first  breach,  and 
the  spot  where  the  Irish  and  Danes  played  off  a  small  battery 
which  did  terrible  execution  among  those  who  were  pressin<' 
in.    Here  was  the  place,  too,  where  the  good  ladies  k  Idme- 


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:teen  hundred  men, 
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with  a  large  army, 
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I  and  fifty  drowned 
meeting  with  a  hot 
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in  charge  of  the 
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rick  carno  up  to  the  help  of  thev  valiant  husbandi«.    Strong 
affection  for  those  they  loved  drew  them  to  the  scene  of  con. 
flict,  weaponless  of  coura,, ;  but  seeing  the  dreadful  crisis 
they  resolved  to  go  into  action ;  so,  pulling  off  their  stock- 
ings and  putting  a  few  stones  therein,  they  rushed  into  the 
ranks  and  apaisted  in  turning  the  tide  of  battle.     The  heavy- 
footed  stockmgs  were  seen  swbgmg  in  aU  directions;  with 
th«se  they  baT-omtred  the  heads  of  the  wounded,  ov  those 
who  had  faUea  in  the  pell-meU  of  retreat.    Oh,  the  horroi-s 
of  war  ;  into  whftt  demons  does  it  transfimn  our  rac- ! 
^   Paidoii  the  (ligredsion.    But  Limerick,  waU-less  as  it  is, 
13  vnce  more  besieged  by  a  smaU  army  undsr  the  command 
of  Jesus  Christ.      Several  skirtnishes  have  already  taken 
pliwse,  and  more  llum  thirty  sinners  have  been  wounded  by 
iiie  sword  of  the  Spirit;  btit  the  Captain  of  our  salvation 
has  healed  them  again,  as  ho  did  poor  Malchus,  who  h&d 
been  deprived  of  his  car  by  the  keon  sword  of  Petfir.     We 
are  expecting  a  general  cxigagement  one  of  these  days ;  but 
It  is  not  necessary  co  cowtraat  the  consequences  .  I  mean 
Tjith  those  bljcdy  coi.flicts  I  have  been  just  deecribmg. 
Should  we  have  the  vioiory,  it  will  be  a  bloodless  one ;  and 
the  effects  so  much  more  glorious  that  they  cannot  be  brought 
into  comparison ;  bat  if  wo  are  unsuccessful,  the  rebults  tc 
many  hundreds  of  the  enemies  of  the  Lord  may  be  as  awfuUy 
terrific  as  the  horrors  of  hell  surpass  those  of  the  bloodiest 
battle  that  has  ever  stained  our  globe. 

The  ancient  0*t'aedral  of  St.  Mary  is  a  Tenerable  and 
uobie  structure,  hi  plain  Gothic.  The  walls  are  surmounted 
by  a  liue  of  graduated  batUements,  and  the  whole  finished 
off  with  a  square  tower  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  Mgh, 
Bmgukrly  ossteUated  at  tho  top,  besides  four  turrets,  twenty 
feet  high,  which  adorn  the  angles.  The  mterior  is  oma-* 
rmnted  with  a  variety  of  momimentB  and  inscriptions.    The 


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sculpture,  however,  posaesses  but  little  interest  beyond  being 
very  ancient.  The  figures,  with  one  or  two  exceptions,  are 
very  coarse.  I  was  amused  and  surprised  to  find  the  follow- 
ing mscription  upon  a  plain  slab  m  this  church ;  especially 
as  it  dates  the  latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century :  — 

MEMENTO  MOBY 

HERE  LIETH  LITTKL 

SAMVELL  BAKINOTON  THAT 

GREAT  VNDERTAKEB  OF 
FAMOVS  CITTI8  CLOCK  AND 

CHIME  MAKER  HE  MADE 
HIS    OWN   TIME    GOE   EAR- 
LY AND  LATTER  BVT 
NOW  HE  IS  RETVBNED  TO 
GOD  HIS  CREATOR 
THE  19  NOVEMBER  THEN 
HE  SEEST  AND  FOR  HIS 
MEMORY  THIS  HERE  IS 
PLEAST  BY  HIS  SON  BEN 
1«98. 


Was  not  Ben  a  genius  ? 

Will  your  taate  be  shocked,  if  I  tell  you,  that  encompassed 
fis  I  was  with  many  remnants  of  antiquity,  my  eyes  rested  on 
no  spot  with  such  interest  as  upon  the  ruins  of  an  old  Meth- 
odist chapel  ?  A  few  moments  after  leaving  the  cathedral, 
wo  found  ourselves  standing  before  its  venerable  walls.  It  is 
yearly  unroofed.  The  front  is  supported  by  four  pillars  of 
the  Tuscan  order,  restmg  upon  neat  pedestds,  and  finished 
Kith  plam  capitals.  The  recess  is  well  flagged,  protected  by 
a  substantial  balustrade.  To  the  left  are  the  stidni  to  the 
lobby,  entirely  alove  the  chapel.  These  we  ascended,  but 
darst  not  proceed,  as  the  floors  were  bad.  We  could  see  the 
long  range  of  class-rooms,  and  chambers  for  the  preachers, 
according  to  the  custom  of  early  Methodism.  The  interior 
of  the  chapel  is  a  mournful  desolation ;  the  pulpit  is  gone, 


rest  beyond  bemg 
NO  exceptions,  are 
to  find  the  follow- 
hurch;  especially 
bh  century :  — 


that  encompassed 
ny  eyes  rested  on 
i  of  an  old  Meth- 
ng  the  cathedral, 
rable  walls.  It  is 
by  four  pillars  of 
tds,  and  finished 
;ed,  protected  by 
the  stairs  to  the 
ne  ascended,  but 
We  could  see  the 
>r  the  preachers, 
n.  The  interior 
le  pulpit  is  gone, 


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and  the  whole  soatless  and  floorless.  The  frame-work  of  the 
galleries  and  the  sturs  remain.  Ah !  I  thought,  this  place 
has  oilen  been  vocal  with  the  praises  of  God.  Multitudes, 
now  in  heaven,  were  "  bom  of  the  Spirit "  within  these  walls. 
Here  Mr.  Wesley  often  preached  the  gospel  "  with  the  Holy 
Ghost  sent  down  from  heaven."  In  this  place  he  often  met 
the  society,  and  instructed  them  in  the  deep  things  of  God ; 
but  they  are  all  long  since  gone  to  the  eternal  world. 

The  following  remarks  on  this  chapel  are  given  by  Mr. 
Wesley,  in  his  journal,  1765 :  "  Friday,  8th  June,  I  rode  to 
Limerick,  and  found  the  preaching-house  just  finished.  I 
liked  it  the  best  of  any  in  the  kingdom ;  bemg  neat,  yea, 
elegant,  yet  not  gaudy." 

The  Wesleyan  Methodists  have,  at  present,  a  large  and 
handsome  chapel  in  another  part  of  the  city.  Limerick  has 
the  usual  number  of  benevolent  institutions  which  honor 
other  cities ;  the  same  variety  also  of  Christian  denomina- 
tions and  places  of  worship  that  we  have  generally  in  America. 
You  are  aware,  that  all  who  do  not  belong  to  the  Established 
Church  in  this  country,  are  called  Dissenters  or  Roman  Cath- 
olics. The  dissenting  churches  in  Limerick  are  very  respec- 
table  and  flourishing,  although  they  are  living  amidst  the 
frowns  of  Papists  on  the  one  hand,  and,  very  generally,  the 
contempt  of  the  Establishment  on  the  other. 

That  popery  should  frown  upon  protestant  churches,  and 
persecute  them,  is  not  to  be  wondei'ed  at ;  but  that  the  min- 
isters of  one  protestant  church  should  endeavor  to  unchurch 
ail  others,  and  anathematize  their  ministers,  as  intruders  into 
the  pastoral  ofSce,  is  mournful  indeed.  It  if  not  unlikely 
that  a  church  establishment  is  best  for  these  kingdoms; 
inasmuch  as  it  has  been,  for  centuries,  interwoven  with  their 
civil  and  religious  constitution.  The  fact,  however,  is  noto- 
rious, that  in  whatsoever  nation  under  heaven,  one  branch  oi 


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the  cliurch  is  elevated  by  law  above  the  others,  in  honors, 
privileges,  and  emoluments,  that  that  section  becomes,  and 
continues  overbearing,  dogmatical,  and  exclusive ;  and  thus 
it  has  been  from  time  immemorial.  You  will  ask,  "  But 
have  thej  meddled  with  the  validity  of  your  ministry  ?" 
Certainly;  am  I  not  found  among  the  Dissenters?  It  is 
therefore  thought  impossible  your  friend  can  be  in  the  suc- 
cession. I  usually  answer  the  attack  with  a  smile,  or  a 
pointed  reply,  thus :  I  have  no  sympathy  whatever  with  your 
exclusive  claims.  Your  high  church  notions  may  do  well 
enough  for  this  country,  but  as  wo  have  no  state  church  in 
America,  you  cannot  imagine  1  should  have  any  respect  for 
sueh  claims.  Christian  churches  are  there  on  an  equal  foot- 
ing in  all  respects  ;  and  the  consequence  is,  they  escape  that 
humiliating  persecution  to  which  your  sister  churches  are 
Bubjected,  in  most  pla<;e3  in  Ireland.  As  to  the  constitution 
and  government  of  the  church  of  which  I  am  a  member,  it  is 
an  Episcopacy.  We  have  our  bishops,  elders,  and  deacons ; 
and  allow  me  to  say,  however  you  may  be  dissatisBed  with 
us,  we  are  perfectly  contented,  as  a  church,  with  our  ec- 
clesiastical position  in  America.  But  I  would  have  you  un- 
derstand, we  lay  no  claim  to  any  such  superiority  over  other 
churches,  as  would  go  to  invalidate  the  ordination  of  their 
pastors  "  I  am  become  a  fool  in  glorying ;  ye  have  com- 
pelled me."  2  Cor.  xii.  11.  "  Yet  as  a  fool  receive  me, 
that  I  may  boast  myself  a  little."  2  Cor.  xi.  IG.  Although 
the  hands  of  two  bishops  have  been  upon  my  head ;  first,  in 
my  ordination  as  deacon ;  and,  lastly,  as  an  elder  in  the 
church  of  God ;  yet,  neither  do  I  on  this  account  disesteem 
or  under  iralue  the  ordination  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  min- 
isters, nor  that  of  other  Dissenting  clergymen  of  these  king- 
donu ;  nor  will  I  allow  you  to  go  on  with  your  unwarrantable 
denunciations  against  my  ministry  and  ordination,  without 


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liers,  in  honors, 
I  becomes,  and 
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centers  ?    It  is 

be  in  the  sue- 

a  smile,  or  a 
tever  with  your 
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state  church  in 
any  respect  for 
1  an  equal  foot- 
hey  escape  that 
r  churches  are 
the  constitution 
a  member,  it  is 
,  and  deacons ; 
lissatisfied  with 
I,  with  our  ec- 
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ination  of  their 
;  ye  have  com- 
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administering  the  rebuke  your  pride  and  arrogance  have  so 
justly  merited. 

As  to  the  aspect  of  Limerick  generally,  you  would  not  be 
pleased  with  it,  accustomed  sa  you  have  been  to  the  clean 
streets,  tastefully  painted  houses,  and  lively,  brilliant  appear- 
ance of  American  cities  and  villages.  The  streets  are  nar- 
row and  dirty ;  buildings,  principally  of  brick,  old,  and  very 
dark  and  sooty,  owing  probably  to  the  moisture  of  the  cli- 
mate, and  the  abundance  of  coal  consumed.  These  remarks 
will  only  apply  to  those  parts  of  the  city  named  English  and 
Irish  Towns.  The  new  city  is  quite  of  a  different  character. 
The  streets  are  wide  and  clean ;  the  houses  handsome  ;  and, 
taken  altogether,  the  city  of  New  York  would  be  honored  by 
a  transfer  of  this  part  of  the  city  of  Limerick. 

I  have  not  been  here  a  sufficient  length  of  time  to  form 
an  opiiuon  respecting  the  inhabitants.  My  acquaintance  is, 
Bs  yet,  limited  to  the  Methodists ;  and  a  most  loving,  hospit- 
able people  they  are;  intelligent,  influential,  united,  and 
deeply  devoted  to  God.  I  think  if  Mr.  Weslej  were  alive, 
he  would  have  the  same  opinioi*  of  them  now,  that  he  had 
when  he  penned  the  character  of  the  Limerick  society  in 
1771 :  "  Feb.  25th,  I  spoke  severally  to  the  members  of  tho 
society  in  Limerick.  I  have  found  no  society  in  Ireland, 
number  for  number,  so  rooted  and  grounded  in  love."  They 
have  two  excellent  men  of  God  stationed  among  them  this 
year,  the  Rev.  John  F.  Mathews,  and  the  Rev.  William  F. 
Applebe,  with  whom  I  feel  my  soul  strongly  umted  in  love- 
They  are  every  thing  I  could  desire,  and  enter  most  heartily 
into  the  revival. 

As  to  the  congregation,  although  we  have  had  divine  ser- 
vice every  night  since  my  arrival,  there  is,  as  yet,  no  falling 
off.  This  looks  like  an  improvement  smce  Mr.  Wesley's  day. 
It  seems  they  had  given  him  trouble  on  tlus  head,  and  drov^i 


i, 


n 


n 


I  b 


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TEN  WBEES  IN  LIMERIOE 


him  to  certain  measures  which  proved  successful.  The  fol- 
lowing entry  in  his  journal  for  the  year  1771,  is  rather 
amusing :  <'  Tuesday,  14th,  I  rode  on  to  limerick,  and  told 
them  plainly, '  If,  as  is  your  manner,  you  attend  three  days, 
And  then  fall  off,  I  can  bestow  my  time  better  elsewhere. 
But  if  you  continue  to  come,  I  will  stay  with  you  longer.' 
They  took  me  at  my  word,  and  continued  to  increase,  both 
morning  and  evemng,  as  long  as  I  stayed  in  the  city." 

Mr.  Mathews  and  I  have  been  engaged  lately  m  visiting 
from  house  to  house,  praying  with  the  families  and  exhortmg 
sinners  to  turn  to  God.  I  preach  every  night  m  the  week, 
except  Monday  and  Saturday.  There  is  a  gracious  move 
among  the  people.  Sixty  persons  came  foward,  night  before 
last,  to  testify,  that,  durmg  the  last  few  veoks,  they  had  found 
^'redemption  through  His  blood,  even  tha  forgiveness  of  sins ;" 
and  afterwards  eighty  awakened  sinners  came  forward  for  the 
prayers  of  God's  people  ;  five  or  six  of  whom  were  convert- 
ed before  they  departed,      Glory  be  to  God  ui  the  highest ! 

The  followmg  passages  are  taken  from  a  letter  written 
from  Cork,  and  contain  several  matters  of  interest  concern 
ing  the  results  of  his  labors  in  Limerick : — 

Yesterday  morning,  March  18, 1842, 1  left  Limerick  by 
stage  coach,  and  arrived  in  this  city  (Cork)  a  little  past  five, 
P.  M.  Thirty  miles  of  our  route  lay  through  an  interesting 
country,  but  the  remainder  of  the  way  was  exceedmgly  dull, 
and  the  weather  bleak. 

We  had  a  very  gracious  work  of  God  in  Limerick.  One 
hundred  and  thirty  persons  professed  the  salvation  cf  ihu 
gospel,  and  about  ninety  united  with  the  Methodist  cl  rsrch. 
I  was  informed  that  other  churches  had  received  somo 
benefit  from  the  revival ;  to  what  extent  I  am  not  able  to 


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essfiil.  The  fol- 
1771,  is  rather 
imerick,  and  told 
btend  three  days, 
letter  elsewhere, 
rith  you  longer.' 
to  increase,  both 
I  the  city." 
lately  in  visiting 
ies  and  exhorting 
ight  in  the  week, 
a  gracious  move 
ard,  night  before 
8,  they  had  found 
^venessofsins;" 
le  forward  for  the 
>m  were  convert- 
d  m  the  highest ! 

a  letter  written 
interest  concern 


left  Limerick  by 
a  little  past  five, 
gh  an  interestmg 
exceedingly  dull. 

Limerick.     One 

salvation  of  tha 

[ethodist  clnrch. 

received  somo 

I  am  not  able  to 


A  few  days  before  I  departed,  I  was  mvited  to  take  break- 
fast with  a  number  of  the  friends  in  the  vestry.  There  were 
about  forty  present.  When  the  cloth  was  removed,  the  Rev. 
J.  F,  Mathews,  Superintendent  of  the  Circuit,  rose,  and 
after  a  short  speech,  a  copy  of  which  was  ^ven  to  me  after- 
wards, he  presented  me  with  a  valuable  patent  lever  watch, 
together  with  an  address,  signed  by  the  chairman  and  secre- 
tary of  the  meeting.  I  rose,  and  returned  Mr.  M.  and  the 
friends  my  hearty  thanks,  stating,  that  I  should  be  most 
happy  to  receive  the  beautiful  timepiece,  did  I  not  possess  a 
good  one  already ;  that  one  watch  was  quite  enough  for  a 
Methodist  preacher ;  that  if  they  would  consent  to  receive 
mine,  and  do  what  they  pleased  with  it,  I  would  gratefully 
accept  their  elegant  present ;  but  only  on  these  terms.  It 
was  then  resolved  that  the  Rev.  JohnF.  Mathews  should  be 
presented  with  my  watch.  I  accompanied  it  with  a  short 
address  ;  but  I  felt  so  unworthy,  and  was  so  overcome  with 
the  unexpect^ed  Idndness  shown  me,  that  I  could  scarcely 
proceed.  Mr.  M.  received  it  with  such  expressions  of 
brotherly  love,  as  have  left  an  indelible  impression  upon  my 
heart.  The  following  are  the  copies  of  the  addresses  on  the 
occasion :  — 

"Reverend  and  very  dear  Sir, 

"  At  the  request  of  a  few  of  our  brethren  of  the  Wes 
leyan  society,  some  of  whom,  through  you,  have  been  led  to 
the  Saviour,  and  united  to  his  people,  we  address  yoi  a  few 
lines,  now  on  the  eve  of  your  departure  from  us,  to  another 
field  of  labor  and  usefulness. 

"  "We  feel  inadequate  to  g^ve  expression  to  our  foelings  of 
respect  and  regard  to  you,  for  your  great  and  unwearied 
exertions  during  your  visit  to  tlds  city.  The  results  have 
greatly  exceeded  our  highest  anticipations.    When  we  co» 


II 


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11^ 


168 


TEN   WEEKS   IN   LIMERICK. 


sider  the  large  attendance  of  deeply  attentive  congregations, 
that  from  night  to  night  sat  under  your  ministry,  the  numbers 
who  have  been  awakened  and  brought  to  believe  in  the  Lord 
Jesus,  and  the  encouraging  circumstances  in  which  the  soci- 
ety has  been  placed  by  this  revival  of  the  work  of  God,  we 
are  led,  with  adoring  gratitude  to  Him^  the  source  of  every 
blessing,  to  acknowledge  what,  through  your  instrumentality, 
has  been  effected. 

"  We  trust,  dear  Sir,  that  your  valuable  life  will  long  be 
preserved  to  the  world  and  the  church ;  that  you  may  hve 
to  publish  the  gospel  of  the  grace  of  God,  which,  we  earn- 
estly pray,  may  to  many  thousands  be  his  power  to  their 
salvation,  who  shall  be  your  'joy  and  crown  of  rejoicbg  in 
the  day  of  the  Lord  Jesus.'  We  do  cherish  the  delightful 
expectation  of  meeting  you  in  that  day,  in  our  Father's 
kingdom,  where  there  is  '  fulness  of  joy,'  and  '  pleasures  for 
evermore.'  Now  that  you  are  about  to  leave  us,  we  cannot 
let  you  depart  without  a  small  testimony  of  our  firatemal  re- 
gard for  you,  and  trust  you  will  be  pleased  to  accept  the 
accompanying  token  as  an  expression  of  gratitude  to  God, 
for  the  blessmgshe  has  been  pleased  to  confer  on  us  througfai 
your  instrumentality. 

'<  We  remain,  dear  Sir,  yours  most  truly  and  affectionate- 
ly; by  order, 

"RoBT.  Ekats. 

"MiOHL.   SWITZBR." 

"il/arcAlSfA,  1842." 

The  secretary  put  into  my  hands  the  following,  as  the  sum 
mary  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mathew'a  address  i  — 

"  He  congratulated  the  meeting  upon  the  very  cheering 
circumstances  in  which  the  society  was  placed.  A  few 
months  ago  it  was  greatly  depressed,  but  now  the  scene  was 
flonsideribly  altered.     Many,  during  the  revival,  had  been 


ntive  congregations, 
inistry,  the  numbers 
believe  in  the  Lord 
3  in  which  the  soci- 
16  work  of  God,  we 
the  source  of  every 
our  instrumentality, 

»Ie  life  wiU  long  be 
that  you  may  live 
>d,  which,  we  eam- 
his  power  to  their 
fown  of  rejoicbg  in 
lerish  the  delightful 
y,  in  our  Father's 
'  and  <  pleasures  for 
leave  us,  we  cannot 
of  aax  firatemal  re- 
leased to  accept  the 
r  gratitude  to  God, 
onfer  on  us  througli 

ly  and  affectionate- 
3T.  Kbats. 

IHL.   SWITZBR." 


lowing,  as  the  sum 

the  very  cheering 
}  placed.     A  few 

now  the  scene  was 
i  revival,  had  been 


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169 


converted  to  God,  had  given  themselves  to  him  and  to  hia 
people  according  to  hia  will. 

"  He  spoke  of  Methodism  in  terms  of  hig^  adnuration 
with  regard  to  its  doctrines,  privileges,  and  (helpline,  and 
of  its  adaptation  to  the  great  designs  of  God  in  the  salvation 
of  the  world.  The  Lord  bad  signally  owned  the  labors  of 
his  servant.  His  word  had  been  *  in  demonstration  of  the 
Spirit  and  of  power.'  The  gospel,  by  his  ministry,  had  in- 
deed come  '  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  in  much  assurance.'  It 
was  their  earnest  prayer  that  the  Lord  would  still  be  with 
him ;  and,  in  every  place,  crown  his  labors  with  abundant 
success. 

"  Li  conclusion,  he  observed,  this  token  of  affection  and 
gratitude  is  a  watch.  The  friends  presenting  it  are  fully 
aware,  dear  Sir,  that  you  deeply  feel  the  value  of  time;  else 
you  would  not  have  preached  with  that  yeanung  compassion 
for  the  souls  of  sinners,  which  has  characterized  your  labors 
since  you  came  to  this  city ;  that  its  unspeakable  importance, 
as  the  period  allotted  to  prepare  for  eternity,  is  a  subject 
which  iUIs  your    ind  in  all  your  nunistrations. 

"  The  vih'ationi  of  this  watch,  wherever  the  providence 
of  God  may  lead  you,  m  Ireland,  England,  the  continent  of 
Europe,  the  mighty  deep,  or  far  away  beyond  the  great 
Atlantic,  will  be  a  fit  memento  of  the  constant  affectio  ate 
vibrations  of  the  hearts  of  your  Limerick  friends ;  and  we  are 
led,  in  joyful  anticipation,  to  look  beyond  the  periodical  revo- 
lutions of  hours  and  days,  mouths  and  years,  terms  belong- 
ing to  limited  duration ;  to  that  glorious  period  when  there 
shall  be  dur  tion  without  measure,  without  limit,  and  without 
end  ;  and  we  expect,  dear  Sir,  to  meet  you  in  that  kingdom, 
where  our  friendship  shall  be  perpetuated  forever." 

I  received  many  other  tokens  of  the  strong  affection  of 
this  lovely  people,  uid  left  their  city  with  feelings  of  strong 

16 


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170 


TEN  WEEKS  IN  LIMERICK. 


attachment  and  gratitude  not  easily  expressed.  An  ac« 
quaintance  has  been  formed  there  with  some  of  the  excellent 
of  the  earth  which,  I  believe,  shall  be  renewed  in  heaven.  I 
do  praise  God  also,  that  I  ever  became  acquainted  with  the 
Kev.  J.  F.  Mathews,  and  hia  colleague,  Mr.  Applebc,  and 
with  their  amiable  wives  and  families. 


pcsscd.  An  ac« 
e  of  the  excellent 
red  in  heaven.  I 
(uainted  with  the 
Ir.  Applcbc,  and 


CHAPTER  XII. 


VISIT  TO  CORK. 


Having  fimshed  his  work  in  Limerick,  Mr.  Caughey  found 
«  an  open  door  "  in  the  city  of  Cork.  With  the  incidents  of 
his  visit  there,  the  reader  will  be  greatly  pleased.  Perhaps 
he  will  wish  that  Mr.  Caughey  had  given  a  more  regular 
and  detaUed  account  of  his  revival  movements.  But  it  must 
be  recollected  that,m  a  former  chapter,  he  has  entered  fully 
into  his  mode  of  assaulting  the  kingdom  of  Satan.  To  de- 
scribe minutely  his  labors  in  each  place,  would  be  only  a 
repetition  of  that  chapter,  since  his  mode  of  procedure  was 
substantially  the  same  every  where.  He  has,  therefore,  very 
wisely,  as  we  tlunk,  left  the  reader  to  apply  the  descriptions 
of  that  thrilling  chapter*  to  limerick,  Cork,  &c.,  and  has 
given  us  the  incidents  only  which  were  extraordinary  and 

peculiar. 

The  succeeding  chapter  derives  its  chief  interest  and  value 
from  its  description  of  the  veteran  soldier,  a  truly  unique 
character.  There  is  a  singular  beauty  in  the  picture  it  pre- 
sents of  the  wearied  warrior,  laying  down  his  sword  before 
the  door  of  the  Wesleyan  Chapel,  and  offering  his  services  to 
the  Captwnof  his  salvation:  and  in  the  subsequent  history 
of  this  bold  old  soldier  we  have  the  character  and  duty  of 
a  MODEL  OLASS-LBADBR  distinctly  drawn.  "We  hope  this 
character  will  be  profoundly  studied  by  every  class-leader  iu 


N- 


;  ii 


t  i 


•  Vide  Chapter  IV. 


171 


miteifssfSK 


.«i^' 


172 


VISIT  TO  CORK. 


the  connection.  But  wo  must  let  Mr.  Caughey  epeak  for 
oimaclf.  In  his  usual  and  somewhat  abrupt  manner  hu  thus 
begins  his  account  of  his  visit  to  Cork : — 


To-morrow  morning,  March  20, 1842,  please  God,  I  open 
my  commission  in  Cork.  This  morning  I  walked  out  of  the 
city,  and  ascended  one  of  the  neighboring  hills,  and  had  a 
fine  \dew  of  tho  place.  It  blew  a  gale  at  the  time,  with  oc- 
casional bursts  of  sunshine  through  careei-^iig  ciouds.  I 
spent  some  time  here  in  fervent  prayer  for  the  town,  which 
lay  beneath  ;  near  access  to  God  was  vouchsafed  me ;  and, 
after  pleadmg  deeply  in  the  Spirit  for  the  inhabitants,  I 
arose  from  my  knees  with  the  fullest  conviction  that  God  was 
just  as  willing  to  visit  Cork  with  an  outpouring  of  the  Spirit, 
as  he  was  to  send  the  purifying  breeze,  and  the  warming  and 
cheering  beams  of  the  sun,  through  the  streets  and  lanes 
of  the  city. 

On  the  Sabbath  morning  following  I  addressed  a  largo 
congregation  from  Isaiah  xl.  31 ;  many  received  the  word  iu 
faith  and  gladness,  but  some  were  prejudiced,  and  resisted. 
I  had  many  conflicting  emotions  during  tho  sermon ;  such  m 
light,  gloom,  joy,  sadness,  freedom,  restraint,  softness,  hard- 
ness. Do  you  understand  such  a  paradoxical  experience  'i 
I  felt  deeply  humbled,  and  resolved  to  cleave  to  God.  At 
night  I  opened  my  commission  more  fully,  from  Jeremiah 
xxiii.  19,  20.  God  enabled  mo  to  bear  down  on  smners  with 
the  following  proposition  i  There  are  a  few  great  principles 
which  every  sinner  should  consider  perfectly  before  he  enters 
the  eternal  world. 

It  was  a  very  solemn  time,  especially  at  the  close  of  the 
sermon.  I  insisted  that  a  period  must  arrive  in  the  history 
of  all  men  who  die  in  sin,  when  God  Almighty  will  compel 
them,  by  all  the  arguments  of  hell-fire,  to  consider  perfectly 


lughey  epeak  for 
c  manner  hu  thus 


jaae  God,  I  open 
ralkcd  out  of  the 
hilla,  and  had  a 
be  time,  with  oc- 
mg  ciouds.  I 
the  town,  which 
hsafcd  mo ;  and, 
le  inhabitants,  I 
ion  that  God  was 
ing  of  the  Spirit, 
the  wanning  and 
treets  and  lanes 

ddressed  a  largo 
ived  the  word  iu 
ed,  and  resisted, 
sermon ;  such  as 
b,  soilness,  hard- 
ical  experience? 
ve  to  God.  At 
,  from  Jeremiah 
n  on  sinners  with 
■  great  principles 
before  he  enters 

the  close  of  the 
ve  in  the  history 
§hty  will  compel 
onsider  perfectly 


~.»ii 


VISIT  10   COKK. 


173 


those  subjects  which  during  life  they  had  neglected ;  that 
perfect  consideration  now  would  be  attended  with  the  moat 
delightful  consequences,  but  that  the  same  exercise  of  mind 
m  hell  will  only  sink  them  deeper  in  its  tormenting  flames. 
I  then  threw  down  the  gauntlet  of  deflance  against  the  devil 
and  all  his  works,  and  rallied  my  ciEcers  around  the  baimers 
of  the  cross.  There  was  a  shaking,  but  the  devil  rmsed  his 
signal  of  determined  opposition.  The  night  waa  spent  in 
hard  fighting,  without  any  great  advantage  on  either  side. 
Hostilities  ceased  about  ten  o'clock  at  mght.  We  called  off 
our  troops  and  so  did  Satan.  He  had  some  wounded,  but 
he  carried  them  o£f  the  battle-ground.  Since  then  we  have 
had  a  hard  tug  of  war ;  several  of  our  praying  men  have 
been  so  exhausted  that  they  could  not  engage  iu  active 
service. 

A  few  nights  ago  one  of  the  worthiest  officers  in  Jesus 
Christ's  army  was  beaten  from  his  post ;  I  found  him  in  the 
congregation  with  his  head  down  in  great  dejection,  and  sur- 
rounded with  many  in  a  similar  stat«  of  soul.  I  went  to 
him  and  said,  "What  doest  thou  here,  Elijah?"  He  had 
just  strength  enough  to  reply,  "  There  is  too  much  noise ;  I 
can  do  nothing  in  the  midst  of  it." 

"  My  brother,  I  am  astonished  at  you !  It  is  a  temptation 
of  the  devil.  I  have  just  been  mourning  over  the  death-like 
stillness  which  is  prevailing,  suspecting  it  to  arifle  from  luke- 
wammess  and  spiritual  death,  and  I  have  been  ur^g  the 
brethren  to  get  into  a  state  of  soul  in  which  they  could  shout 
for  battle  and  for  victory." 

He  saw  it  was  a  device  of  Satan,  and  escaped  out  of  the 
hand  of  the  enemy.  The  leaders  complain  of  great  hardnew' 
of  heart,  but  they  are  good  men  and  true — 

"  Valiant  hearted  men, 
Wlio  will  not  their  colors  fly." 

15« 


p.  1  'I 


—**-•-"  »OltuMi>« 


174 


VISIT  TO  CORK. 


I 

I 


The  preachers,  Rev.  Fossoy  Tackaberry,  (brobhcr  to  the 
Bev.  Mr.  TackabeiTy,  of  the  New  York  Conference,)  and 
Eev.  John  Greer,  are  possassed  of  an  excellent  spirit,  fine 
talents,  and  active  zeal  for  the  salvation  of  sinners,  and  are 
highly  esteemed  by  their  people  They  manifest  a  lively 
interest  in  the  present  conflict,  and  seem  delighted  to  open 
every  door  of  usefvdness  which  would  be  likely  to  promoia 
the  great  end  of  my  visit. 

The  principal  chapel  is  a  large  and  Substantial  building. 
Its  exterior  is  quite  pretentionless ;  the  interior,  however,  ia 
Bpacious  and  exceedingly  neat.  There  is  an  elc^^ani  an<3 
^gnified  simplicity  in  the  fitting  up  which  I  admire.  In  few 
places  of  worship  has  my  mind  eiyoyed  such  a  soothing  sens*) 
of  religious  quiet  and  seclusion  from  the  world  as  in  this. 
The  regular  congregation  is  large  and  highly  respectable ; 
•qua!  to  that  in  Abbey  street,  Dublin,  in  every  respect. 
The  preachers  insist  I  shall  occupy  the  pulpit  twice  on  the 
Sabbath  while  I  stay.  My  mind  has  been  uneasy  about  this, 
knowing  the  superior  talents  of  these  servants  of  God ;  but 
they  say,  "  Let  God  send  by  whom  he  will  send ;  we  have 
been  preaching  to  our  people  for  several  months,  and  we  shall 
have  many  opportunities  after  you  are  gone ;  we  wish  you 
to  do  all  the  good  you  can  while  you  remain  with  us." 

A  touching  scene  once  took  place  in  front  of  the  above 
chapel,  which  will  please  you.  It  was  related  to  me  by  an 
old  and  successful  class-leader  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist 
Society  in  this  city,  as  a  part  of  lus  reli^ous  experience 
He  is  one  of  the  holiest  and  most  devoted  men  of  God  I 
have  ever  met.  Although  between  seventy  and  eighty  years 
of  age,  hia  mind  seems  to  have  all  the  freshness  and  vigor  of 
youth.  He  has  been  the  instrument  of  the  conversion  of  a 
great  number  of  sinners ;  not  so  much,  I  believe,  by  publio 
exhortations  aa  by  his  private  efforts  for  their  salvation ;  by 


^  (brobhcr  to  the 
Conference,)  and 
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this  I  mean  his  close,  pungent,  and  unhnng  m'^'^^^^^^ 
Zre  t^uth  to  individual  sinners,  in  private  conversation 
^e  whtle  of  tis  time  is  now  taken  up  in  watching  over  and 
S  J'te  members  of  several  large  cl^es  -mrm  ^e^  by 

rTh^urchtohiscare.  ^-'^^''^^'':'''^Zl'Z. 
Bocioty.  The  prime  of  his  life  was  spent  m  the  ^^''f^r^' 
He  eSured  the  hardships  and  hazards  of  sever^  bl^y 
famSsinthePemnsularwar.  I*  ^« '>;  ^.'^*^,^^, 
fiXSHhe  battles  of  his  country  that  the  ciroumstaBce 
Sd  to  occurred.    I  will  give  it  you  in  nearly  his  own 

'''^uThe  2lBt  September,  1809, 1  arrived  in  Cork  by  t^ 
mail  about  three  o'clock  in  the  morning.    I  had  been  d,»- 
i'^d  S>m  the  Royal  Artillery,  my  health  havmg  suffered 
^TbsTin.     The  mormngwaa  fine,  the  BtnreetBStdl  and 
!S^!!rr.  Iknew  my  wife  and  children  were  asleep,  and  con- 
So^^tl  them  so  early.    I  w-t  te  the  front  o 
thTwesley  chapel,  laid  down  my  pa.k,  and  placed  my 
word  li  the  L;  gate,  kneeled  on  the  A  J' ^^P--^ 
mv  gracious  God  with  all  my  heart  and  soul  for  his  provi 
dSZ  hi  not  suffering  a  bone  te  be  broken  nor  a  drop 

ofty  bC  te  be  shed,  in  all  ^^^ ^^ TvTlt^^t 
I  Wl  been  engaged  under  the  Duke  of  York  and  Sir  J. 
ul ;  ling  -  by  sea  and  land,  and  for  bnnpng  me  to 

"^«S;!::.!;TGod  and  King,  I  praise  thee  for  all  ti^ 
merct  ^d  a.Lu  hast  enabledme,by  thy  graje  to  Berve 
Smi;  ^y  eaxthly  sovereign,  and  hast  I-f  f  ^^ - 
honorable  discharge  from  this  bloody  service,  I  drop,  1 1^ 
d^rm^  clal  slord  at  the  gate  of  tby  uouse,  determm  j 
by^vi^e  grace  to  put  on  more  heartily  the  whok  amor  of 
&e'brea3t.  Jate  of  righteousness,  the  ^rdle  of  tnith, 
rgospel  shoes,  the  hehnet  of  salvation,  and  the  sbeld  of 


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faith.  0  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  enable  me  now  to  take  tho 
Bword  of  the  Spirit ;  for  I  am  fully  resolved,  by  thy  assist- 
ance, to  serve  thee  as  faithfully  as  I  have  served  King 
George.  0  God,  teach  mo  to  be  expert  in  the  use  of  these 
my  spiritual  weapons;  teach  my  hands  to  war  and  my 
fingers  to  fight,  that  I  may  crucify  the  flesh,  overcome  tho 
spirit  of  the  world,  and  vanquish  all  the  powers  of  darkness ; 
serve  my  generation,  glorify  thy  name,  and  be  made  meet, 
through  rich  and  abounding  mercy,  to  enjoy  thee  in  glory, 
through  Jesus  Christ  my  Lord.    Amen." 

"  I  have  no  doubt,"  continued  the  old  Christian  warrior, 
"  after  tlurty-two  years'  experience,  this  prayer  was  heard 
and  answered.  Glory,  eternal  glory  be  ascribed  to  God ! 
Within  a  few  mmutes  of  six  o'clock  I  went  home  to  my  joy- 
.  ful,  weeping  wife  and  children.  As  I  now  had  enlisted  more 
immediately  in  the  service  of  Jesus  Christ,  I  plainly  saw  it 
was  my  duty  to  win  as  many  souls  for  my  Lord  as  I  posably 
could.  I  made  an  effort,  rough  as  it  was,  to  grapple  with 
the  servants  of  the  de^,  and  God  blessed  my  humble  en- 
deavors. My  class  soon  became  too  large,  and  had  to  be 
divided ;  then  multiplying  in  numbers,  it  was  agidn  divided 
and  sub-divided.    In  a  few  years  I  had  six  large  classes." 

Is  there  not  something  morally  grand  thrown  around  the 
above  simple  story  ?  It  is  not  every  hero,  returmng  firom 
the  field  of  battle,  who  thus  lays  his  honors  at  the  feet  of 
Christ  and  enlists  for  life  under  the  command  of  the  Captain 
of  our  salvation.  I  have  another  circumstance  to  relate, 
connected  with  this  excellent  man,  told  me  by  a  friend  the 
other  day.  It  may  be  a  blessing  to  yourself  and  other  lead- 
ers in  America,  many  of  whom  need  to  be  atirred  up  as  well 
as  those  in  Cork.  At  a  meeting,  several  years  ago,  the 
leaders  were  presenting  their  class-books  for  tfie  inspecdon 
of  the  minister.    One  good  brother  had  but  a  very  snuill 


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ow  to  take  tho 
d,  by  thy  assist- 
ve  served   King 

the  uae  of  these 
bo  war  and  my 
sh,  orercome  the 
rers  of  darkness ; 

be  made  meet, 
y  thee  in  gloiy, 

Christian  warrior, 
rayer  was  heard 
scribed  to  God! 
homo  to  my  joy- 
had  enlisted  more 
,  I  plainly  saw  it 
Jord  as  I  possibly 
,  to  grapple  with 
I  my  humble  en- 
3,  and  had  to  be 
^as  again  divided 
large  classes." 
rown  around  the 
0,  returning  from 
>rs  at  the  feet  of 
ad  of  the  Captain 
stince  to  relate, 
)  by  a  friend  the 
If  and  other  lead- 
atirred  up  as  well 
il  years  ago,  the 
!br  tJve  inspection 
but  a  very  small 


class,  and  it  had  continued  stationary  for  years.  Our  fnend 
whiskered  in  lus  ear,  »  Brother,  for  a  long  tune  you  have 
had  but  a  few  names  at  the  head  of  that  paper ;  why  don  t 
vou  get  some  of  Satan's  servants  brought  down  to  the  foot 
of  the  cross?  He  has  too  many  of  them ;  get  some  of  them 
converted,  and  fill  your  paper  with  their  names." 

The  good  man  thought  it  reflected  on  his  efficiency  as  a 
leader,  and  excWmed  aloud,  «  AH  persons  are  notsuchgood 
recruiting  sergeants  as  you  are." 

This  drew  tho  attention  of  the  meetmg;  and  some,  who 
had  been  troubled  upon  the  subject  in  iu-ir  own  case,  wero 
aroused;  and,  lest  he  should  come  down  upon  them  once 
more,  several  eloquent  speeches  were  made,  with  convincing 
arguments,  showing  why  he  was  more  successful  than  them- 
selves.  One  very  strong  reason  was  suggested,  "That  he 
had  a  talent  peculiar  to  himself ;  and  that  neither  God^  nor 
reasonable  men  would  require  them  to  do  what  he  did. ' 

For  some  time  he  endeavored  U>  prove  that  tiey  were 
wrong,  but  to  no  purpose ;  at  length  he  could  keep  his  seat 
no  longer,  and  claimed  the  floor  for  a  few  minutes. 

«  Brethren,"  he  said,  "  let  us  look  at  and  inspect  tlus  ma:i 
of  « peculiar  talent,'  and  see  how  or  wherein  he  differs  from, 
or  has  advantages  over,  the  leaders  of  this  meeting. 

"First :  Is  it  in  his  riches  f  No ;  he  is  as  poor  a  man  as 
any  among  you.    Then  it  is  not  in  his  wealth. 

"  Second :  Is  it  in  his  influence,  flowing  from  high  connec- 
tions,  or  having  been  bom  and  bred  in  your  city  ?  No ;  he 
has  no  natural  relations  here ;  and,  moreover,  he  is  a  stran- 
ger from  the  north  of  Ireland ;  who,  after  being  worn  out  m 
the  army,  came  to  your  city  with  a  shattered  constatution. 
Therefore  it  is  not  in  Ids  connections  nor  in  his  health. 

«*  Third :  Is  it  in  his  beauty  t  No ;  he  is  as  course  alook 
ing  man  as  any  of  you. 


If 


yajmj^i^'jR !.  '■'  u  viiL  •*^^k|iir  " 


wm 


'imii 


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"  Fourth :  Is  it  in  his  learning  f  No ;  for  he  has  sever 
been  at  school  to  learn  to  road  or  write ;  but  he  has  good 
reason  to  suppose  manj  of  you  have  been  favored  with 
expensive  educations.  Here  you  htive  the  advantage  of 
him. 

"  fifth :  Is  it  in  being  nuuter  of  hit  Ume  that  enables  him 
to  do  what  you  suppose  yourselves  incapable  of  doing  1  No ; 
he  must  attend  to  his  business  from  six  in  the  morning  till 
seven  or  eight  in  the  evening,  and  he  has  no  time  to  \i8it 
till  late  at  ni^t.    Here  he  stands  on  no  vantage  ground. 

"  Sixth :  Does  his  success  arise  from  his  eloquence  f  No ; 
for  want  of  learning  he  has  barely  words  to  express  his  ideas. 
Here  he  is  inferior  to  his  brethren. 

"  Seventh :  Is  it  his  talenti  that  do  the  work  ?  No ;  he 
has  just  one  talent ;  and  as  I  hope  you  are  all  converted  men, 
you  have,  at  least,  one  aJso ;  for  as  God  commands  every 
soul  he  converts  to  <  go  work  in  my  vineyard,'  and  alwayo 
gives  them  a  talent  to  occupy  till  their  Lord  calls  them  to  as 
account,  blessed  be  God,  he  has  given  me  one  also.  Neither 
in  this  has  he  any  advantage. 

"  Eighth :  Well,  is  it  in  his  holiness  t  No ;  it  would  be 
pride  to  suppose  he  has  as  much  grace  as  most  of  you. 

"But, notwithstanding,  there  is  a  great  difference  between 
him  and  you ;  will  you  allow  me  to  tell  you  wherem  it  lies  ? 

"  Well,  when  you  are  toasting  yourselves  at  your  parlor 
fires  on  wmter  nights,  or  indolently  lounging  at  home 
on  summer  evenings,  he  is  scampering  from  Blackpool  to 
Evergreen,  from  the  Custom  House  to  Dyke  Gate,  from 
Wtrth  to  south,  from  east  to  west  of  the  city ;  in  the  dark- 
ness of  the  mght,  in  all  weathers, — hail,  rain,  trind,  or 
snow ;  from  cellar  to  garret,  to  rich  and  to  poor,  to  see  who 
ne  can  get  to  lend  an  ear  to  his  counsels.  He  patiently 
listens  to  their  complaints,  he  has  a  shoulder  for  all  theii 


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for  he  has  vever 

but  he  has  good 

een  favored  with 

the  advantage  of 

>  that  enablca  him 

9  of  domg  ?  No ; 
the  morning  till 
no  time  to  \iBit 

mtage  ground. 

eloquence f    No; 

express  his  ideas. 

work?  No;  he 
all  converted  men, 

commands  every 
^ard,'  and  always 
[  calls  them  to  as 
de  also.    Neither 

No ;  it  would  be 
lost  of  you. 
liflFerence  between 
1  wherein  it  lies  ? 
3S  at  your  parlor 
lunging  at  home 
■om  Blackpool  to 
)yke  Gate,  from 
ity ;  m  the  dark- 
ly rain,  wind,  or 

poor,  to  see  who 
is.  He  patiently 
Lider  for  aU  theii 


cro38wi,he  lets  them  feel  he  loves  them  by  takuigakind 
interest  in  what  concerns  them,  and  gives  the  best  advice  he 
can  for  both  worlds ;   in  this  way  he  convinces  them  of  hia 
disinterested  love,  he  gains  influence,  he  prevails  upon  them 
to  attend  the  preaching  of  God's  word,  to  read  it  at  homo, 
and  pray  for  the  Holy  Spirit.    By  these  means  they  are 
brought  under  a  concern  for  their  souls;  he  gete  them  mto 
his  classes,  and  they  are  soon  converted  to  God.    This  i0 
the  way,  my  brethren,  he  fiUshis  ranks,  and  his  classes  over- 
flow.    Has  he  made  a  secret  of  hia  plans?    Has  he  not  over 
and  over  again  urged  you  to  adopt  the  same  measures,  in- 
sistmg  that  equal  causes  will  produce  equal  effects  the  world 
over  ?  and  he  now,  in  the  name  of  God,  humbly  presses  the 
same  upon  your  consciences.    If  you  will  go  and  do  likewise, 
the  same  results  will  surely  follow.    It  is  not  in  the  man, 
but  in  the  manner  in  which  his  talent  is  occupied." 

AU  the  leaders  dropped  their  heads  and  were  silent,  with 
the  exception  of  one  very  clever  local  preacher,  whose  feel- 
ings were  not  unlike  young  Elihu's,  when  he  saw  that  Job 
haa  confounded  his  three  counsellors,  EUphaa,  BUdad,  and 
Zophar,  and  said,  «  Behold,  there  was  none  of  you  that  con- 
vinced Job,  or  that  answered  his  words.    Now  he  hath  not 
directed  his  words  against  me;  neither  will  I  answer  him 
with  your  speeches.     They  were  amazed,  they  answered  no 
more;  they  left  off  speaking.     When  I  had  waited,  (for 
they  spake  not,  but  stood  still,  and  answered  no  more ;)  I 
said,  I  will  answer  also  my  part,  I  wiU  also  shew  mine  opinion. 
For  I  am  full  of  matter,  the  spirit  within  me  constraineth  me. 
Behold,  my  belly  is  as  wine  which  hath  no  vent ;  it  is  ready 
to  burst  like  new  bottles.     I  will  speak,  that  I  may  be 
refreshed:  I  inll  open  my  Ups  and  answer."    Job  xxxu. 

12 — 20. 
Thus  it  was,  probably,  with  this  good  brother.    He  tlirew 


m 

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',  ■■■  ■" 


nes? 


I  man 


I  >>iijW>  hhii>iiii 


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Ids  i^oul  into  it,  and  reasoned  powerfully.  Men  will  make 
BpeccLcs,  lay  down  rules,  and  discuss  principles ;  yea,  do 
any  tl\ing  and  every  thmg  but  the  "  real  matter-of-fact  work ;" 
hard,  patient,  steady,  humiliating,  and  painful  drudgery  of 
saving  louls  from  hell ;  in  the  shop,  as  in  the  parlor ;  in  the 
cellar,  garret,  street,  or  field,  as  in  the  house  of  God.  When 
ho  had  refreshed  himself  the  venerable  man  rose  and  asked 
the  brother,  "  Don't  you  keep  a  shop  ?" 

"  I  do,'-'  was  the  reply. 

"  WeU,  rappose  I  could  tell  you  of  an  arbce,  by  dealmg 
in  which,  on  fair  and  honest  principles,  you  could  clear  five 
hundred  pounds  per  annum,  would  you  not  come  to  me  to 
learn  the  seci'et?" 

"I  would." 

"  I  believe  you ;  and  what  does  this  prove  in  your  case, 
but  that  you  love  money  better  than  the  souls  bought  with 
Jesus  Christ's  most  precious  blood,  else  you  would  have  come 
to  me  to  learn  this  wonderful  charm  you  conceive  I  possess 
for  converting  souls." 

The  person  who  related  the  above,  concluded  by  remark- 
ing :  "  That  local  preacher  entered  eternity  soon  after,  and  he 
now  knows  whether  he  won  as  many  souls  for  Christ  as  was 
possible  in  his  state  of  probation." 

Conversing  with  tlus  "  good  soldier  of  Jesus  Christ,"  the 
oflier  day,  he  remarked,  "Once,  only,  these  tlurly-twoyean 
have  I  been  obliged  to  part  with  one  from  my  class,  whom  I 
thought  a  true  penitent,  without  obtaining  pardon ;"  addmg, 
"  I  let  not  a  penitent  rest  till  he  has  obtained  this  blessing, 
for  the  follovnng  reasons :  — 

"Rrst :  It  would  grieve  the  Holy  Spirit. 

"  Second:  It  would  prove  my  want  of  love  to  souls,  and 
faith  in  the  truth  and  power  of  God.  The  Samaritan  not 
only  touched  Ihe  man  who  had  been  robbed  and  wounded 


L 


i 


Men  Trill  make 
iciples ;  yoa,  do 
Br-of-fact  work ;" 
iful  drudgery  of 
lie  parlor ;  in  the 
«  of  God.  When 
n  rose  and  asked 


rbo.e,  by  dealrng 
a  could  clear  five 
;  come  to  me  to 


ve  in  your  case, 
souIb  bought  with 
L  would  have  come 
lonceive  I  possess 

luded  by  remark- 
soon  after,  and  he 
for  Christ  as  was 

'esus  Christ,"  the 
le  thirty-two  years 
my  class,  whom  I 
pardon ;"  adding, 
ined  this  blessing. 


ove  to  souls,  and 
lie  Samaritan  not 
bed  and  woanded 


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by  the  thieves,  and  left  half  dead,  but,  after  binding  up  his 
wounds,  he  lifted  him  on  his  beaat,  and  brought  hmi  to 

»afe  lodgings.  ,      ^         ■       <,«. 

"Third:  It  would  give  Satan  many  advantages  m  per- 

Dlexine  and  distracting  the  nund. 

«  Fourth :  It  would  set  a  ba^  example  to  all  who  may  be 
present,  as  weU  a.  to  those  who  should  hear  of  the  ciroum 

'  "Fifth:  It  would  tend  to  weaken  my  own  faith;  but  I 
want  it  strengthened  both  in  myself  and  others. 

«  Sixth :  As  unbeUef  is  the  awful,  damning  sm  under  the 
gospel,  he  who  can  be  the  means  of  accelerating  its  destruc- 
L  intbeheart  of  another,  and  does  not ;  "e^^^Jrj^ 
neighbor  as  he  ought,  nor  is  he  a  loyal  subject  of  his  heaven- 
ly Lg ;  nor  ought  he  to  be  very  confident  of  his  own  adop- 
tion into  the  family  of  God." 

I  know  you  will  excuse  me  for  writing  so  much  about  this 
dear  man ;  I  love  him,  and  have  derived  much  benefit  to  my 
own  soul  from  bis  conversation.  r  nWrv«d 

The  9th  instant  was  my  birth-day.     As  usual,  I  observed 
the  8tb  as  a  private  watch-night,  and  had  a  most  solemntime 
in  dedicating  myself  anew  to  God.      A  review  of  the  past 
^oHas  aLnded  witii  deep  humiUation  and  gratitude. 
Since  then  I  have  enjoyed  more  abitog  peaj^e,  and  sweeter 
^nmimiion  with  my  heavenly  Father,  than  at  any  tme  smce 
1  axrival  in  Ireland.    About  thirty  smners  have  been  con- 
verted.    I  wish  I  could  have  stated  a  larger  number.     My 
soul  is  much  humbled.    We  are  resolved,  by  the  help  of  God, 
to  push  our  principles  to  the  utmost  for  an  extensive  reviva^. 
Hlmer  on  a  rock  long  enough,  audit  must  break  m  pieces. 
Tin.  is  true,  to  some  extent,  with  mind     Gfj^^l^^J* 
hammer  to  break  tbe  rocky  hearts  in  pieces  before  the  Lord. 
16 


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I  met  with  tho  following  sentiments  of  an  old  writer,  th« 
other  day:  "Men  will  wrangle  for  religion;  write  for  it; 
fight  for  it ;  die  for  it ;  any  thing  but  live  for  it."  I  can 
Bay,  m  behalf  of  the  preachers  and  leaders  in  Cork,  that  they 
seem  not  only  willing  to  fight  with  spiritual  weapons  for  a 
revival,  to  die,  if  it  be  God's  will,  in  the  tremendous  conflict, 
but  to  live  for  a  revival  in  the  most  spiritual  sense  of  that 
term.  I  do  believe,  with  my  whole  soul,  God  will  not  dis- 
appoint them. 

In  a  letter  dated  May  9, 1842,  we  find  a  continuance  of 
his  descriptions  of  the  work  of  God  and  of  his  personal  move- 
ments while  he  renuuned  in  Cork.    He  there  says :  — 

I  have  been  in  this  city  nearly  two  months,  engaged  in 
my  beloved  work  of  calling  sinners  to  repentance.  As  I 
take  exercise  every  day,  for  an  hour  or  two,  either  in  riding 
or  walking,  an  opportunity  has  been  aflforded  me  for  making 
a  few  observations  wWch  may  perhaps  gratify  and  amuse 
you.  Cork  is  seated  on  the  river  Lee,  about  fifteen  nules 
from  the  ocean;  is  the  capital  of  the  county  bearing  the 
same  name,  and  the  second  city  in  the  kingdom.  It  haa 
long  been  considered  "  the  metropolis,  and  the  grand  em- 
porium "  of  the  south  of  Ireland.  The  ancient  city  ori^- 
ally  covered  an  island,  formed  by  two  branches  of  the  Lee, 
^hich  divided  above  and  joined  again  below  the  island. 
Spenser,  in  his  "  Faerie  Queeno,"  describes  it  thus, — 

"  The  spreading  Lee,.tbat  like  an  island  fair 
Enclodeth  Cork  with  his  divided  flood." 

The  muted  Lee  and  the  salt  water  mix  below  the  city  and 
form  a  commodious  harbor.  Ancient  Cork  partook  of  tho 
shape  of  the  island,  ^ch  resembled  an  egg.  It  was  walled 
and  fortified  by  the  Danes,  about  the  middle  of  th«  ninth 


1  old  writer,  the 
m  ;  write  for  it ; 
I  for  it."  I  can 
n  Cork,  that  thoy 
lal  weapons  for  a 
mendous  conflict, 
lal  sense  of  that 
hi  will  not  di»- 


.  a  continuance  of 
lis  personal  move- 
Tc  says :  — 

onths,  engaged  m 
ipentance.  As  I 
0,  either  in  riding 
ed  me  for  making 
ratify  and  amuse 
ibout  fifteen  miles 
lunty  bearing  the 
kingdom.  It  has 
id  the  grand  em- 
ncient  city  origjn- 
iches  of  the  Lee, 
below  the  island. 
)es  it  thus, — 

Id  fair 
xl." 

below  the  city  and 
rk  partook  of  the 
;g.  It  was  walled 
iddle  of  th«  ninth 


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183 


century,  but  in  consequence  of  the  lowness  of  its  position, 
could  never  have  been  a  place  of  much  strength. 

Modem  Cork  boa  spread  herself  over  a  cluster  of  little 
marshy  islands,  separated  by  small  branches  of  the  river. 
The  channels,  however,  ."o  now  arched  over,  and  wide 
streets  occupy  their  places.    The  two  mmn  branches  which 
encompass  the  city  are  still  open,  and  are  called  the  north 
and  south  channels,  and  afford  a  fine  harbor  for  the  shipping. 
I  understand  there  is  a  resemblance,  in  this  respect,  between 
Cork  and  most  of  the  cities  in  Holland.    Although  its  posi- 
tion seems  to  be  unfavorable  to  health,  I  am  not  aware  that 
it  is  any  more  unhealthy  than  other  cities  in  Ireland.    Many 
years  ago  it  was  visited  by  severe  epidemics,  but  m  conse- 
quence of  valuable  improvements,  such  as  arching  the  vari- 
ous canals,  and  raismg,  though  at  an  immense  expense,  vaat 
portions  of  the  marshy  ground,  such  visitations  have  been 
rare  for  many  years.    Besides,  the  tides  of  the  ocean  have 
free  access,  daily,  through  all  these  covered  channels.    Their 
ebbs  and  flows,  together  with  the  current  of  a  swift  river, 
give  such  a  brisk  circulation  of  pure  water  through  these 
concealed  arteries  and  veins  as  keep  them  perfectly  clean. 
Were  it  not  for  the  cleanliness  of  Cork,  (I  speak  of  its 
covered  channels  and  sewers  of  different  kinds,  for  some  of 
the  Btreeta  are  very  narrow  and  cQrty,  especially  in  the 
ancient  part  of  the  city,)  I  should  judge  it  could  not  escape 
epidenucs.    The  marshy  ground  upon  which  it  is  built,  the 
heavy  fogs  which  settle  upon  it,  and  the  immense  quantitieB 
of  rain  which  descend  in  the  course  of  a  year,  not  less,  I  am 
informed,  than  an  average  of  thirty-eight  inches,  would  lead 
a  stranger  to  this  conclusion.    Since  my  arrival  I  have  had 
excellent  health ;  but,  could  you  see  the  elevated  and  lovely 
spot  where  I  reside,  and  wluch  I  am  r^ucsted,  by  the  most 
convmcing  and  substantial  forms  of  Irish  hospitality,  to  call 


IM 


|^H.^i-a..^ii.V.l|l|llll!l|liil»iy; 


'^"Ms^l:msxslii!Ji:,^Mi■kmmf>!''' 


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my  homo,  and  tlio  beautiful  prospects  spread  around  mo  on 
every  side,  with  elegant  grouuda,  and  walks  shaded  with  lofty 
trees, — 

'*  Where  meditation 
Mlglit  think  down  liourn  to  minutes,  where  the 
Heart  might  give  a  useful  lesson  to  the  head, 
And  learning,  wiser  grow,  without  her  booki,"— 

you  would  not  wonder  that  I  enjoy  the  "  fuU  tide  of  health," 
and  of  what  the  world  calls  "  good  spirits."  So  much  fof 
♦'  Hayficld ;"  but  it  is  in  the  pleasant  society  of  Mr.  Perrot's 
excellent  and  mteUigent  family  I  enjoy  that  which,  "  Whilst 
by  numbers  sought,  is  realized  by  few," —  real  happiness. 
There  is  just  one  drawback,  and  it  belongs  to  ail  things  of 
an  earthly  nature,  I  must  soon  bid  these  pleasant  scenes 
farewell ;  and  once  more  "  a  stranger  stand,  unknowing  and 
unknown ;"  so  that  the  sentiment  can  only  be  realized  in 
heaven,  "  A  perpetuity  of  bliss,  is  bliss."  I  know  these 
items  of  my  personal  comforts  will  not  be  umnterestmg  to 
you ;  and  I  would  add  another,  which  an  excellent  author 
Bays  is  "  a  main  article  of  human  happiness, — the  exercise 
of  our  faculties,  whether  of  body  or  mind,  in  the  pursuit  of 
some   engaging  end."     What  that   "  encaeinff  end " 


engagmg 


IS, 

the 


which  absorbs  my  whole  being,  you  very  well  know,- 
conversion  of  sinners  to  God. 

As  I  have  digressed  so  far,  allow  me  to  tell  you  something 
better  than  all.  My  soul  enjoys  deep  and  almost  uninter- 
rupted communion  with  God.  This  throws  a  brightening 
charm  upon  every  thing  around  me,  and  imparts  a  relish  for 
all  that  is  beautiful  and  grand  in  the  works  of  nature  and 
art,  or  whatever  is  enga^ng  and  pleasant  in  human  society. 
For,  as  Bishop  Home  says,  "He  who  hath  his  thoughts 
about  him,  can  enjoy  no  bodily  pleasure  while  he  thinks  his 
foul  is  in  danger  of  hell  fire  ;  but  the  reflection,  that  all  is 


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185 


ad  around  mo  on 
shaded  with  lofly 


irc  tht 

lOad, 

ookl,"— 

U  tide  of  health," 
J."  So  much  for 
ty  of  Mr.  Perrot's 
t  which,  «  WhUst 
—  real  happiness. 
^  to  all  thingis  of 
i  pleasant  scenes 
d,  unknowing  and 
ily  be  realized  in 
'  I  know  thoso 
»  unmteresting  to 

excellent  author 
ess, — the  exorcise 
,  m  the  pursuit  of 
gaging  end "  is, 

well  know, —  tho 

bell  you  something 
d  almost  uninter- 
iws  a  bri^tening 
nparta  a  relish  for 
*ks  of  nature  and 
in  human  society, 
hath  his  thoughts 
rhile  he  thinks  his 
flection,  that  all  is 


right  with  respect  to  another  world,  doubles  every  joy  that 
he  can  taste  in  this."  * 

"  Tho  mind  that  feel*  no  smart, 
Enllveni  all  it  aeea." 

But  I  have  more  glorious  news  to  tell  you ;  tho  revival  is 
still  going  forward  with  power.  Yesterday,  (Sabbath,)  a 
glorious  day  !  ten  converted  and  two  backsliders  restored  ; 
one  of  the  hitter  had  wandered  from  God  sixteen  years,  tho 

other  seven. 

I  thuik  it  scarcely  necessary  to  occupy  your  time  with  a 
description  of  the  pubUc  buildings,  and  other  interesting 
objects  of  this  kind,  as  they  are  so  similar  to  those  which  aro 
peculiar  to  all  large  and  commercial  cities.  The  Cathedral 
ii  respectable,  but  not  ancient.  There  are  also  several 
handsome  parish  churches.  I  think  the  St.  Ann's,  Shandon, 
has  a  more  imposing  aspect  than  the  Cathedral.  It  has  a 
tower  one  hundred  and  seventy  feet  high,  two  sides  of  which 
are  limestone,  and  two  of  brown  stone,  which  give  it  a  sin- 
gular appearance ;  and  a  good  chime  of  bells,  as  you  may 
learn  from  an  old  Cork  poet,  in  exile : 

With  deep  affection, 
And  rocoUection, 
I  often  think  on 

Tho»o  Shandon  belli } 
.Wbo»e  sound  bo  wild,  would 
In  days  of  childhood, 
Fling  round  my  cradle 

Their  magic  spells. 

On  this  I  ponder, 

Where'er  I  wander, 

And  thus  grow  fonder  •* 

Sweet  Cork,  of  thee  J 
With  thy  bells  of  Shandon, 
That  sound  so  grand  on 
The  pleasant  waters 

Of  the  river  Lee. 

w 


■'* 


f*f 


!»  WK,W 


minil  w  ll]|'l,||.^lll,..lH.i^|<>r^^l— jwpue 


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There  are  also  the  usual  number  of  churches  belonging  to 
the  existmg  denominations  of  Christendom.  The  Roman 
Catholics  are  the  most  numerous.  The  Wesleyan  Metho- 
dists have  another  handsome  chapel,  besides  the  one  I  have 
already  described,  but  much  smaller. 

I  have  not  ascertuned  the  exact  population  of  Cork,  but  I 
should  judge  it  nearly  twice  as  krge  as  that  of  the  city  of 
Albany,  N.  Y. ;  and  the  population  of  limerick  double  that 
of  Troy,  N.  Y.  Are  you  a'vare  that  a  tomb  in  this  city  con 
tarns  the  dust  of  our  beloved  Boardman  ?  I  say  our  BoRtd 
man,  because  his  name  shall  be  for  ever  identified  with 
Amencan  Methodism.  Upon  an  early  and  prominent  page 
of  the  history  of  the  Method^t  Episcopal  Church  is  enshrined, 
among  a  few  others,  the  name  of  Richard  Boardman.  It  is 
also  recognized  by  hundreds  of  thousands  in  our  book  of  dis- 
cipline. He  died  in  Cork,  A.  D.  1783.  On  referring  to 
the  minutes  of  the  English  Conference  for  1769,  which  was 
that  year  held  in  Leeds,  Yorkshire,  X  find  the  following 
record.    Mr.  Wesley  proposed  the  question :  — 

"  We  have  a  pressmg  call  from  our  brethren  in  New  York, 
(who  have  built  a  preaching-house,)  to  come  over  and  help 
them.    Who  is  willing  to  go  ? 

«  Answer :  Richard  Boardman  and  Joseph  Pilmoor.*' 

These  were  the  first  regular  Methodist  preachers  in  Amer- 
ica. Mr.  Boardman  remained  long  enough  in  the  western 
world  to  have  his  ministry  blessed  to  many  thousands ;  but 
the  revolutionary  war  breaking  out,  circumstances  obliged 
him  to  sail  for  England,  and  he  never  returned.  Mr.  Wes 
ley  appointed  him  to  this  city  in  1782.  The  following 
account  of  his  death  I  extract  from  the  Methodist  Magazine 
for  1783:  — 

"  On  the  29th  September,  1782,  Mr.  Richard  Boardman, 
having  been  about  eleven  days  in  Cork,  when  walking,  was 


L 


3hes  belonging  to 
Q.  The  Roman 
Vesleyan  Metho- 
!3  the  one  I  have 

an  of  Cork,  but  I 
■it  of  the  city  of 
3rick  double  that 
)  in  this  city  con 
[  say  our  Bonrd 
>  identified  with 
prominent  page 
roh  is  enshmed, 
loardman.  It  is 
our  book  of  dis- 
On  referring  to 
1769,  which  was 
id  the  following 

• 

Bn  in  New  York, 
e  over  and  help 

h  Pilmoor." 
iachers  in  Amer> 
h  in  the  western 

thousands;  but 
dstancea  obliged 
led.    Mr.  Wes 

The  following 
bodist  Magame 

hard  Boardman, 
en  walking,  was 


I 


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18T 


suddenly  struck  blind,  so  that  he  could  not  fini  his  way,  till 
one  of  cur  friends  met  him  and  took  him  by  the  hand.     Soon 
after,  he  recovered  himself,  and  sat  down  to  dinner.     Upon 
doing  so  he  was  immediately  deprived  both  of  speech  and 
underetanding,  one  of  his  sides  being  at  the  same  time 
strongly  contracted.    After  a  few  hours  he  became  nearly 
well ;  in  a  few  days  perfectly  so.    His  mind  was  calm  and 
serene  ;  no  anxiety  about  Ufe  or  death.    A  few  days  before, 
on  leaving  Limerick,  he  told  Mrs.  B.  that  he  should  die  in 
Cork ;  but  he  spoke  it  without  the  least  concern,  as  knowing 
in  whom  he  had  beUeved.     He  preached  twice  after  receiv- 
ing the  shock.     The  Sabbath  previous  to  his  first  intimation 
of  his  call,  he  preached  from,  '  Though  he  slay  me,  yet  wiU 
I  trust  in  him ;'  and  it  was  a  solemn  meeting.     On  Friday 
morning  he  appeared  easy,  and  met  the  people  at  the  hour 
of  intercession,  when  it  was  observed  that  he  had  an  uncom- 
mon degree  v."  freedom  and  power  with  God.    He  prayed 
fervently  for  the  people,  and  begged  that  if  tlus  was  the  last 
meeting  in  this  world,  they  might  have  a  happy  meeting  in 
the  realms  of  light. 

"  About  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  he  went  to  dine 
with  a  friend  in  Blarney  lane.  As  he  was  walking,  his  wife 
observed  him  to  falter  in  his  speech,  and  desired  him  to 
return,  but  he  would  not  comply.  As  soon  as  he  came  into 
the  house  he  sunk  down  insensible.  He  was  brouf^t  home 
in  a  carriage,  and  two  physicians  were  sent  for.  They  both 
declared  him  beyond  help.  He  continued  thus  till  nine  in 
the  evening.  He  then  expired  in  the  arms  of  two  of  hia 
brethren,  and  in  the  presence  of  many  who  commended  him 
to  God,  with  sorrowful  hearts  and  weeping  eyes.  His  funeral 
sermon  was  preached  by  Mr.  Yewdall,  from  Revelation  xiv. 
13,  to  as  large  a  congregation  as  had  ever  been  seen  in  the 
Cork  chapel." 


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A  few  days  ago  a  young  brother  conducted  me  to  hu 
grave,  which  is  near  to  the  Cathedral.  I  cannot  well  ex- 
press to  you  my  sensations  on  beholding  it.  We  knelt  down 
upon  the  stone,  and  worshipped  God.  With  deep  emotion  I 
exclaimed,  "  What  hath  God  wrought "  in  America  since 
precious  Boardman  visited  those  shores !  Then,  there  were 
not  more  than  two  hundred  members  in  our  societies,  on  the 
entire  continent;  now,  in  the  United  States  alone,  we  have 
nearly  one  million  of  members !  After  prayer,  I  copied  the 
following  from  the  plain  slab  which  covers  his  dust : — 

BICHARD  BOARDMAN, 

Departed  this  life  October  4th,  1783, 

jEtatis  44. 

Beneath  this  stone,  the  dnst  of  Boardman  Ilea, 
His  precious  soul  has  soared  above  the  skies ; 
With  eloquence  divine,  he  preached  the  word 
To  multitudes,  and  turned  them  to  the  Lord. 
Ilis  bright  example  strengthened  what  he  taught, 
And  devils  trembled  when  for  Christ  he  fought 
With  truly  Christian  zeal  he  nations  fired, 
And  all  who  Icnew  him  mourned  when  he  expired. 

Perhaps  the  following  remarkable  interposition  of  Divine 
Providence,  in  behalf  of  this  man  of  God,  might  be  interest- 
ing to  you.  It  was  related  by  himself,  a  short  time  before 
hie  death : — 

"  I  preached,"  said  Mr.  B.,  "  one  evening,  at  Mould,  in 
Flintshire,  and  next  morning  set  out  for  Farkgate.  After 
riding  some  miles  I  asked  a  man  if  I  was  on  the  road  to  that 
place.  He  answered, '  Tes,  but  you  will  have  some  sands  to 
go  over,  and  unless  you  ride  fast,  you  will  be  in  danger  of 
bemg  inclosed  by  the  tide.* 

"  It  then  began  to  snow  to  such  a  degree  that  I  could 
Bcaroely  see  a  step  of  my  way,  and  my  mare  bein^;  with  foal 


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189 


tcted  me  to  hlf 
cannot  well  ex- 
We  knelt  down 
deep  emotion  I 
America  since 

hen,  there  were 

societies,  on  the 
alone,  we  have 

er,  I  copied  the 

i  dust : — 


lea, 

)8; 

ird 

d. 

anght, 

light 

npired. 

siiion  of  Divine 
ght  be  interest* 
ort  time  before 

>g,  at  Mould,  m 
trkgate.  After 
the  road  to  that 
e  some  sands  to 
be  in  danger  of 

ree  that  I  could 
beinjE  with  foal 


\ 


prevented  me  from  riding  so  fast  as  I  otherwise  should  have 
C    I  got  to  the  sands,  and  pursued  my  journey  over 
Tm  for  some  time;  but  the  tide  then  came  in,  and  aur- 
Wed  me  on  every  side,  so  that  I  could  neither  proceed 
ZL  ba«k ;  and  to  aacend  the  perpendicular  rocks  w« 
^possible.    In  this  situation  I  commended  my  so^  to  God 
net  having  tiie  least  expectation  of  escaping  dea&.    In  a 
me  time  I  perceived  two  men  nmning  down  a  bU  on  the 
otiier  side  of  the  water,  and  by  some  -eans  they  got  a  b^  , 
and  came  to  my  reUef  just  as  tiie  sea  had  reached  mj  knees 
Tl  sat  on  my  saddle.    They  took  me  into  the  boat^he 
^e'limmin'g  by  our  «de,  till  we  reached  ^e^^^'  J^^ 
^e  were  in  the  boat,  one  of  the  men  said,  '  Surely,  Sir,  God 

is  with  you.'  ^  ^ 

« I  answered,  « I  trust  he  is.  .      ,  ^^        ,  .  ,  ,, 

«  The  man  replied,  *  I  know  he  is ;'  and  tben  related  the 
following  circumstance :  '  Last  night  I  dreamed  that  I  miu,t 
go  to  the  top  of  such  a  hill.    When  I  awoke  ^e  dr.am  made 
fuch  an  impresBion  on  my  mind  that  I  could  not  rest.    I 
therefore  went  and  called  upon  this  man  to  accompany  me. 
When  we  came  to  the  place,  we  saw  nothmg  ^o^«  ^'^f.^^^jf ' 
However,  I  begged  Wm  to  go  with  me  to  another  hiU  at  a 
frnT^Lnccld  there  we  saw  your  ^--f  «*-*>- 
When  we  got  ashore,  I  went  with  my  two  fnends  to  a  pubho 
house,  not  far  totant  from  where  we  landed ;  ^  ^  we 
were  relating  the  wonderful  providence,  the  landlady  ^d, 
.  This  day  month  we  saw  a  gentleman  just  in  your  8it«ati«i ; 
but  befo^  we  could  hapten  to  his  reUef  he  Plunged  >nto  the 
«,a  supposing,  as  we  concluded,  that  his  horse  would  Bwun  to 
r  sZT  bS  they  both  s^,  and  -- ^^t^^^^*^ 
«  I  gave  my  deUverers  all  the  money  I  had,  which  I  thmk 
WBB  aLt  eiiteenpence,  and  tarried  all  night  at  the  hotel. 
Next  morning  I  was  not  a  Uttle  embarrassed  how  to  pay  my 


m 


mmim^n 


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reckening,  for  the  want  of  cash,  and  begged  that  the  land 
lord  would  keep  a  pair  of  silver  spurs  till  I  should  redeem 
them ;  but  he  answered,  *  The  Lord  bless  you,  Sir !  I  would 
not  take  a  fartbmg  from  you  for  the  world.'  After  som; 
serious  conversation  with  the  fnendly  people,  I  bade  them 
farewell,  and  re-commenced  my  journey,  rejoicing  in  the 
Lord,  and  praising  him  for  his  great  salvation." 

On  the  20th  ult.  a  party  of  us  visited  the  famous  Blarney 
Castle.  It  stands  in  a  pleasant  vale,  on  the  banks  of  a  little 
river  of  the  same  name,  five  miles  from  Cork.  A  square 
tower,  one  hundred  feet  in  front,  fifty  in  breadth,  and 'one 
hundred  and  thirty  feet  high,  is  all  that  remains  of  tUs  onco 
floorishing  castle,  with  the  exception  of  a  small  castellated 
battery  close  by.  A  singular  awe  crept  over  my  mind  on 
first  beholding  it  from  a  neighboring  eminence.  It  stands 
alone,  surrounded  with  ancient  trees,  but  lismg  far  above 
them/frowning  upon  their  aspiring  branches,  as  if  haughtily 
demanding  the  respectful  homage  of  other  days,  when  favored 
with  the  radiant  smiles  of  fortune.  The  storms  of  four  cen* 
turies  have  made  little  impression  upon  its  aspect,  other  than 
those  hoary  hues  which  the  Scriptures  say  are  a  orown  of 
gloiy  to  an  aged  man,  when  found  in  the  ways  of  righteous- 
ness. One  feels  willing,  when  approaching  its  peaceful  ram- 
parts, to  .award  such  a  tribute  of  respectful  veneration  to 
Blarney  Castle.  The  sound  of  the  bugle  and  clash  of  arms 
are  hetun  here  no  more.  Royalty  and  grandeur  have  long 
fflnoe  flfid  away.  The  stir  and  din  of  multitudes  have  sub 
nded  into  tiie  stillness  of  death.  No  sentinel  challenge^ 
your  approaching  footsteps.  All  is  deep,  dread,  unbroken 
eoUtode :— - 

"  Not «  wand,  lave  natnre't  own, 
Oonld  o'er  tho  silence  ■well,        ^ 
To  jar  the  chord*  of  qniet  thonj^  - 
Or  break  seolwion'e  ipelL" 


T 


t^MMmimlSlb, 


that  the  land 
should  redecoo 
u,  Sir !  I  would 
.*  After  somf 
le,  I  bade  them 
'ejoicmg  in  the 
i.» 

Eamous  Blarney 
banks  of  a  little 
>rk.  A  square 
'eadth,  and 'one 
ins  of  this  once 
nail  castellated 
rer  mj  mind  on 
ace.  It  stands 
rismg  far  above 
as  if  haughtily 
B,  when  favored 
ms  of  four  cen- 
}ect,  other  than 
are  a  crown  of 
TS  of  righteous- 
8  peaceful  ram- 
veneration  to 
d  clash  of  arms 
leur  have  long 
ides  have  sub 
inel  challenge*, 
i^ad,  unbroken 


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191 


It  II  luili,  uk9  moat  of  the  castles  in  this  country,  upon  a  rock. 
The  eli]i&  facing  the  river  rise  about  fifty  feet.  The  opposite 
side  of  the  castle  is  on  a  level,  in  its  lower  story,  with  an  exten- 
sive lawn  or  meadow  sprinkled  with  fine  trees.  We  ascended 
to  the  top  by  a  spiral  stone  staircase,  of  the  same  workman- 
ship  as  these  near  Limerick.  It  is  roofless  and  floorless ;  but 
there  is  a  substantial  promenade  on  the  top,  inside  the  para- 
pet, which  widens  towards  the  south  and  cast,  by  means  of 
machicolated  jArapets.  These  rest  upon  projecting  corbells, 
hamg  opemngs  or  crenells  at  proper  distances,  through 
which,  I  have  been  told,  in  former  days  of  hazard  and  Wood, 
they  poured  down  melted  lead,  and  other  destructive  mate- 
rials, upon  the  unfortunate  heads  of  the  besiegers.  The 
prospect  from  the  top  is  very  good ;  but,  contddering  the 
length  of  my  letter,  you  will  excuse  the  omisaon  of  a  descrip- 
tion. I  was  interested  with  the  various  win^gs  of  thre« 
small  streams,  neighboring  the  castle ;  Blarney,  Cormane, 
and  Scorthenac.  The  celebrated  "Blarney  stone"  was 
pointed  out  to  us.  You  have  often  heard  of  the  susfHcious 
phrase,  "  A  little  blarney."  This  phrase  originated  from 
some  legend  belonging  to  this  Blarney  stohe.  It  is  currently 
reported  here,  and  the  reputed  facts  of  the  case  have  circu> 
lated  from  father  to  son,  through  many  generationa,  that 
who  ever  kisses  it  will  always  have  a  flattering,  cajoling 
tongue  ;  from  that  moment  he  is  enabled  to  tell  the  finooth- 
est  and  most  insinuating  lies  without  a  blush !  Now  "  don't 
be  after  putting  on  "  that  look  of  incredulity,  so  pecuKar  to 
American  unbelievers,  and  which  has  frightened  many  a  poor 
Irishman  among  you  out  of  half  his  story.  But  you  must 
hear  an  Irish  poet,  by  some  called  tl?  «  MeMuent  Millildn," 
describe  its  wonder-working  properties : — 

"  TIioM  is  a  stone  there,  who  ever  kisses, 
Oh !  he  never  misses  to  gr»ir  eloquent ; 


i3f 


^ 


192 


VISIT  TO  CORK. 


'Til  he  may  clamber    *    *    *    •    • 
Or  become  a  member  of  Parliament 
A  clever  spouter,  he'U  rare  torn  out,  or 
An  out  and  outer,  to  be  lot  alone  ; 
Don't  hope  to  hinder  him,  or  bewilder  him  j 
Sni«  he's  •  pilgrim  to  the  Blarney  stone." 

Another  wnter  tells  ua,  in  plain  unvarnished  prose,  that  thi» 
touch  of  this  stone  "  makes  a  liar  of  the  first  magmtude ;  a* 
the  same  time,  a  smooth  graceful  liar ;"  that  "  its  eminent 
perfection  is  a  sweet  persuasive  language,  than  can  whisper 
the  softest  words  into  the  ears  of  those  who  are  to  be  de- 
ceived ;  full  of  guile  and  blandishment,  and  potential  flattery, 

and  uncontrollable  suasion  over  the  credulity  of ." 

This  stone  I  saw,  if  our  guide  were  correct ;  but  I  assure 
you  my  lips  were  not  within  a  >-ard  of  it.  It  is  recorded 
that  Sir  Walter  Scott  made  a  pilgrimage  to  it,  in  August, 
1826,  in  company  with  some  others,  and  that  he  passed 
through  (he  ceremony  of  Idssmg  it. 

I  write  by  the  present  packet  to  any  Conference.  My 
demre  is  to  continue  my  tour.  Neariy  two  years  have 
exjAred  WBce  its  commencement.  It  is  doubtful  whether  I 
shall  return  before  1844.  My  letter  contains  a  request  for 
a  "  location,"  according  to  the  discipline  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  I  have  asked  for  such  a  relation,  con- 
scientiously, that  I  may  not  infimge  upon  any  of  the  rights 
of  the  Members  of  Conference.  By  their  approbation  I  have 
continued  my  tour  til!  now.  Last  year  I  sent  them  the  cer- 
tificate of  my  ministerial  character  firom  the  quarterly  meet- 
ing of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Society,  Montreal ;  and  tiiii 
year  I  send  another  firom  a  mmflar  meeting  of  the  same  body 
in  Cork.  Should  they  grant  me  a  location,  it  separates  me 
from  any  future  claims  upon  the  funds  of  ilie  church ;  that 
is,  should  my  health  fwl,  or  any  unforeseen  difficulty  arise  m 
my  temporal  affiurs,  before  I  rejoin  the  itinerant  ranks ;  but 


amim 


lim; 

B." 

d  prose,  iih»t  thd 
it  magnitude ;  at 
lat  "  its  eminent 
ban  can  whisper 
rho  are  to  be  de- 
potential  flatterj, 

luUty  of ." 

3t;  but  I  assure 

.    It  is  recorded 

to  it,  in  August, 

that  he 


ISonference. 
two  years  have 
Tubtful  whether  I 
uns  a  itquest  for 
of  the  Methodist 
h  a  relation,  con- 
any  of  the  rights 
pprobation  I  have 
9nt  tiiem  the  cer- 
9  quarterly  meet- 
ontreal ;  and  thii 
of  the  same  body 
I,  it  separates  me 
the  church ;  that 
L  difficulty  arise  m 
lerant  ranks ;  but 


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198 


It  secures  me  till  then,  or  through  life,  the  office  of  an 
ordamed  minister  of  tiie  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
Amenca;  I  mean  so  long  as  my  character  is  becoming  a 
mmiater  of  the  gospel.  I  shaU  then  have  the  privilege  of 
contmmng  my  tour  without  embarrassment.* 

We  find  that  upwards  of  a  hundred  sinners  have  been 
converted  to  God  smce  the  revival  began.  The  «  signs  of 
the  times  »  are  glorious  m  Cork.  I  am  quite  uncertam  as 
to  the  period  of  my  departure  ;  we  want  several  hundred 
Burners  to  be  converted  first. 

•  Mn  Oanghey.  nqnest  for  a  loottion  wu  ohenAUIr  grmnto^,  ud  a  o«tt 
ficjtMh«i  BUhop  H«idtag,  luring  th.  di^  or  Joir  »,  iS^dSV  illSi 


17 


^ 


-wMitiMili 


■i 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

EXPERIENCES  AND  INCIDENTS    IN  CORK  AND   BANDOS. 

This  chapter  is  a  medley.  It  treats  of  a  great  variety 
of  topics.  The  two  cases  of  restitution  it  records  are  re- 
markable illustrations  of  Mr.  Caughey's  power  of  movbg  the 
conscience.  Perhaps  in  no  one  feature  is  his  power  so 
marked  as  in  this.  No  mipardoned  sinner  can  avoid  a  sense  of 
guUt  under  his  appeals :  hence  the  many  examples  of  resti- 
tution and  of  complaints  from  sinners,  that  some  one  had  told 
him  their  histories. 

Bandon  yielded  less  fruit  to  Mr.  Caughey's  labors  than 
any  other  place  he  visited  while  in  Europe.  It  was  mdeed 
a  stronghold  of  the  Enemy,  which  would  not  yield  very  much 
to  his  "revival  artiUery."  Yet  even  there,  some  were  «  slain 
of  the  Lord."  Possibly  a  restraint  on  his  success  was  a« 
f.eedful  to  Mr.  Caughey  as  the  thorn  in  the  flesh  was  to 
Paul— it  confirmed  him  in  his  weU  cultured  principle  of 
the  necessity  of  divine  aid  to  ministerial  success. 

The  opening  paragraphs  are  extracted  from  a  letter  to  his 
sister  in  America,  and  contain  an  account  of  his  closine 
labors  in  Cork,  and  of  the  incident  which  determmed  him  to 
visit  Bandon. 

My  work  is  nearly  finished  in  Cork.  It  gives  me  great 
satisfaction  to  find  God's  dear  people  so  generally  convinced 

194 


CORK  AND  BANDON. 


195 


ND  BANDON. 

1  great  variety 
records  are  re- 
'  of  moving  the 
hia  power  so 
-void  a  sense  of 
mples  of  resti- 
le  one  had  told 

's  labors  than 
It  ytaa  indeed 
eld  very  much 
e  were  "  slain 
iccess  was  as 
'  flesh  was  to 
I  principle  of 

38. 

a  letter  to  his 
•f  his  closing 
mined  him  to 


ives  me  great 
Hy  convinced 

94 


that  this  is  a  real  revival  of  religion,     I  should  have  left  two 
or  three  weeks  since,  but  their  entreaties  to  remain  a  little 
longer  have  been  overpowering.      Awakened  sinners,  too, 
have  taken  the  alarm,  and  the  general  cry  haa  been,  "  Surely 
he  will  not  leave  us  when  ho  finds  himself  encompassed  by 
•such  a  crowd  of  penitent  souls."     I  cannot  express  the  sen- 
sations which  have  swept  over  my  soul  in  beholding  the  large 
communion  filled  every  night  with  seekers  of  salvation. 
Their  tears  and  sobs,  and  subdued  cries  for  mercy,  have 
been  sometimes  profoundly  awful.      You  will,  no  doubt,  be 
anxious  to  know  the  nuftiber  of  these  trophies  of  Divme 
Love.     I  cannot  state  precisely  the  number  of  persons  con- 
verted to  God.    V/e  had  a  meeting  for  this  purpose  three 
weeks  ago,  and  nearly  two  hundred  of  them  present ;  there 
were  many  others,  but  they  were  unable  to  attend  that  par- 
ticular meeting,  and  we  have  not  had  a  similar  one  smce. 
The  work  is  still  advancing  with  increasing  power.     A  short 
account  of  the  above  select  meeting  may  be  i  ateresting  to  you. 
,.  We  had  those  who  have  been  lately  bom  of  the  Spirit 
seated  by  themselves  in  the  centre  seats  of  the  chapel. 
After  a  solemn  and  pointed  address,  in  which  their  duties, 
responsibilities,  and  dangers,  were  faithfully  urged  upon  their 
attention,  they  were  called  forward  to  the  communion  rails. 
Several  important  questions  were  then  proposed  to  them ; 
their  names,  places  of  residence,  and  the  leader  of  their 
choice,  were  carefully  taken.    They  then  knelt  down,  and- 
were  commended  m  prayer  to  the  guidance  and  protection 
of  the  Almighty.     The  congregation,  adimtted  by  ticket, 
then  arose,  while  the  young  converts  remained  kneelbg, 
tod  we  sang, — 

"0  happy  day  that  fixed  my  choice 

On  thoe,  my  Saviuur  and  my  God  1 
Well  may  this  glowing  heart  rejoice, 

And  tell  ita  raptures  all  abroad." 


MNMMM 


warn 


196 


EXPERIENCES   AND   INCIDENTS 


While  the  last  two  lines  wore  being  sung  thoy  retired  to 
their  seats,  and  another  company  came  foi-ward,  and  were 
prayed  for,  and  dismissed  in  the  same  way,  until  all  had 
thus  presented  themselves  at  the  altar  of  God. 

The  service  was  most  impressive.  Many  tears  were  shed 
by  the  members  of  the  society,  who  were  seated  in  the  gallery, 
but  especially  by  the  young  converts.  Such  a  scene  of  en- 
tire consecration  of  body,  soul,  and  spirit,  to  the  service  of 
God,  with  such  an  influence  from  heaven,  many  of  the  oldest 
saints  say  they  never  had  witnessed  before.  Assist  me,  my 
dear  sister,  in  praising  God  for  Ms  abounding  goodness, 
"Which  always  causeth  me  the  triumph  in  Christ,  and  maketh 
manifest  the  savor  of  his  love,"  by  your  unworthy  brother, 
"  in  every  place." 

I  have  been  contemplating  a  viat  to  England  for  several 
weeks,  and  have  had  many  very  pressing  invitations  from 
the  Rev.  William  Lord,  formerly  a  Wesleyan  Missionary  in 
Canada;  and  were  it  not  for  the  following  circumstance  I 
would  sail  immediately  for  that  country :  — 

Some  weeks  since  I  wrote  to  Mr.  Lord,  in  Hull,  stating 
that  I  was  nearly  ready  to  leave  Ireland,  requesting  the 
route  to  Hull,  and  where  I  should  find  a  home  on  my  arrival. 
When  my  letter  reached  Hull,  Mr.  Lord  had  gone  to  the 
Conference  in  London.  Mrs.  Lord  forwarded  my  letter  to 
him,  and  he  wrote  to  a  brotiier  in  Hull,  respecting  my  in- 
tentions, requesting  lum  to  write  to  me  in  Cork.  He  tiien 
folded  my  letter  inside  the  one  he  had  written  to  the  friend, 
and  directed  the  entire  to  me  at  Cork.  It  arrived,  and  to 
my  surprise  I  found  my  own  letter  returned.  I  saw  at  once 
itwas  a  mistake,  and  concluded  that  Providence  desired  to 
retain  me  in  Ireland  for  a  longer  time. 

Since  then  I  have  engaged  to  visit  Bandon,  a  pleasan 


»«j«..ii>niiiiin>iiiii|«<liim«OWii«i)i  I'  I'll 


I, 


oy  retired  to 
rd,  and  vrero 
until  all  bad 

u:3  iirere  shed 
in  the  gallery, 
%  scene  of  en- 
the  ser^ce  of 
J  of  the  oldest 
f^ist  me,  my 
ing  goodness, 
it,  and  maketh 
orthy  brother, 

nd  for  several 

vitations  from 

Missionary  in 

lircumstance  I 

I  Hull,  stating 
requesting  the 
on  my  arrival. 
1  gone  to  the 
d  my  letter  to 
pecting  my  in- 
rk.      He  then 

to  the  friend, 
arrived,  and  to 

I  saw  at  once 
noe  desired  to 

Ion,  a  pleaaan 


^ 


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197 


town  a  few  miles  from  this  city.    I  shall  leave  for  that  place 
on  Saturday,  the  30th  instant,  if  Qod  permit. 

We  continue  this  chapter  with  extracts  from  another  letter 
addressed  to  an  American  friend,  from  Bandon.  It  refers 
to  his  Temperance  labors  while  yet  in  Cork,  and  to  his  open- 
ing revival  movements  in  Bandon.    He  says :  — 

On  Saturday,  30th  July,  I  left  Cork  for  Bandon.  Before 
I  bade  adieu  to  Cork,  I  felt  it  my  duty  to  deliver  a  few  lec- 
tures on  Temperance.  Some  battled  hard  for  the  wine 
bottle,  but  nobly  surrendered  to  the  convincing  arguments 
of  tee-totalism.  A  society  was  formed,  denominated,  "  The 
Cork  Young  Men's  Total  Abstmence  Society,"  that  is,  "  total 
abstmence*'  from  all  intoxicating  drinks.  The  meetings  were 
animated,  and  several  of  the  brethren  advocated  the  cause 
most  eloquently.  The  young  society  was  in  a  very  flourish- 
ing condition  when  I  left,  and  those  who  had  joined  it  well 
satisfied  with  the  step  they  had  taken. 

This  cause,  like  every  other  benevolent  institution  of  the 
day,  requires  to  be  kept  in  motion  by  a  stirring  and  vigorous 
advocacy.  What  would  become  of  Missionary,  Bible,  Tract, 
and  other  kindred  Societies,  without  public  meetings,  and 
the  powerful  and  arousing  speeches  delivered  on  such  oc- 
casions ?  What  would  become  of  the  church  and  the  Christ- 
ian world,  notwithstanding  the  hold  which  the  gospel  and  the 
Bible  have  upon  the  consciences  of  the  population,  if  gospel 
sermons  were  as  "  few  and  far  between"  as  are  addresses  on 
total  abstmence  ?  If  sin  and  its  servants  would,  in  such  a 
case,  blight  or  root  out  the  cause  of  truth  and  true  religion 
from  the  church  and  from  the  world,  the  same  results,  under 
like  circumstances,  will  unquestionably  attend  the  cause  of 
temperance  on  total  abstinence  principles ;  alcohol,  with  its 
grogshops  and  votaries,  would  soon  undo  all  that  has  been 
IV 


iftt^fmtm 


Itllltm 


•        -^ 


i^ 


108 


BXPGRIRXCKS  AND  INCIDENTS 


done  to  clcanso  our  globe  from  the  sin  of  drunkenness.    The 
Temperance  Society  will  prosper  in  Cork,  if  its  friends  will 
not  allow  it  to  sleep  ;  but,  if  tbcy  do,  it  will  soon  come  t* 
an  end,  and  they  will  have  none  to  blamo  for  it  but  them 
selves. 

I  havo  written  to  them  since  I  came  to  Bandon,  offering 
them  this  motto,  Action!  Action!!  Action!!!    Not  that  I 
would  advise  any  of  them  to  make  it  a  hobby  in  preaching, 
in  prayer  meetings,  in  class  meetings,  or  in  love-feasts,  as 
this  would  only  tend  to  prejudice  and  disgust  those  who  are 
not  yet  convinced ;  but  to  plan  their  public  meetings  so  as 
not  to  give  drunkards  and  temperate  drinkers,  time  to  check 
their  uneasiness  or  fortify  themselves  before  another  discharge 
of  temperance  truth  is  poured  into  their  entrenchments. 
Let  the  friends  not  be  afraid  of  a  little  money ;  let  them 
call  forward  the  best  speakers  of  the  day :  whatever  talent 
God  has  onUsted  against  alcoholic  drinks,  let  them  wield 
agjunst  the  hydrarheaded  monster,  and  punch  and  wine, 
and  ale  and  porter  drinking  will  become  quite  as  unfashion: 
able  in  respectable  families  in  Cork,  as  in  America.    You 
know  the  battle  we  had  to  fight  in  America,  and  the  results ; 
that  upon  the  tables  and  side-boards  of  thousands  of  families, 
those  drinks  were  not  to  be  seen ;  the  effects  upon  tiie  rising 
generation,  as  well  as  upon  the  mora'    \nd  religious  move- 
ments of  the  ndult  population,  eteruit/  nlone  will  reveal 
We  can  never  know  the  final  resul^'j  m  tkus,  .  reat  as  thej 
are  acknowledged  to  be. 

A  few  days  before  I  left  Cork,  Father  Mathew  honored 
me  with  a  visit.  We  had  a  very  agreeable  conversation  for 
three  quar'  '^  of  an  hour  on  temperance.  He  seems  an  ex- 
cellent ma  full  of  benevolence  and  good  will  to  all  classes 
of  his  fellow-men ;  and  detenmned,  while  he  lives,  to  prose- 
cute with  nis  characteristic  ardor,  the  cause  of  temperance, 


t 


m 


.^^MlU.^ — .- .»MA&A<c-iii.    -«^  laii  jiMii-aMii 


t 


IN   CORK   AND   BANOON. 


199 


kennesg.    Th« 

its  friends  will 

Boon  coinc  to 

r  it  but  them 

indon,  offering 
'/  Not  that  I 
r  in  preaching, 
love-fea8t8,  as 
those  ■who  are 
meetings  so  as 
,  time  to  check 
other  discharge 
Bntrenchments. 
ley;  let  them 
«rhatever  talent 
let  them  wield 
ach  and  wine, 
e  as  unfashion- 
America.  You 
md  the  results ; 
ndsof  families, 
upon  the  rising 
religious  move- 
no  will  reveal 
i,  ^p'eat  as  thtj 

lathew  honored 
sonversaiion  foi 
le  seems  an  ex- 
ill  to  all  classes 
I  lives,  to  prose- 
of  temperance, 


^ 


fo:  t^o  promotion  of  which,  it  would  appear,  God  has  raised 
liiin  up. 

If  Mr.  Mathow  can  only  succcod  in  steering  his  tempe- 
rance ship  clear  of  the  rocks  of  political  intrigue,  which 
seems  to  bo  the  fixed  purpose  of  his  heart,  the  elevating  and 
glorious  results  in  the  future  history  of  Ireland,  can  no  more 
be  doubted,  than  the  beneficial  influence  upon  the  millions  of 
tee-totallers  already  enrolled  beneath  his  temperance  banners. 
There  is  not,  I  presume,  a  Protestant  in  Ireland,  that  has  not 
been  forced  into  the  acknowledgment  of  a  change,  not,  of 
course,  in  the  Roman  Catholic  religion,  but  m  the  moral 
habits  of  the  people  in  reference  to  intoxicating  drinks  and 
drunkenness.  The  fruits  of  the  reformation,  sobriety  and 
elevation  of  moral  character,  are  such  as  cannot  be  denied, 
their  enemies  themselves  being  witnesses. 

I  opened  my  commission  here  on  Sabbath,  81st  of  July, 
in  the  use  of  that  text,  Heb.  vii.  25 ;  since  then,  have  been 
preaching  four  nights  m  the  week,  and  twice  on  the  Sabbath. 
A  few  have  been  converted  to  God.  The  influence  ujwa 
the  Wesleyan  church,  is  very  gracious  indeed,  but  the  in- 
habitants generally  seem  as  yet  unmoved.  The  good  citizens, 
as  far  as  we  have  become  acquainted,  treat  me  with  great 
civility,  but  on  the  subject  of  religion,  the  general  state  of  the 
publio  ound  appears  to  b«,  "I  pray  thee  have  me  excused !" 

The  congregations  are  tolerable,  but  our  doings  or  sayings, 
excite  but  very  little  interest  beyond  the  families  of  Method- 
ism ;  why,  I  cannot  tell.  Popularity  or  influence  over  a 
sonununity,  is,  especially  when  a  good  man  is  concerned,  tho 
gift  of  God  ;  but  the  Lord  does  not  seem  to  deliver  them 
into  L.y  hand,  and,  I  greatly  fear,  I  stepped  oat  of  the  order 
of  God  in  coming  here  at  all.  Yesterday,  I  was  much  cast 
down  and  sorely  bufieted  by  the  enemy.  I  have  eizperie9««d 
nothing  like  it  since  I  left  Dublin. 


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A  few  days  ago  I,  received  the  following  letter:  — 

■*My  very  dear  and  worthy  Friend, 

I  have  sent  to  London,  lately,  £400.,  in  half  notes,  the 
first  halves  directed  to  the  ChanceUor  of  the  Exchequer,  and 
the  corresponding  ones  to  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  (conceal- 
ing my  name,)  with  the  request  that  the  receipt  might  be 
a<jknowledged  in  the  London  Times  newspaper,  and  a  copy 
of  the  said  pap.^r  to  be  forwarded  to  the  Rev.  James 
Caughey,  Methodist  minister,  Bandon ;  as  I  mentioned,  that 
it  was  through  the  instrumentalUty  of  your  preaching,  that 
the  money  was  restored.     I  would  bo  glad  to  know,  when 
you  receive  the  paper,  and  wUl  be  thankful  that  you  will  keep 
it  for  me.    1  constantly  remember  you  when  on  my  knees, 
and  the  prayer  I  offer  up  is,  that  the  Almighty  may  keep 

you  m  the  same  humble  state  that  you  were  in  while  in , 

and  that  many  more  souls  may  be  given  for  your  hire.  Oh ! 
pray  for  me.  I  remain,  dear  Sir,  your  most  affectionate 
brother  in  Jesus  Christ,  „ 

The  paper  referred  to  now  lies  before  me,  with  the  ac- 
knowledgment therein,  the  Chancellor's  name  on  the  wrapper. 
I  am  about  to  write  to  the  individual.  When  m  Cork,  a 
person  was  convinced  of  the  necessity  of  restoration,  of  a  sum 
much  less  than  the  above,  in  consequence  of  having  cheated 
the  revenue,  fifteen  years  ago  ;  I  assisted  the  poor  fellow  by 
obtaining  the  advice  of  a  revenue  officer,  and  penned  for  him 
a  letter  to  the  Chancellor,  signed  »  conscience  money,"  which 

he  sent  by  post.  .-  ,  ^    , 

While  upon  this  subject,  you  will  be  gratified  to  learn 
another  case  of  restitution,  and  it  may,  perhaps,  serve  to  ex- 
plain the  secret  wbr  •  •  •  and  •  '  •  £U5tin  such  a  singular 
manner.    While  in  •  •  *  ,  and  during  the  revival,  a  person 


I 


..-&. 


tter:  — 

lalf  notes,  the 
xchequer,  and 
;ton,  (conceal- 
ceipt  might  be 
it,  and  a  copy 

Rev.  James 
lentioned,  that 
^reaching,  that 
bo  know,  when 
t  you  will  keep 

on  my  knees, 
ghty  may  keep 

I  while  in , 

)ur  hire.     Oh ! 
}st  affectionate 


le,  with  the  ae- 
on the  wrapper, 
hen  in  Cork,  a 
vution,  of  a  sum 
having  cheated 
e  poor  fellow  by 
[  penned  for  him 
3  money,"  which 

ratified  to  learn 
ips,  serve  to  ex- 
i  such  a  singular 
revival,  a  person 


i 


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IN  CORK   AND   BANDON. 


fOl 


who  resided  in  *  *  *  street  experienced  a  clear  sense  of  the 
pardoning  love  of  God,  and  joined  the  Methodist  church. 
Her  husband  no  sooner  knew  of  it  than  he  began  to  persecute 
her ;  he  vowed  vengeance  against  her,  and  in  one  or  two 
instances  knocked  her  down  to  the  floor  with  his  fist.  She 
bore  it  with  the  patience  of  a  real  Christian.  Few  knew  her 
troubles,  but  she  stood  fast,  and  clung  to  God  and  his  people. 
A  short  sime  after  I  arrived  at  *  *  *,  I  was  surprised  in  meet- 
ing the  man  in  a  shop.  He  drew  iiie  aside  hastily,  and  begged 
I  would  not  call  him  by  the  name  he  had  at  *  *  *,  but  by 
•  •  •,  as  the  latter  was  his  real  name.  We  walked  out  together, 
and  he  expressed  himself  as  having  become  "  quite  a  new 
man."  "  But,"  I  inquired,  "  why  did  jon  conduct  yourself 
so  to  your  wife  in  *  *  *  ?  you  acted  as  if  the  devil  were  in 
you  ! "  The  substance  of  his  reply  was,  "  I  was  very  un- 
happy. But  I  should  remark,  first,  I  have  abandoned  the 
use  of  liquor  ;  and,  secondly,  God  has  compelled  me  to  be- 
come an  honest  man.  The  secret  of  my  opposition  to 
my  wife  was,  I  had  no  hopes  of  salvation  myself.  To  be 
short.  Sir,  I  formerly  resided  at  *  *  *  in  *  *  •;  I  ran  away 
from  my  creditors,  and  kept  several  thousands  in  my  posses- 
sion. I  changed  my  name  at  *  *  *  to  avoid  detection ;  but, 
Sir,  I  have  made  restitution,  and  I  have  obtained  great  peace 
of  nund.  My  soul  was  tormented ;  God  began  also  to  afflict 
my  body,  and  convinced  me,  that  it  was  on  account  of  my 
dishonesty.  My  disease  has  disappeared  with  my  mental 
distress,  and  I  am  now  a  happy  man." 

I  have  been  doubting  in  my  mind,  whether  you  will  be 
satisfied  with  me,  for  filling  up  my  letter  with  these  restitu- 
tion cases ;  still,  as  they  serve  to  illustrate  the  power  of  the 
gospel,  in  easting  out  bad  principles,  by  the  expulsive  force 
of  those  peculiarly  its  own  ;  I  hope  the  relation,  on  that  ao 
count,  may  not  be  uninterestmg. 


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My  sovil  is  frequently  assaaled  by  the  grand  adversary ; 
but  often,  when  the  enemy  comes  in  as  a  flood,  the  Spirit  of 
God  raises  up  a  standard  against  him.  In  general,  my 
l)eace  and  rest  in  God  are  soul  satisfying.  He  is  my  object 
and  aim.  If  I  have  any  happiness,  it  is  m  Him.  I  have 
much  to  humble  me,  but  «  covered  is  my  unrighteousness." 
The  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  has  washed  away  my  giult  and 
stains.  I  rest  upon  the  merits  of  the  atonement,  and  have 
the  victory ;  and  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  cleanseth  me  from 
all  sin.  0  what  a  happiness  is  tins !  The  revival  is  gomg 
on  very  slowly  here,  which  gives  the  enemy  much  advantage 
in  harassing  my  soul. 

The  following  paragraphs  form  a  sort  of  episode  in  tne 
narrative  ;  yet  as  they  show  the  workings  of  his  nund,  whUe 
in  Bandon,  their  insertion  is  not  deemed  inappropriate.  It 
seems  some  mimsterial  friend  in  America  had  written  to  Mr. 
Caughey  in  terms  of  adnuration  at  his  successes,  and  ahnost 
in  a  spirit  of  discontent  at  the  comparative  want  of  similar 
fruitfuhiess  m  his  own  ministry.  Tlus  reply  is  worthy  of  Mr. 
Caughey's  head  and  heart,  and  will  assuredly  profit  many  a 
minister  who  is  discouraged  from  kindred  causes :  it  com- 
mences with  certain  references  to  his  friend's  letter:  — 

Permit  me,  in  the  outset,  to  oppose  the  following  verse  to 
yours: — 

•      "  Thick  waters  show  no  images  of  things ; 

Friends  are  each  other's  mirrors,  and  should  be 
Clearer  than  crystal  or  the  mountein  springs, 
And  free  from  cloud,  design,  or  flattery." 

I  allow  all  you  say  on  "contraries  illustrating  contraries  ;" 
«  the  two  fields  of  grain,  one  thin,  shrunk,  and  shriveUed; 
the  other,  rich  and  luxuriant ;"  the  «  two  clouds,  presenting 
their  contraries  of  darkness  and  brightness,  gloom  mi 


j'SSfSKimtllBWC'  iw^ 


liK:i:^^..^ 


11 


id  adversary; 
I,  the  Spirit  of 
I  general,  my 
;e  is  my  object 
Him.  I  have 
ighteousness." 
f  my  guilt  and 
lent,  and  have 
anseth  me  from 
svival  is  going 
luch  advantage 

episode  in  tne 
bis  mind,  while 
ppropriate.  It 
written  to  Mr. 
ses,  and  almost 
irant  of  similar 
s  worthy  of  Mr. 
f  profit  many  a 
lauses :  it  com- 
letter :  — 

lowing  verse  to 


nld  be 
ings, 

ng  contraries ;" 
and  shrivelled ; 
)uds,  presenting 
3S8,  gloom  and 


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glory ;"  the  one  throwing  the  other  into  bolder  and  more 
striking  reUef,  and  mutually  serving  to  illustrate  each  other ;. 
these  are  happy  illustrations,  but  you  must  not  forget  the 
sentiment  of  a  poet :  — 

• 

'"Tis  distance  lends  enchantment  to  the  view, 
And  clothes  the  mountain  in  its  azure  hue." 

The  ruggedness  of  the  landscape  is  greatly  lessened  by  being 
only  seen  at  a  distance.     Great  allowance  should  be  made, 
when  the  position  occupied  by  the  person  who  is  scannmg 
those  fields  is  considered.     If  too  near,  one  may  be  seen  to 
great  disadvantage  ;  but  distance  may  make  the  only  differ- 
ence with  respect  to  the  other.    It  is  here  that  the  principle 
of  deception  often  works,  and  where  I  have  frequently 
detected  it,  in  my  estimate  respecting  both  myself  and 
others.     In  reference  to  those  clouds,  much  may  dejwnd 
upon  the  point  of  observation  ;  the  bright  one  may  have  dark 
shades,  and  the  dark  a  bright  side,  when  seen  from  a  differ- 
ent direction.    Will  you  aUow  the  application  ?    You  stand 
too  near  your  own  field ;  your  eye  is  fixed  upon  the  dark 
side  of  your  own  cloud ;  you  see  me  and  the  circumstances 
m  which  I  am  placed,  b  the  far  away  and  shadowy  distance. 
The  disadvantages  of  your  situation,  with  all  its  vexations, 
are,  indeed,  dull  and  sombre  certainties,  whUe  the  broad  out- 
lines of  mine  are  only  seen ;  distance  lends  its  graces  as  to 
the  landscape,  and  fancy,  ignorant  of  the  soft  aiusions,  fills 
it  up  with  a  thousand  romantic  charms.     Could  you  only 
approach  a  little  nearer,  and  acquaint  yourself  by  actual 
experience  with  the  ground  over  which  vision  has  been  expa- 
tiatbg,    "the    fairy  enchantment"   which  deludes    your 
miagination  would  soon  disappear  before  stem  and  rugged 
reality.     Do  not,  my  dear  Sir,  entertam  the  thought  for  & 
moment  that  my  path  is  a  smooth  one.    Your  « trials  "  And 


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mine  differ,  but  I  have  them  as  well  as  you ;  nor  do  I  cxp«ct 
it  to  be  otherwise,  till  my  soul  is  lodged  in  Abraham's  bosom. 
The  tears  I  have  shed,  and  the  agonies  and  sore  conflicts  I 
havo  passed  through,  m  fighting  with  the  opposing  powers  of 
hell,  are  known  only  to  my  heavenly  Father.  Under  open 
sky,  upon  the  cold  and  damp  ground,  or  upon  the  floor  of  my 
bedroom,  I  have  lain  in  exquisite  angmsh,  with  prayers  and 
Bupplicatioas,  strong  cryings  and  tears, — 

"  And  what  I  felt,  I  oft  shall  feel  again." 

He  that  wages  war  with  hell,  must  expect  to  suffer  hell's 
rage  ;  but  the  opposition  from  infernal  powers  is  varied 
according  to  our  temperament  and  circumstances.  When 
perusing  an  old  volume  the  other  day,  I  fell  in  with  one  of 
Luther's  letters  to  his  friend  Melancthon.  It  was  written  m 
1622,  and  at  a  time  when  all  hell  was  moved  against  these 
devoted  men ;  when  the  rage  of  the  papists,  and  threats  of 
those  high  in  power,  knew  no  bounds ;  and  when  their  fury 
menaced  every  moment,  and  seemed  about  to  come  down 
upon  them  like  a  tohiado.  Melancthon  gave  himself  up  to 
grief,  sighs,  and  tears.  At  this  crisis,  Luther  wrote  him  the 
following  letter :  — 

"  In  private  conflicts,  I  am  weak  and  you  are  strong ;  but 
in  public  conflicts,  you  are  found  weak,  and  I  am  stronger, 
because  I  am  assured  that  our  cause  is  just.  If  we  fall, 
Christ,  the  Lord  and  Ruler  of  tho  world,  falleth  with  us ;  and 
suppose  he  fall :  Mallem  mere  mm  Chritto,  quam  regnare 
cum  Ccetare!  ♦  I  had  rather  fall  with  Christ,  than  reign 
with  Caesar.'  I  extremely  dislike  your  excessive  cares,  with 
which  you  say  you  are  almost  consumed.  That  these  reign 
so  much  in  your  heart,  is  not  so  much  from  the  greatness  of 
the  danger,  as  from  the  greatness  of  your  incredulity.    If 


ledl^ 


Ta^HmetHtm 


M*MM 


— L 


;  nor  do  I  exp«5Ct 
Lbraham's  bosom. 
I  sore  conflicts  I 
•posing  powers  of 
sr.  Under  open 
n  the  floor  of  my 
with  prayers  and 


ct  to  suffer  hell's 
powers  is  varied 
istances.  ^Vhen 
fell  in  with  one  of 
It  was  written  in 
red  against  these 
its,  and  threats  of 
when  their  fury 
lit  to  come  down 
ive  himself  up  to 
her  wrote  hun  the 


>u  are  strong ;  but 
nd  I  am  stronger, 
just.  If  we  fall, 
dleth  with  us ;  and 
ito,  qttam  regnare 
Dhrist,  than  reign 
cessive  cares,  with 
That  these  reign 
m  the  greatness  of 
ir  incredulity.    If 


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the  cause  be  bad,  let  us  give  it  up,  and  flee  back ;  if  it  be 
good,  why  do  we  make  God  a  liar,  who  hath  given  us  so 
great  promises?  saying,  <<:a3t  thy  care  upon  the  Lord; 
be  of  good  comfort,  I  have  overcome  the  world.'  A  man 
would  fetch  such  sentences  as  I  have  quoted,  upon  his  knoes, 
from  Rome  to  Jerusalem.  If  Christ  be  the  conqueror  of  the 
TTorld,  why  should  we  fear  it,  as  if  it  could  overcome  us  ? 
Be  courageous  and  cheerful,  solicitous  for  nothing ;  tiie  liord 
is  at  hand  to  help  us." 

Can  you  make  the  application,  and  obey  the  injunction  of 
the  apostle':  «  Whom  resist,  steadfast  m  the  feith,  knowing 
that  the  same  afflictions,"  either  inward  or  outward,  "  are 
accomplished  in  your  brethren  that  are  in  the  world."  That 
was  a  choice  saying  of  one  now  with  God.  «  A  Christian  is 
never  without  an  enemy  to  persecute  him,  inwardly  or  out- 
wardly ;  even  this  is  a  temptation  of  the  devil,  to  think  that 
we  are  at  any  time  free  from  temptation."  The  things  you 
speak  of  are  annoying;  you  should  rather  wonder  that  you 
have  not  a  heavier  tax  to  pay.  Patience,  prudence,  and 
perseverance, are  the  graces  you  are  now  called  to  exercise; 
and  I  am  persuaded,  that  an  mcrease  of  the  love  of  God  m 
your  heart,  will  materially  assist  you  in  your  exercises. 

I  have  read  somewhere,  the  saying  of  a  good  man,  that 
calumny  and  detraction  are  like  sparks ;  if  you  do  not  blow 
them,  they  will  go  out  of  themselves.  A  jx)et  has  well 
said:  — 

"  There  b  a  Inat  in  man,  no  chann  can  tome, 
Of  loudly  pnblishiog  his  neighbor's  ihame ; 
On  eagles'  wings  immortal  scandals  fly, 
WhUe  virtuous  actions  are  but  bom  to  die  1" 

Some  years  ago,  I  was  amused  with  the  sentiment  of  • 
witty  fellow :  "A  Lie  will  travel  from  Maine  to  Georgia, 
while  Truth  is  puttmg  on  his  boots ;  in  that  case,"  he  added, 
Xe 


J-- 


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EXPERIENCES   AND   INCIDENTS 


« truth  Bboold  not  stop  to  put  on  his  boots ;  the  difficulty  he» 
in  aUowing  the  lie  to  run  so  far  ahead ;  let  them  start  abreast, 
and  truth  against  the  field.    It  Aay  be  distanced  at  the^first 
heat,  but  in  the  long  run,  it  is  sure  to  rT.^tvT'nvntK 
The  above  is  clever,  but  I  am  mchned  to  thmk  Truth 
sometimes  draws  on  his  boots  too  soon,  and  in  his  haste  and 
splutter,  exposes  himself  to  suspcion.    I  like  the  saymg  ^ 
akoAer  strong  nundedman  better:  «  Falsehood  flies  as  svnft 
as  the  ^d,  and  truth  creeps  behind  at  a  snail  s  pwe ;  but 
falsehood  makes  so  many  twistings  and  turmngs,  that  truth, 
keeping  steady  on,  and  looking  neither  to  the  nght  nor  to 
Ihe  left,  overtakes  it  before  long  t"     May  your  experience 
be  that  of  the  old  proverb :  Bic  murm  dfuneus,  etc. :     Let 
aufl  be  thy  brazen  wall  of  defence,  to  be  conscious  of  no 
crime,  and  to  turn  pale  at  no  ^^'^^^^^ '     ^^^.f  °',^^ 
the  piulosopher,  «I  will  live  so  that  nobody  wdl  beheve 

^'^e  other  cases,  however,  that  you  mention,  constitute  the 
severest,-"  deceptive  fnendsHp;"  and  the  danger  is,  lest 
yo^  U  trials  should  lead  you  to  indulge  in  coldness  and 
suspicion  towards  your  real  fnends. 

"  But  here  again,  the  danger  liM, 
Lest,  having  n^sappUed  our  eyee, 
And  taken  trash  for  trea»nre, 
We  should  unwarily  coolude, 
FilandsUp,  a  false  ideal  good, 
A  mere  Utopian  pleasure." 

Beware  of  tins  extreme!  Beware  of  misanthropy !  It  is  a 
!r^appy  feeling;  the  smallest  degree  of  ^  soius  ttie 
xnind,  and  imfits  it  for  the  pleasures  of  social  hfe,  and  pre- 
^rus  to  take  offence  at  the  xnost  t^goccur^c^ 
I^d  rather  be  deceived  a  thousand  times  m  my  faen^ 
ilp.,  than  have  the  sensations  of  a  misai^thrope.    Th«i - 


^ 


IV  •"♦»*»--"'    .«**»« 


MMM4«iiiiiiwi<iii>iV^i'«*''"' 


*<ir 


^^ 


he  difficulty  U«i 
im  start  abreast, 
ttced  at  the  firat 
I  the  prize." 
to  think  Tnith 
in  his  haste  and 
ke  the  saying  of 
oodles  as  swift 
tail's  pace;  but 
ungs,  that  truth, 
the  right  nor  to 

your  experience 
neuSf  etc. :  "  Let 

conscious  of  no 

Say  also,  iirith 

body  will  believe 

on,  constitute  the 
he  danger  is,  lest 
I  in  coldness  and 


Biiihropy !  It  is  a 
ree  of  it  sours  the 
xjial  life,  and  pre- 
ifling  occurrences. 
limeB  in  my  Mend* 
ioffthrope.    Thia  ii 


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the  on  y  part  of  your  severe  troubles,  with  which  I  cannot 
sympathue  by  experience,  as  I  do  not  recoUect  that  I  have 
ever  yet  been  deceived,  where  I  have  reposed  confidence  in 
^e  bosom  of  fnendship.  For  this  I  feel  truly  thanHul  ^ 
God.    AUow  me  however,  to  remind  you,  that  there  are  yet 

S7 'ri  r^  "P""  ^'"^  "^*'  '^^  ^  ^»^«  ^0  doubt  vou 
wiU  yet  find  many  more.    As  one  has  said,  on  a  similar 

up  much  rubb«h ;»  so  I  hope,  if  doomed  to  turn  over  many 
more  heaps  of  rubbish,  you  wiU  go  on  dobg  so,  in  full  ex- 
pectation of  meeting  with  «  good  men  and  true  »  to  fill  up 
the  spaces  m  your  broken  ranks.  ^ 

.JT  T^^'^l  f^  P"^^'"'  *^»*  ^°«i«  a^o  cheap  things, 
and  "professional  friendship"  does  not  cost  much,  wj 
maj  say  of  ttus  aa  did  tixe  Italian  poet,  who  Uved  in  a  very 

eW  r;  *°^J?''  °"  ^^«  «*^«^'  ^'^y  »^«  ^to  had  so 
eloquently  descnbed  magnificent  pala<3es,  should  himself  Hve 
ma  house  so  mail  and  shabby.  He  repUed,  «  Words  are 
put  together  cheaper  than  stones."  Although  your  case  i! 
^ewhat  d^similar,  it  remmds  me  of  the  se^ritfLTati^ 
poet  agamst  one  Candidus,  the  fruit  of  whose  Mendship,  it 
wodd  appear,  only  grew  upon  his  tongue.  The  tmnsIaL 
of  one  of  his  verses  runs  thus:  "Thou  sayest,  my  friend 
Candid^,  that  aU  thmg.  are  common  among  ttends;  but  U 

%  werith  and  goods,  thou  makest  no  friend  thou  hast  a  doit 

prodigal  of  thy  language,  and  wearest  out  that  proverb 
^nTfS;d:^r----.  "All  things  are  err 

St  John  touches  this  forcibly:  "My  little  children,  V,t 
OB^not  love  m  word,  neither  in  tongue,  but  in  deed,  mf  • 


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Pennit  me,  my  dear  friend,  to  direct  your  sorrowful  mind 
to  those  passages  of  Scripture,  with  which  you  are  familiar : 
"  Ood  is  a  sun  and  a  shield ;"  "  God  is  light,  and  in  him  is 
no  darkness  at  all;"  and  agam,  "With  him  there  is  no 
variableness,  neither  shadow  of  turning."  I  do  not  bring 
these  beautiful  declarations  before  you,  merely  to  put  you  m 
remembrance  of  God's  unchangeable  friendship  to  those  who 
lore  and  obey ;  but  to  urge  the  necessity  of  living  in  close 
and  intimate  union  with  Him,  who  "is  light,"  so  that  neithei 
devils  nor  men  may  cast  your  soul  into  the  shade. 

Once  I  received  a  very  important  lesson,  from  a  very 
simple  incident,  *which  I  trust  will  be  a  blessing  to  me  so 
long  as  I  live.  One  evening,  several  years  ago,  I  wen^ 
aboard  a  steamer,  at  the  city  of  Albany,  and  sailed  for  New 
York.  After  admiring  the  beautiful  scenery  of  the  Hudson* 
till  night  obscured  every  object  on  the  shores  from  my  view* 
I  retired  to  the  gentlemen's  cabin  and  sat  down  to  read, 
taking  a  seat  some  distance  from  the  lamp.  It  was  not  long 
before  dark  shadows,  to  my  great  annoyance,  flitted  again 
and  again  over  my  book,  la  consequence  of  careless  servantii 
and  unthinking  passengers  passing  and  repassmg  between  me 
and  the  light.  I  bore  it  for  some  time  with  great  patience, 
closing  my  eyes  till  the  shadows  flitted  over  the  page,  phi- 
losophizing on  the  benefit  of  tranquility  in  all  the  changing 
scenes  of  life.  Ea<:h  person  being  intent  upon  Us  own 
business  and  pleasure,  the  stucUous  stranger  never  entered 
tiieir  thoughts.  At  last  the  inconvenience  became  too  great 
for  even  philosophy  to  bear  patiently,  and  it  suggested  a 
remedy.  Observing  that  the  thoroughfare  lay  between  mo 
and  the  lamp,  I  concluded  to  occupy  it,  and  draw  so  close 
to  the  source  of  light,  as  to  prevent  any  one  from  coming 
between  me  and  it.  I  did  so,  and  here  my  troubles  ended ; 
the  sUr  was  as  great  as  ever,  but  the  voyagers  found  a  pas> 


II 


1 


Wti(wi<li>ij»|jiili]*,<fta.j* 


iHIri    i  i  r  1,^- 


lorrowful  mind 
1  are  familiar : 

and  in  him  ia 
n  there  is  no 

do  not  bring 
'  to  put  you  in 
p  to  those  who 
Hving  in  close 
90  that  neithei 
ide. 

,  from  a  very 
sing  to  me  so 
I  ago,  I  vrerA 
jailed  for  New 
>f  the  Hudson* 
from  my  view* 
down  to  read, 
]t  was  not  long 
),  flitted  agtdn 
reless  servantu 
ag  between  m? 
;reat  patience, 
the  page,  phi- 
1  the  changing 
upon  Us  own 
never  entered 
same  too  great 
it  suggested  a 
i.y  between  mo 

draw  so  close 
)  from  coming 
roubles  ended ; 
B  found  a  paa- 


m^mim!^-" 


IN  nORK   AND   BANDON. 


209 


sage  behind  me,  and  « left  me  alone  in  my  gloiy."  I  was 
only  a  few  moments  m  this  advantageous  position,  before  I 
was  disturbed  by  another  class  of  agents,  not  less  stirring 
than  those  I  had  contrived  to  avoid,  and  which  equally  pro- 
hibited  me  from  reading.   A  poet  has  described  them  thus.— 

"  LttUed  in  the  oonntleu  chunbem  of  the  br»ln, 
Oar  thoughts  are  linked  by  many  a  hidden  chain, 
Awake  but  one,  and  lo !  what  myriad*  rise, 
E«!h  itunpe  iu  image  •■  the  other  fliea." 

I  recollected  how  often  since  God  converted  my  soul,  my 
peace  had  been  broken  or  destroyed,  by  a  great  variety  of 
agents,  many  of  them  as  unthinking  and  undesigning  as 
ttiese  passengers ;  and  why  ?  In  nine  instances  out  of  ten, 
my  soul  stood  at  such  a  distance  from  God,  as  to  leave  a 
thorougJifare  between  me  and  him,  which  was  perpetually 
occupied  by  these  intruders;  my  soul  being  thus  excluded 
from  the  beams  of  the  great  Source  of  light,  happbess,  and 
comfort,  I  have  been  dark,  cold,  and  unhappy. 

"Ah!"  I  thought,  "now  I  know  the  cause  of  aU  my 
troubles ;  and  the  method  of  redress  for  all  my  grievances 
18  revealed.    From  henceforth,  by  the  grace  of  God,  I  shaU 
endeavor  to  Uve  so  near  the  Lord,  that  no  creature  under 
heaven  shall  be  able  to  come  between  us.    Then  I  shaU 
walk  in  cheerful  light  under  the  sunshine  of  his  countenance, 
and  ShaU  read,  uninterruptedly,  'my  title  clear'  to  his  favor 
and  to  his  heaven.    Then  I  shall  cheerfully  bear  whatever 
may  come,  —  losses,  and  crosses,  sickness  or  health,  pros- 
perity or  adversiiy.    Friends  in  such  case  may  divert  or' 
prove  tnie,  may  be  spared  to  my  embraces,  or  wither  and 
die ;  and  though  tenderly  alive  to  the  whole,  yet  the  presence 
or  absence  of  these,  which  one  haa  somewhere  compared  to 
candle  light  in  the  presence  of  sunbeams,'  can  make  no 
material  difference  to  the  soul  upon  which  the  Sun  of  Right 


■mmamnHitmam^-i 


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EXPBKIEXCES  AKD  INCIDENTS 


eousness  hath  arisen,  with  healing  in  his  wings 
My  experience  will  be  continually  — 


Mai.  iv.  2. 


'  Tbe  eternal  sunshine  of  the  spotless  mind, 
Each  prayer  accepted,  and  toch  wish  resigned.' " 

With  respect  to  the  other  points  m  your  letter,  I  really 
find  it  difficult,  at  so  great  a  distance,  to  determine.  All 
ships  without  cargo  need  ballast,  some  more,  some  less ;  and 
it  matters  not  to  the  captiun  what  it  is,  so  that  it  le  not  too 
bulky,  and  the  vessel  is  kept  steady.  The  coarsest,  and 
most  worthless  material,  is  generally  thrown  in  for  ballast ; 
but  a  cargo,  if  there  be  a  sufficiency  of  it,  renders  this  pre- 
caution unnecessary.  Most  Christians  need  a  little  ballast, 
—  troubles  and  afflictions  of  various  kinds,  to  keep  them 
steady,  otherwise  they  would  capsize,  or  be  hard  to  manage ; 
some  require  more,  others  less ;  but  the  more  love  and  fmth, 
the  more  holiness  we  have,  the  less  ballast  we  shall  need  u> 
keep  us  steady  in  our  passage  to  heaven,  which  is  frequently 
boisterous: — 

"Throagh  tribulations  deep, 
The  way  to  glory  lies, 
That  stormy  course  I  keep, 
'Neath  these  tempestuous  sklei, 
By  winds  and  waves 
I  am  tossed  and  driven. 
Freighted  with  grace, 
And  bound  for  heaven  1" 

I  have  often  thought  the  reli^ous.  experience,  or,  if  you 
please,  "  temperament "  of  some  people,  is  not  unlike  a  clock ; 
one  or  two  dead  weights  are  necessary  to  keep  the  machinery 
going  with  regularity.  A  quaint  old  poet  I  was  reading  the 
other  day,  when  describing  the  state  of  his  soul  in  prayer, 
under  the  figure  of  a  rusty  clock,  makes  known  his  requests, 
but  never  mentions  the  weights  at  all.    But  hear  him :  — 


I     Mai.  17.  2. 


etter,  I  really 
termine.  AU 
ome  less ;  and 
t  it  te  not  too 
coarsest,  and 
in  for  ballast ; 
iders  this  pre- 
i  little  ballast) 
to  keep  them 
:d  to  manage ; 
love  and  faith, 
)  shall  need  to 
1  is  frequently 


ice,  or,  if  you 
inlike  a  clock ; 
the  machinery 
)s  reading  the 
3ul  in  prayer, 
I  his  requests, 
>ar  him:  — 


IN  CORK  AND  LANDON.  211 

*  My  tool  li  a  clock,  whoM  wheels  (for  want  of  nM 
And  winding  up,  bolng  subject  to  the  abuse 
Of  eathig  rust)  wants  vigor  to  fulfil 
Her  twelve  hours  task,  and  show  her  Maker's  akl]) 
But  idloly  sleeps  unmoved,  and  staadeth  still. 

Great  God,  it  is  thy  work,  and  therefore  good ; 

If  thou  be  pleased  to  cleanse  it  with  thy  blood, 

And  wind  it  up  with  thy  soul-moving  keys, 

Her  busy  wheels  shall  serve  thee  all  her  days| 

Her  hand  shall  point  thy  power,  her  hammer  strlka  thy  praise." 

But,  to  change  the  figure,  I  can  very  well  conceive  how  a 
threadbare  coat  may  have  a  happy  heart  beneath  it ;  or  how 
a  man  may  have  a  burden  upon  his  back,  and  sunshine  in 
his  soul.    Bemember  my  lesson  on  board  the  steamer.    The 
great  pomt  to  be  settled,  is,  "  Can  I  see  God  in  this  ?    Is 
this  providential?    Can  it  be  avoided  or  removed?     The 
question  is  not,  what  ought  I  to  have  done  ?  but,  what  is  my 
duty  now  ?    If  I  can  do  nothing  but  suffer,  let  me  do  this. 
If  God  alone  can  help  me,  then  I  must  be  still."   Are  these 
your  feelings  ?    Then  let  me  call  to  your  aid  the  sentiments 
of  a  suffering  servant  of  the  limg  God:  «  He  will  do  the 
work,  and  his  hand  will  be  seen  in  the  domg  of  it.    We  are 
obliged  to  wait  for  the  tide.    When  that  flows,  and  tiie  wind 
sets  in  fair,  let  us  hoist  sail.    When  the  tide  has  left  a  ship 
on  the  beach,  an  army  may  attempt  to  move  it  in  vain ;  but 
when  she  is  afloat  in  the  water,  a  small  force  moves  her. 
We  must  wait  the  opeiungs  of  Providence."    In  the  mean- 
time, you  may  retdize  the  truth  of  the  Chinese  maxim: 
"  Whatever  tempests  may  arise,  tranquility  is  a  port  always 
open  to  the  innocent  heart."   The  followmg  is  better :  "  Cast 
thy  burden  upon  the  Lord,  and  he  will  sustun  thee ;  he  will 
never  suffer  the  righteous  to  be  moved." 

Perhaps  another  lesson,  which  I  received  several  years  ago, 
may  be  useful  to  you  in  the  present  juncture  of  yovr  affiun. 


•■'"^'^it^vtimm^^ 


siWiMrii 


iw  IHK  i  am  iMiiWiiwwm 


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EXPKllIKNOES   AND  INCIDENTS 


I 


i  > 


My  Duiid  had  been  sorely  exercised  for  some  time,  reBpect- 
uig  temporal  afiuirs,  out  of  wliich  I  could  see  no  way  of 
deliverance,  feeling  unwilling  at  the  same  time  to  rest  tho 
matter  in  uncertainty.  That  scriptural  direction  was  forgot- 
ten :  "  He  that  bclieveth,  shall  not  make  haste."  One  day, 
as  I  was  standing  in  an  hotel,  in  the  city  of  Troy,  waiting 
tlio  arrival  of  tho  coach,  I  took  up  a  common  newspaper, 
when  my  eye  rested  upon  the  following  paragraph,  denomi- 
nated, *'  The  just  principles  of  wisdom,"  which  seemed  to 
have  been  written  expressly  for  me :  "  Distresses  tiiat  are 
removable,  remove ;  those  that  cannot  be  removed,  bear  with 
as  little  disquietude  as  possible.  In  every  situation  in  life 
there  are  some  comforts ;  find  them  out  and  ei\joy  them." 

May  you  not  also,  my  dear  Sir,  receive  some  benefit  front 
the  above  ?  Endeavor  to  do  so,  and  God  will  help  yon. 
Trust  in  the  Lord  with  all  your  heart,  and  w&t  patientiy  foi 
him,  and  he  shall  bring  it  to  pass.  And  while  you  are  doing 
BO,  you  may  adopt  the  language  of  a  very  old  poet :  — 

"  Fear  not  the  rocks,  or  world's  imperious  waves, 
Thou  climb'st  a  Rock,  my  soul,  a  Rock  that  taves  !** 

We  have  had,  hitherto,  a  very  hard  conflict  in  Bandon ; 
the  hardest  in  which  I  have  ever  been  engaged.  Last  Sab- 
bath, however,  was  a  glorious  day  to  many.  We  had  a  select 
meeting  for  the  young  converts  in  the  afternoon,  and  forty- 
four  persons  came  forward  and  testified,  that,  during  the  last 
four  weeks,  God,  for  Christ's  sake,  had  for^ven  their  sins. 
It  was  indeed  a  powerful  and  melting  time.  I  have  wit- 
nessed nothing  like  it  since  the  commencement  of  the  special 
services.  Many  of  the  old  members  were  bathed  in  tears, 
and  toward  the  close  of  the  service,  a  large  number  of  awak- 
ened sinnera  approached  the  commumon  rail,  and  knelt  to  be 
furayed  for.     Their  crie?  for  mercy  were  piercmg.     This 


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W  CORK   AND  BANDON. 


21a 


)  time,  rebpeot- 
leo  no  way  of 
me  to  rest  the 
ioQ  was  forgot- 
B."  One  day, 
'  Troy,  waitmg 
on  newspaper, 
graph,  denomi- 
dch  seemed  to 
esses  Aat  are 
)vod,  bear  with 
tuation  in  life 
lyoy  them." 
le  benefit  froiii 
will  help  yoa. 
it  patiently  foi 
I  you  are  doing 
I  poet:  — 

II, 

ave*!" 

;t  in  Bandon; 
;d.  Last  Sab- 
Ve  had  a  select 
)on,  and  forty- 
during  the  last 
^ven  their  sins. 
I  have  wit- 
t  of  the  special 
athed  in  tears, 
limber  of  awak- 
and  knelt  to  be 
liercing.     This 


aapf  y  hour  amply  repaid  me  for  all  my  tears,  and  groans, 
and  labors,  during  these  lost  nine  weeks.  The  Lord  saw 
that  I  needed  such  a  manifestation  of  his  power,  for  my  soul 
was  greatly  discouraged. 

The  remainder  of  this  chapter  is  from  a  letter  dated  Cork^ 
Oct.  28, 1842,  and  is  addressed  to  his  sbter  in  America. 
It  briefly  reviews  his  Bandon  labors,  and  describes  his  final 
labors  in  Cork  while  dettuned  there  a  few  days  prior  to  his 
departure  for  England: — 

This  morning  I  had  my  baggage  taken  aboard  a  steamer, 
but  just  as  we  were  about  to  sail  for  Liverpool,  an  accident 
occurred  to  the  machinery,  and  the  passengers  were  requested 
to  disembark. 

Before  leaving  the  vessel,  a  person  informed  me,  who  had 
the  means  of  knowing,  that  the  boilers  were  in  a  most 
wretched  and  dangerous  condition,  and  that  this  was  the 
last  trip  previous  to  a  refit  m  England. 

Had  the  accident  taken  place  when  out  at  sea,  even  if  an 
e.xplosion  had  been  avoided,  a  crippled  machmery  might  have 
let  us  drift  upon  a  lee  shore,  attended  with  the  most  fatal 
consequences  to  all  on  board.  With  a  thankful  heart,  I  put 
my  signature  to  that  beautiful  verse :  — 

"  Keeps  with  inoet  diatlngniithed  caie, 
The  man  who  on  thy  love  depend*  { 
Watchee  every  nnmbered  hair, 
And  all  bii  stept  attend!." 

A  party  of  the  Cork  friends  had  accompunied  me  to  the 
boat,  having  previously  exercised  all  their  powers  of  p;»r- 
suasion  to  induce  me  to  spend  the  Sabbath  with  them ;  bat 
being  fully  conscious,  that  my  work,  for  the  present,  was 
finished  in  Ireland,  I  could  not  consent ;  but  when  they  saw 
me  and  my  baggage  put  ashore,  they  acoosted  mc  with  a 


u 


p^^rtCr^air  ■ui(36ifflu:«.v?M7ftw.-  «?fAa*i»-i, 


'  ^NRMUiU  •fl^awftfHf^Miti.VI  Tt^li>4l^ 


■#>    Vdf/ 


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gloYnng  satisfaction  of  countenance:  ''Oh!  indeed,  then, 
God  will  not  let  you  leave  us !  It  is  plain,  your  work  is  ncl 
done  in  Cork,  and  he  has  sent  you  back  to  complete  it." 

My  mind  is  involved  in  great  anxiety,  aa  to  the  path  of 
duty.  A  steamer  sails  to-morrow  for  livcrpool,  and  another 
about  the  middle  of  next  week  for  Bristol,  but  there  is  no 
impression  upon  my  mind  that  I  ought  to  visit  B.;  Liver- 
pool is  constantly  before  me.i  although  I  have  no  official 
invitation  from  thence ;  to-morrow  also,  is  Saturday,  and 
should  I  sail,  that  would  leave  me  at  sea  on  the  Sabbath ; 
and  if  I  put  off  another  week,  it  is  more  than  probable  I 
must  sail  on  Saturday  also.  Well !  I  have  committed  the 
matter  to  God,  and  will  now  spend  a  few  minutes  in  ^ving 
you  a  sketch  of  my  proceedings  since  the  date  of  my  laat 
letter  to  *  *  *,  which  no  doubt  you  have  seen. 

The  revival  advanced  with  a  slowness  that  distressed  me 
duiing  the  remainder  of  my  stay  in  Bandon.  I  felt  as  if 
there  were  something  wrong  and  deeply  grievous  to  the 
Holy  Spirit  somewhere ;  perhaps  the  day  of  judgment  shall 
alone  reveal  it.  On  Sabbath,  the  16th  inst.,  twenty  addi- 
tional persons  came  forward  aa  witnesses  to  the  blessing  of 
justification  through  faith  in  the  merits  of  Christ. 

I  have  just  been  examining  my  notes  of  a  few  excursions 
made  while  in  Bandon,  but  they  are  so  lean,  it  is  doubtful 
-'hether  they  will  be  interesting  to  you.  A  few  weeks  since, 
in  company  with  a  small  party  of  our  friends,  I  rode  over  to 
Kinsale,  to  see  my  kind  friends,  the  Rev.  Bobinson  Scott 
and  wife,  whom  we  fo^md  well  and  happy  in  God. 

On  the  17th  inst.,  we  set  off  in  a  different  direction,  to  a 
place  called  Court  Mac  Sherry ;  on  our  way,  we  paid  a  visit 
to  the  ruins  of  the  old  abbey  of  Timaleague.  It  is  ap- 
proached from  Bandon,  along  the  banks  of  a  busy  littui 
terpentine  river,  named  "  the  Ari^deen ;"  ioat  is,  the  UttU 


i 


J^, 


TS 

h!  mdecd,  then, 
,  your  work  is  nc\ 
complete  it." 
as  to  the  path  of 
pool,  and  another 
,  but  there  is  no 

0  visit  B.;  Lirer^ 
'.  have  no  official 
is  Saturday,  and 
on  the  Sabbath; 

1  than  probable  I 
ve  conunittod  the 
ninutes  in  ^ving 
>  date  of  my  last 
een. 

hat  distressed  me 
on.  I  felt  as  if 
'  grievous  to  the 
Df  judgment  shall 
Dst.,  twenty  addi- 
to  the  blessing  of 
Christ. 

a  few  excursions 
an,  it  is  doubtful 
L  few  weeks  since, 
ds,  I  rode  over  to 
T.  Robinson  Scott 
n  God. 

mt  direction,  to  a 
ly,  we  paid  a  visit 
lague.     It  is  ap~ 

of  a  busy  littiu 
'  ioat  is,  the  UttU 


IN  CORK  AND  BANDON. 


215 


tilver  itream,  which,  before  it  reaches  the  abbey,  glides  near 
the  base  of  an  ancient  castle,  built  by  an  Irish  sept,  called 
O'Shagnassy,  and  soon  after  washes  the  walls  of  Timaleague. 

The  abbey  is  built  upon  an  arm  of  the  sea,  about  three 
miles  from  the  ocean.  The  foundations  have  been  laved  by 
the  tides  during  four  centuries,  and  yet  the  venerable  pile 
has  sustained  but  trifling  injury  from  that  cause.  The  con- 
vent church  is  large,  and,  like  the  rest  of  the  buildmgj, 
roofless.  The  choir  has  been  a  noble  wing  with  side  iisles, 
formed  by  arcades.  A  venerable  gothic  tower  stands  in  the 
centre,  seventy  feet  high,  but  so  damaged  by  time  and 
storms,  we  could  not  ascend  to  the  top.  The  convent  is 
filled  with  graves  and  tombstones,  and  upon  one  nde  of  the 
mam  entrance  we  observed  an  immense  heap  of  human 
bones,  laid  together  like  one  of  your  American  wood  piles, 
exposed  to  the  weather.  The  Roman  Catholics  in  this 
country  seem  to  have  a  strange  taste  for  such  humiliating 
spectacles. 

A  peasant  told  us  very  gravely  on  leaving  the  rums,  tiiat 
"  when  the  abbey  was  in  ito  glory,  large  ships  came  up  close 
to  its  walls;  and,  upon  a  certain  tune,  the  sailors  mocked  the 
monks,  and  one  of  them  prayed  that  God  would  put  a  stop 
to  their  coming  up  entirely ;  and  so  it  was,  for  the  channel 
was  immediately  filled  with  sand,  and  never  a  ship  came  up 
here  any  more  at  all." 

As  we  proceeded  down  the  shores  of  the  bay,  we  came  to 
Abbey  Mahon,  a  ruin  nearly  enveloped  in  ivy.  I  left  the 
carriage  and  spent  a  few  minutes  in  walking  through  its 
desolate  chambers.  Court  Mac  Sherry  is  a  neat  village» 
built  upon  a  natural  terrace,  with  a  pleasant  prospect  of  the 
bay  aad  opposite  shores.  We  entered  the  fields  at  the  op|»- 
site  side  of  the  viUage,  and  after  traversing  some  distance  » 
pleaaing  and  romantic  path,  overshadowed  with  trees,  sad- 


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EXPERIENCES  AND   INCIDENTS 


denly  tho  "  Old  Head  of  Kinsale  "  and  the  Atlantic  burst 
upon  our  view. 

I  preached  my  farewell  sermon  at  Bandon,  to  a  large  con- 
gregation, on  the  night  of  tho  16th  inst.,  and  next  evening, 
spent  a  few  hours  most  agreeably  with  a  number  of  the 
friends,  in  the  house  of  Mr.  Edwards. 

Saturday,  22d,  (Oct.  1842,)  I  left  Bandon  for  Cork, 
and  had  for  a  fellow  passenger  the  Dean  of  Cork,  a  very 
sensible  and  pious  man,  quite  the  gentleman  and  the  Chris- 
tian ;  we  had  a  most  profitable  conversation  on  the  things  of 
God.  He  had  heard  of  my  movements  in  Ireland,  and  when 
we  parted,  he  heartily  wished  me  success  in  my  Master's 
work.  And  now  once  more  in  Cork,  and  retracuig  the 
scenes  of  the  last  few  months,  sore  as  my  conflicts  were  in 
Bandon,  I  do  not  regret  my  visit.  A  new  circle  of  acquaint- 
ances has  been  formed,  which  shall,  doubtless,  heighten  my 
joys  m  heaven.  God  has  a  precious  people  in  Bandon  with 
whom  I  felt  great  union  of  spirit,  and  who  showed  me  much 
kindness.  In  the  families  of  Messrs.  Edwards,  Scott,  and 
Belcher,  I  was  most  hospitably  entertained  during  my  stay. 
Rev.  George  Vance,  whom  I  mentioned  in  one  of  my  Dublin 
letters,  is  now  stationed  in  that  circuit.  He  is  the  same 
devoted  soul,  and  treated  me  with  his  accustomed  kindness. 

Sabbath,  the  28d,  I  spent  in  Cork,  preached  twice,  aiid 
also  the  following  Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  and  Fri- 
day evenings,  and  sinners  were  converted  to  God  in  every 
service. 

I  am  now  entertained  in  the  mansion  of  Edward  Robinson, 
Esq.,  where  I  spent  a  few  weeks  last  July,  previous  to  my 
leavmg  for  Bandon.  With  him  and  his  excellent  wife  and 
fanuly,  I  have  formed  an  acquaintance  that  shall  last  for 
ever.  My  health,  I  have  reason  to  praise  God,  is  very 
good ;  and  tho  light  of  his  countenance  is  cheering  to  my 


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Bandon  for  Cork, 
Ban  of  Cork,  a  very 
man  and  the  Chris- 
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IN  CORK  AND  BANDON. 


217 


Boul.  How  dreary  would  be  my  path  but  for  this !  What- 
ever happiness  I  enjoy,  it  is  in  God.  He  is  mme,  and  I  am 
His.  What  is  before  me  in  England,  I  know  not;  but  it  is 
sweetly  and  powerfully  impressed,  «  He  can  open  and  no 
man  can  shut,  and  he  can  shut  and  no  man  can  open ;"  and 
with  this,  which  I  believe  to  be  from  the  Holy  Spirit,  I  rest 
secure  and  satisfied. 


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CHAPTER    XIV 


MB.  CAUaFST  m  ENQLAND. 


In  this  chapter  ve  shall  see  our  friend  walking  once  more 
&  the  way  of  naked  faith.  His  communings  with  the  Holy 
Spirit  have  led  him  to  believe  that  his  work  lies  next  in 
En^and.  Though  fully  successful  in  Ireland :  thou^  sur- 
rounded by  friends  whose  affections  he  has  won  by  his  won- 
derful labors ;  yet,  in  obedience  to  his  convictions  of  duty, 
he  tears  lumself  away  from  these  friends,  and  throws  lumself 
once  more  into  the  midst  of  strangers,  confident  that  God 
will  ^ve  lum  abundant  access  to  the  people.  The  facts  re- 
corded will  show  that  he  did  not  trust  God  in  vain. 

The  Poem  contained  in  this  chapter  is  inserted  here  both 
because  we  find  it  in  his  letters,  and  because  it  ^ves  a  fair 
specimen  of  Mr.  Caughey's  powers  as  a  writer  of  verse.  It 
is  appropriate  as  a  feature  in  his  mental  picture. 

On  the  29th  of  October,  (1842,)  in  company  with  Edward 
Robinson,  Esq.,  and  Thomas  Fannin,  Esq.,  of  liverpool,  and 
his  daughter,  I  sailed ■frY>m  Cork  for  this  port,  (Liverpool.) 

The  captain  very  politely  allowed  a  large  party  of  the 
friends  to  come  aboard,  and  acoompan  y  me  down  the  river. 
My  heart  was  greatly  affected  with  their  kindness,  and  after 
an  exchange  of  farewells,  they  landed  at  Passage.  As  our 
fine  steamer,  the  Prince  of  Wales,  darted  across  the  harbor 
218 


MR.  OAUOHBT  lU  ENQLANO. 


219 


raiUdng  once  more 
iga  with  the  Holy 
work  lies  next  in 
and:  though  ear- 
I  won  by  his  won- 
ivictions  of  duly, 
nd  throws  himself 
nfident  that  QodL 
>.  The  facts  re- 
in vain. 

Qserted  here  both 
86  it  ^res  a  fair 
iter  of  verse.  It 
ture. 

any  with  Edward 
of  laverpool,  and 
rt,  (Liverpool.) 
'ge  party  of  the 
e  down  the  river, 
indness,  and  after 
assage.  As  our 
koroBs  the  harbor 


of  the  Cove,  we  had  another  opportunity  of  admiring  the 
beautiful  scenery;  but  there  was  a  smgular  moumfulnesa 
over  my  spirit,  that  seemed  to  tinge  every  object  with  its 
hues.  A  few  mmutes  more,  and  we  were  dashmg  through 
the  outlet,  the  fortifications  of  which  were  frowning  down 
uponts  from  either  hand.  The  uneasy  motions  of  our  ves- 
sel told  us  that,  however  calm  and  lovely  the  day,  it  pos- 
sessed no  charms  to  hush  into  quietness  the  untamed  and 
restless  sea. 

During  the  afternoon,  we  ran  along  the  wild  and  rocky 
coast  of  Ireland,  and  as  we  were  close  in  shore,  we  were 
most  agreeably  entertained  with  a  great  variety  of  objects. 
There  was  Uttle  indeed  of  the  soft  and  beautiful  to  be  seen, 
nor  were  the  rocks  suflSciently  stupendous,  to  impress  the 
mmd  with  images  of  grandeur ;  but  the  amazing  masses  of 
gray  and  gradually  ascending  rocks,  broken  into  rents  and 
chasms,  by  the  action  of  the  waves ;  tiie  bleak  and  shrubless 
highlands  shelving  back,  and  laid  bare  m  their  various  points 
of  elevation,  or  disfigured  by  the  beetling  operations  of  the 
storms  of  many  centuries ;   these,  with  the  bolder  promon- 
tory, shootii^  fer  into  the  deep,  and  the  littie  bays,  with  their 
rugged  beach  and  crested  waves,  seemmg  to  say,  "Land  if 
you  dare,"  were  lughlj  calculated  to  excite  emotions  of  plea- 
sure, mingled  with  absorbii»g  curiosity,  in  the  bosom  of  those 
who  were  fond  of  searcoast  scenery.     Seldom  have  I  seen  a 
bleaker  coast,  though  here  and  tiiere,  we  espied  an  oasis,  just 
sufficient  to  suggest  the  idea  of  "beauty  resting  in  tiie  kp 
of  horror."     Deck-walking  is  a  very  sociable  exercise  in 
pleasant  weather;  but  I  fear  my  taciturnity  disappointed  my 
exceUent  friends.     Though  aUve  to  any  imagery  belongbg 
to  sea  or  land,  which  nught  hereafter  assist  me  in  tiie  iUustrar 
tion  of  truth,  my  mind  was  constantly  embarrassed  with 
one  general  and  uncongenial  idea,  anticipated  sea  mckness. 


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UB.  OAUaHBY  IN  ENaLAND. 


I  have  read  somewhere  of  a  Roman  general,  whose  army 
had  been  overthrown  by  a  powerful  foe,  and  although  he 
hunself  escaped  from  the  hazards  and  desperations  of  the 
battle-field,  was  ever  after  in  a  constant  state  of  terror  and 
alarm,  as  if  he  heard  the  clangor  of  trumpets  and  the  noise 
of  a  pursuing  foe ;  and,  like  many  an  awakened  siniTer  of 
the  nineteenth  century,  he  had  no  cessation  of  his  disqui- 
etudes, unless  when  under  the  influence  of  wine  or  sleep. 

Leaving  wine  and  sleep  out  of  the  question,  it  was  thus 
with  your  friend.  The  waves  are  his  enemies,  and  he  has 
often  been  in  the  pell-mell  of  their  congregated  regiments, 
and,  with  the  exceptivH  of  a  few  slight  skirmishes  on  some 
of  tJie  North  American  lakes,  he  has  always  been  defeated ; 
in  spite  of  all  the  hosts  of  philosophical  and  energetical 
thoughts  he  could  muster  for  the  conflict,  he  has  ever  been 
compelled  to  surrender  or  retreat  in  disgrace.  His  mind  is 
therefore  always  in  a  state  of  consternation,  when  within  the 
territories  of  his  determined  foes. 

Only  read  the  following  lines,  which  I  scribbled  a  few  yean 
«go,  when  my  feet  were  once  more  placed  firmly  on  terra 
fyma,  and  I  could  sing  defiance  to  my  ra^ng  enemies :  — 

It  was  snnrlM, 
And  the  tenth  morning's  dawn  had  brightened 
The  dark  vapors,  which  crept  along  the 
Far  extended  swell  on  Ocean's  bosom. 
Along  the  sky,  fVom  south  to  west,  the  olonda 
Portentously  were  spread  in  massive  tien ; 
The  winds  lay  hushed  amid  their  many  folda. 
And,  like  a  mighty  host  entrenched,  armed, 
Beady  for  the  battle.-; — 

The  sun  arose,  as  if  from  ont  the  deep. 
Encompassed  by  a  mob  of  waves — angiy  wavat, 
Whose  altitude  and  violence,  a  man  of  wit 
•        Declared  treasou  and  outright  rebellion 

Agidnst  the  King  of  Day ;  while  he,  in  giant  power, 
AieendeA  itill,  and  down  ob  crested  foee, 


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nd  although  he 
[)erations  of  the 
te  of  terror  and 
ts  and  the  noise 
kened  siniTer  of 
n  of  his  disqvu- 
dne  or  sleep, 
tion,  it  was  thus 
lies,  and  he  has 
;ated  regiments, 
mishes  on  some 
been  defeated ; 
and  energetical 
le  has  ever  been 
le.  His  mind  is 
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MR.   CAL'QUKY  IN   ENOLAMD. 

And  Dolay  tumult,  acowlcd  dafianoe. 

The  bair-formod  bow  of  Omnipotence  glowed 

On  tbe  floating  fountains  of  the  lowering  hearena. 

Thunders  uttered  their  threat'ning  mnrraars, 

Artillery-like,  their  distant  roar,  without 

The  flashing  of  their  forlted  flres.    Rushing  wlndi 

Arranged  the  clouds  as  armies,  front  to  front, 

Li  dread  array,  charging,  then  retiring, 

Orjjtalng  still  in  mighty  phalanx. 

Tbe  sea  itself  was  troubled, 
And  mirrored  in  its  long  continuous  heave. 
The  dismal  drapery  of  the  scowling  sky ; 
Our  gallant  ship  looked  awfully  timid,  her 
Snow-white  wingj  suspiciously  contracted 
Within  the  circle  of  her  trembliiy  womb. 
Deep  thought  was  seated  on  the  helmimao'a  fluVf 
As  ever  and  anon  he  eyed  the  angel 
Fingers  of  tbe  inspired  guide  of  him 
Who  ploughs  the  surface  of  the  briny  deep, 
And  to  tbe  whidward  heavens  turned  a 
PitiAil,  foreboding  Hook,  and  thought  of  home. 

It  was  a  iolenui  hour, 
And  solenm  seemed  the  Jovial  sons  of  Neptune, 
Each  at  his  post  in  mute  attention, 
Prompt  to  obey  each  stem  command ;  though 
On  the  bending  top-mast,  or  swinging  on 
The  yard's  arm— reeling  to  and  fh>  amidst 
The  gath'rlng  storm,— or  on  the  wave-washed  deck, 
Ready  ever,— always  willing,— though  in 
Performance  of  his  arduous  duty ; 
The  headlong  plunge  is  made  resistless  — 
Deep  Into  the  yawning  gulfs  beneath. 

Awflil  was  the  moment, 
When  the  Father  of  the  skies  his  grasp  nnlooeed 
Of  the  mighty  winds,  and  let  them  ose  thefar  powwt 
Heaven's  sonndhig  squadrons  through  the  conoaTed 
Dome,  pealed  their  dreadftil  notes ;  and  down 
On  rifted  deep  and  reeling  vessel  oame 
With  one  tremendous  roar;  and  in  tumultnont 
Conftu!on  tossed  the  troubled  atmosphere. 
And  hurried  forth  the  wheeling  oloads,  to  sein 
Upon  the  tops  of  congregated  billows,— 
Upward  whiriing  them  *mld  vapors,  foam  and  ttoia. 

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MB.  OAUQHST  IN  BNQLAND. 

The  liquid  monntalns  and  the  cleaving  Talleyi 
Seemed,  in  their  fury,  willing  to  let  n*  touch  the 
Coral rook»,  or  pick  the  gems  fW>m  ocean's  bottom) 
Bat  rapid  as  the  nulling  terrors  of  the  storm, 
Drove  our  straining  vessel  np  the  steeps  again, 
In  wild  amaze  to  mingle  with  the  skies ; 
A  moment  there — of  peril  and  dismay, 
And  suddenly,  away  from  off  that  foaming  peak, 
She  came,  like  avalanche  from  Alpine  mountain  brail 
In  one  tenrifio  sweep  into  the  bUok  abyss. 

A  fearful  crisis  this  1 
The  war  of  winds  and  waves  is  ever  awful, 
But  dreadful  was  this  elemental  climax— 
The  shrill  cry  of  distress  mingled  horribly 
With  the  loud  bellowings  of  the  maddened  deep. 
The  creaVings  of  the  frictioned  timbers  kept 
Awftal  time  to  tattered  sails,  cracking  like  whipa 
Around  the  naked  masts. 

It  was  on  hour  of  terror. 
Infidelity  turned  pale,  and  vice  became  unmasked. 
And  every  man  was  honest  with  himself  and  God. 
Too  late,  how  many  found  opinions  valueless. 
Such  vain  conceits  and  lying  vanities 
Might  do  on  land — on  sea,  when  all  was  calm, 
And  death  far  off; — but  now  in  dread  extremity, 
To  stiU  the  conscience,  or  to  soothe  the  mind. 
Utterly  incapable.    In  time  of  greatest  need, 
Defective  most;  'midst  aggravated  roar  of 
Conflicting  winds  and  all-involving  billows. 
The  wretched  soul  was  left  a  helpless  prey, 
Close  upon  life's  veige,  naked,  cold,  and  tremblingi 
Poised  upon  eternity's'  dread  brink ;  reftage  none, 
By  first  and  second  death  at  once  invaded : 
nil  willing,  by  the  promptings  of  a  black  despair 
To  take  into  eternal  night,  the  awAil  leap, 
Shiieldng  in  horror,  forsalien  and  alone ! 

And  it  was  a  time, 
When  Christianity  shone  with  splendor. 
While  I  could  read  the  troubled  souls,  even  in 
The  very  countenances  of  the  sons  of  Mammon; 
And  hear  the  sinner  pray,  who  never  prayed  beflm 
I  heard  the  Christian  claim,  with  confidence, 
Help  from  Him  who  rode  upon  the  stormy  sky, 


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MR.   CAUGHEY  IN  ENGLAND. 

The  raging  of  the  mighty  seas,  whose  power  eould  ««•«, 
Or  elevate  the  »oul  aboTe  the  tempcst'i  wail, 
To  hope  In  God,  and  clap  her  wings  of  joy.  ' 
And  I  oonld  see  Religion,  daughter  of  the  sklea, 
Bending  o'er  the  mountain  surges,  holding 
Sweet  converse  with  breast's  monitor,  conscience, 
Whispering  a  peace,  which  stood  unshaken  amidst 
The  strife  of  elements  and  peals  of  death  J 

At  a  certam  pomt  toward  evening,  we  graduaUj  retired 
from  ^e  land,  and  as  we  were  losing  sight  of  old  Ireland,  a 
Uttle  bird  came  off  on  fuU  wing,  reached  us,  and  fluttered 
around  the  rigging,  as  if  desirous  to  rest  its  weary  pinions ; 
but  seemg  such  a  formidable  assemblage  on  the  deck,  it 
poised  wing,  and  was  borne  along  on  the  increasing  breeze  out 
to  sea.     For  a  time  it  appeared  a  black  spot,  and  as  it  be- 
came scarcely  discernible,  and  we  were  sympathizing  with  its 
dreary  prospects  should  it  continue  in  that  direction,  it  began 
to  mcrease  in  bulk,  and  after  a  serious  struggle  with  the  gale, 
amved  within  the  riggmg  again,  and  dropped  down  into  a 
recess  m  the  lee  side  of  the  windward  bulwarks,  a  few  feet 
from  the  deck,  and  concealed  itself  behind  some  ropes.    After 
a  whUe,  it  arranged  its  plumage,  and  prepared  itself  in  the 
most  contented  manner  for  a  quiet  night's  rest ;  but  a  cabin 
boy  came  and  seized  the  Httle  stranger ;  we  immediately  took 
Its  part,  and  insisted  he  should  put  it  back  again  into  the 
berth  of  its  choice  ;  but  on  his  promising  to  set  it  at  liberty 
when  near  the  coast  of  Wales,  we  permitted  him  to  bear  it  off. 
I  remarked  to  a  fnend  that  this  incident  brought  forcibly 
to  my  mind  the  conduct  of  an  awakened  sinner ;  that  I  had 
seen  many  an  unhappy  penitent  borne  away  from  the  devil's 
temtones  by  the  powerful  gales  of  the  Spirit,  John  iii.  8 
and  when  about  to  find  rest  to  his  soul,  doubt  and  despair  have 
come  upon  him,  and  he  has  fled  away  from  the  sight  and 
sound  of  salvation;  and  when  the  saints  of  God  have  been 
mourmng  on  account  of  the  dreadful  destmy  that  awaited 


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him,  if  he  continued  to  fly  away  from  the  gospel  hope,  they 
iave  seen  him  returning,  faint,  weary,  and  heavy  laden, 
glad  to  come  aboard  of  «  Zion's  ahip,"  saying  with  the  poet: 

",Loo«e(l  from  God,  and  far  removed. 

Long  have  I  wandered  to  and  fro  5 
O'er  earth  in  endless  circle*  roved, 

Nor  found  whereon  to  rest  below  } 
Back  to  my  Ood  at  last  I  fly. 
For  0,  the  w«tort  stiU  are  high ! 

••  Selfish  pnrsuiU,  and  nature's  mate, 

The  things  of  earth,  for  thee  I  leave: 
Put  forth  thy  hand,  thy  hand  of  grace  j 

Into  the  ark  of  love  receive! 
Take  this  poor  fluttering  soul  to  rest, 
And  lodge  it,  Saviour,  In  thy  breast  I " 

Next  day,  Oct.  80th,  (1842,)  we  landed  at  Liverpool; 
and  that  evemng  attended  divine  service  in  the  Wedeyan 
chapel,  (Brunswick,)  and  heard  a  most  powerful  sermon 
froiTthe  Rev.  Dr.  Beaumont.    My  friend,  Mr.  Fanmn,  whom 
I  mentioned  m  the  beginning  of  this  letter,  introduced  me 
to  the  Doctor  before  sermon.     He  gave  me  a  very  cordial 
welcome  to  England,  and  invited  me  to  preach  forbm ;  this 
I  refused,  but  afterwards  assisted  him  in  the  prayer  meeting. 
On  Monday,  Mr.  Fannin  insisted  I  should  leave  my  hotel, 
and  make  his  house  in  Brougham  terrace  my  home ;  which  I 
accepted,  and  am  now  comfortably  rituated  in  a  pleasant 
part  of  the  town,  and  with  a  very  agreeable  and  mterestmg 

*^fth  regard  to  my  prospeotfl  of  doing  good  in  ilus  town, 
theyarevetydarkatpresent.  Havmg had  no  officuj^  mvitar 
tion  to  visit  Liverpool,  nor  any  acquaintance  wi&  ^^^^ 
leyan  Mnisters  stationed  here,  excepting  the  Rev.  A.  ii.. 
Farrar,  superintendent  of  the  north <5ircuit,  to  whomi  had  an 
mtroduction,  when  on  his  nussionary  deputation  m  Ireh«d,  a 
few  months  «nce,  renders  the  case  rather  perplexing.     My 


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for  me  to  do  here ;  but,  I  fear,  if  the  door  does  not  sooa 
open,  the  devil  will  take  the  advantage,  and  attack  me  as  in 
Dublin.  I  have  had  an  mterview  with  the  Rev.  A.  E.  Far- 
rar,  who  expresses  an  ardent  desire  for  a  revival,  but  we 
have  not,  as  yet,  been  able  to  fix  upon  any  plan  of  special 
eflfort  for  the  salvation  of  sinners.  My  health,  thank  God,  is 
excellent.  My  mind  seems  to  be  under  a  singular  prohibi- 
tion, respecting  leaving  this  town ;  so  that  I  am  unable  to 
give  you  the  least  information  as  to  my  future  movements. 
This  uncertamty  is  painful ;  but  the  Lord  knows  what  kind  ox 
discipline  is  best  for  his  weak  servant.    I  need  your  prayers. 

The  foregoing  part  of  this  chapter  is  from  a  letter  to  an 
American  friend ;  what  now  follows  is  from  a  letter  to  his 
sister,  and  describes  his  mental  struggles  very  touchingly, 
before  his  way  was  fuUy  opened  in  England.  These  strug- 
gles, however,  led  him  to  a  contmued  walk  of  ftuth.  God 
was  true  to  his  promise,  and  agwn  furnished  him  witix  open- 
ings and  opportunities.  Faitii  was  victorious  over  sight. 
But  we  must  allow  him  to  tell  his  own  story : 

I  landed  in  this  port  from  Cork  on  the  30th  of  October, 
and  once  more  walked  the  streets  of  Liverpool,  a  solitary 
stranger,  but  in  a  much  happier  state  of  mind  than  when  last 
here.  Soon  after  my  arrival,  the  Lord  provided  me  a  home 
in  an  excellent  family,  where  I  have  since  remained.  aAIany 
sore  exercises  of  mind  have  been  my  lot,  since  my  ficond 
visit  to  England.  It  would  appear  as  if  the  devU  were  deter- 
mined to  contest  this  ground  with  me  in  a  fierceMnanner 
tiian  in  DubUn.  I  have  groaned,  and  prayed,  Jsr  wept 
much.  You  know  the  hastiness  of  my  dispositional^  apt 
to  decide  quickly,  and  act  promptly.  This  peculiarit^  my 
temperament  would  have  driven  me  out  of  Liverpool,  had  it 


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net  been  for  a  deep  conviction  that  God  has  a  work  for  me 
to  do  here.  Even  up  till  now,  I  would  gladly  retreat,  but 
dare  not. 

On  Sabbath  night,  November  6th,  I  crossed  the  river 
Mersey,  to  the  Cheshire  side,  walked  to  the  Wesleyan 
chapel,  Woodstde,  and  opened  my  commission  in  England, 
with  that  text,  2  Peter  ii.  9.  The  above  passage  has  often 
been  a  comfort  to  me  in  days  of  temptation,  years  gone  by, 
and  I  chose  it  on  this  occasion  on  my  own  behalf,  and  was 
much  comforted.  An  influence  from  God  evidently  rested 
upon  the  people,  and  could  the  blow  have  been  repeated, 
many  sinners,  I  doubt  not,  would  have  been  saved. 

Monday  night,  preached  in  Great  Homer  street  chapel, 
Idverpool.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Farrar  was  present,  and  many  of 
the  leaders  and  local  preachers,  and  a  good  congregation ; 
text,  1  Cor.  X.  15.  In  this  sermon,  I  endeavored  to  lay 
down  a  few  great  principles,  and  the  Lord  applied  the  whole 
by  his  Spirit ;  afterwards  wo  had  a  powerful  prayer  meeting, 
but  none  converted. 

Mr.  Farrar  and  his  official  board  were  unanimously  of 
opimon,  that  a  special  effort  should  now  be  made  for  a 
revival,  and  that  the  meetings  should  be  continued  in  this 
chapel. 

During  the  first  week  we  had  small  congregations ;  my 
soul  was  much  assisted  from  on  high ;  glad  of  an  opportunity 
of  uamg  those  weapons  which  are  not  carnal,  '*  but  mighty 
throu^  God  to  the  pullmg  down  of  strong  holds."  The 
week  ended,  and  we  had  only  one  sinner  converted.  Sab- 
bath, 18th,  I  preached  in  the  afternoon  to  the  sailors,  aboard 
of  the  Bethel  ship,  having  been  inidted  to  do  so  by  Captain 
Hudson,  chaplain  for  the  port.  We  had  a  very  gracious 
season.  The  services,  during  the  ensuing  week,  were  inter- 
fered with  by  tea  meetings  for  important  purposes ;  and  no 


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ilnnnrs,  I  believe,  were  converted.  The  following  SuLlath 
evening,  the  Lord  opened  my  way  to  Great  Homer  street 
chapel  p  ilpit,  add  there  was  a  ehaking  among  th^  dry  hordes ; 
text,  1  Kiii^  xviii.  21 ;  and  from  that  night  the  work  cf 
God  has  advanced  with  majesty  and  power. 

Last  Sab/jath  afternoon,  I  mv>t  thoso  who  had  found  mercy 
eince  tlie  7th  of  November.  The  m«etmg  for  the  young 
converts  was  cordacted  in  a  aimi^ar  xr  \nner  to  thac  I 
describod  in  Cork.  On©  hundred  and  thirteen  persons  came 
forward,  and  b  the  most  distinct  manner,  iad  with  many 
tears,  declared,  that  Goi  for  Chrst's  saLj  had  pardoned 
their  sins.  M&ny  who  had  found  .^nlvation,  imi  who  did  not 
undenjtand  the  natni-o  of  the  meetin|i:,  wore  not  present;  but 
thirty  acditioual  persor^  gave  thtir  uames  io  the  evening,  aa 
trophies  of  redeemirijj  love.     All  glory  be  to  God ! 

It  would  be  unposgible,  my  dear  sister,  to  tell  you  how 
severely^  and  on  hoT^-  xanGj  pointe,  the  adversR'7ha8  ha^jiss- 
ed  me,  during  these  few  weeks  I  have  haen  m  Englani  but 
all  his  fittempw  to  discourage  me  have  driven  me  nearer  to 
God.  Part  of  each  forenoon  wa*  spent  upon  my  knees, 
crying  to  God  for  Liverpool,  and  a  fuller  baptism  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  upon  my  own  soul. 

The  Lord,  daring  thew  seasons  of  conflict,  gave  sereraJ 
helps  to  my  mth.  Pei».ai»  the  foUowing  may  be  interesting 
to  you.  One  day  a  stronger  crjne  into  my  room,  end  said, 
"  Sir,  u  few  weeks  before  you  arrived  in  this  to^^a,  I  had  a 
singular  dream.  I  thought  I  was  passing  up  a  certain  8t.-eet, 
when  I  saw  two  immense  flani  ju  arising  from  each  side ;  on* 
was  of  a  bluish  color,  and  filleJ  aac  with  horror ;  the  appear 
ance  of  the  other  flame  was  quite  diflferent.  These  flaiites 
met  m  terrible  oonteation,  and  filled  the  straet,  w  that  to 
pass  soemed  impoasible.  It  was  suggesttd  to  my  mind  by 
■ome  one  near,  '  You  must  not  attempt  to  pass,  or  you^jiai 


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be  burned.'  I  replied,  that  pass  I  would,  and  pass  I  cUd, 
•while  the  flames  played  around  my  shoulders ;  but  when  I 
got  through  there  was  not  a  singe,  nor  smell  of  fire  upon  my 
garments,  and  I  distinctly  heard  a  voice,  saying,  *  Glory  be 
to  God  !*  And,  Sir,  the  first  night  you  preached  in  Great 
Homer  street  chapel,  I  heard  you,  and  the  moment  your 
voice  reached  my  ear,  I  recogmzed  it  as  the  voice  I  heard 
in  my  dream,  saying,  '  Glory  be  to  God !'  and  now,  Sir, 
thank  God,  through  your  instrumentality,  I  have  obtained  a 
clear  sense  of  the  remission  of  my  ans,  with  the  pardoning 
love  of  God." 

The  great  Dr.  Johnson  used  to  say, "  Do  not  wholly  be- 
lieve dreams,  for  they  may  be  false ;  but  do  not  entirely 
wiject  them,  because  they  may  be  true." 

The  remainder  of  this  chapter  is  from  a  letter  to  a  fnend, 
and  describes  Ids  movements  m  Liverpool  up  to  January  8, 
1843. 

The  Lord  has  opened  a  great  and  effectual  door  for  me  m 
liverpool.  The  enemy  opposed  me  most  seriously,  and  ea. 
deavored  in  various  ways  to  shut  the  door  of  usefulness,  and 
insinuated  that  he  would  completely  block  up  my  way  in 
England ;  but  the  pronuse  I  received  in  Ireland  stood  fast, 
and  was  the  "  sheet  anchor  "  of  my  soul.  Isaiah  »ii.  22, 
and  Rev.  iii.  7,  8.  On  the  13th  of  last  December,  Iswah 
liv.  17,  was  given  to  me,  "  No  weapon  that  is  formed  against 
thee  shall  prosper,"  and  has  rested  sweetly  upon  my  mind 
nnce.  In  the  time  of  extremity,  God  came  down  in  power 
and  arrested  scores  of  sinners,  and  surrounded  us  witii  the 
tears  and  cries  of  imploring  pemtents.  This  was  such  a 
demonstration  of  the  presence  and  approbation  of  God  that 
few  could  withstand,  except  those  who  were  entrenched  at 
home,  and  amuped  themselves  with  the  strange  and  garbled 


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mell  of  fire  upon  my 
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a  the  voice  I  heard 
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a  letter  to  a  friend, 
)ol  up  to  January  3, 

ictual  door  for  me  in 
st  seriously,  and  ea* 
or  of  usefulness,  and 
lock  up  my  way  in 
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lul.  IsaiahL  xni.  22, 
st  December,  Isuah 
liat  is  formed  against 
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reports  which  were  put  m  circulation.  The  Rev.  A.  E. 
Farrar,  the  Superintendent,  pronounced  it  at  once  a  special 
work  of  God,  and  among  friends  and  foes  stood  up  for  ihe 
revival  most  nobly,  as  did  also  his  excellent  colleagues,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Beaumont,  and  the  Rev.  John  H.  James. 

After  spending  about  five  weeks  upon  what  is  called  hero 
the  "  North  Circuit,"  and  many  sinners  were  converted  to 
God,  a  deputation  of  Leaders  from  the  "  South  Circuit " 
waited  upon  me,  with  a  request  to  spend  a  few  weeks  with 
them;  saying,  "Come,  Sir,  and  let  the  revival  flame  bo 
kindled  at  diflFerent  points,  and  God  may  set  the  town  m  a 
bla^e."  As  Mr.  Farrar  had  advised  me,  by  all  means,  to 
visit  the  South  Circuit,  should  an  invitation  come  from  the 
proper  authority,  I  agreed,  pronded  the  Superintendent 
was  willing.  We  therefore  walkedP  down  to  see  the  Rev. 
William  Atherton,  who  received  us  politely,  and  though  evi- 
dently not  at  all  enthusiastia  upon  the  subject,  yielded  to  the 
request  of  the  Leaders,  and  your  friend  received  an  official 
permission  to  preach  the  gospel  of  the  kingdom  on  that  aide 
of  the  town.  His  colleagues,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hargreaves, 
and  the  Rev.  Henry  H.  Chettle,  were  not  present  during  the 
interview,  but  I  had  the  pleasure  of  an  introduction  to  them 
afterwards. 

That  very  night,  in  Pitt  street  chapel,  a  few  hot  shot  from 
the  walls  of  Zion  were  thrown  into  the  entrenchments  of  the 
devil's  children,  and  four  of  them  cried  out  for  mercy— 

"  Wounded  by  the  Spirit's  sword, 
And  then  by  Gilead's  balm  nstored  "— 

One  of  them  an  old  woman  of  seventy-two.    Shorfly  after 
we  began  m  the  above  chapel,  I  was  taken  with  a  severe 
hoarseness,  m  consequonce  of  having  to  walk  some  distance 
after  preachmg,  and  being  a  Kttle  careless  withal.    It  oon 
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fined  me  two  nights  to  my  room,  but  in  answer  to  the  prayer 
of  faith,  and  the  use  of  means,  (inhaling  the  vapor,  caused 
by  a  red  hot  poker  in  a  mug  of  tar,  and,  at  certain  intervals, 
sipping  a  little  flax-seed  tea,  made  to  the  consistence  of 
honey,)  I  regained  my  voice,  and  we  continued  the  battle 
with  vigor.  During  the  first  week,  we  had  twenty  con- 
verted; the  next  week  seventy;  and  the  week  after,  more 
than  forty. 

On  the  night  of  the  Slst  of  December,  I  assisted  one  of 
the  preachers  in  holding  a  watch  night  in  Pitt  street  chapel. 
Altogether,  it  was  one  of  the  most  singular  of  the  kind  I  lu^d 
ever  attended.  Several  exhortations  were  ^ven,  but  the 
"  direct  aim  "  was  wanting,  and  I  fear  your  friend  was  quit« 
as  deficient  as  lus  breUpen.  We  seemed  afraid  of  each 
other,  and  did  nothing,  wben  the  new  year  was  ushered 
m,  and  part  of  the  immense  crowd  had  retired,  God  enabled 
me  to  break  (hrou^  the  infernal  oppression  winch  rested 
upon  us,  and  in  a  few  minutes,  we  had  the  altar  filled  with 
weeping  pemtents,  and  several  obtained  salvation.  I  retired 
to  rest,  about  three  o'clock  in  the  morning,  much  cast  down 
by  reflecting  upon  the  comparative  Mure  upon  such  an 
important  night. 

On  the  following  day,  I  assisted  one  of  the  preachers  in 
the  adimnistration  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  at  Wesley  chapel, 
Stanhope  street,  and  enjoyed  a  very  solemn  season  in  "  the 
renewal  of  the  covenant."  The  latter  is  a  most  impressive 
service,  and  why  it  has  not  been  incorporated  into  the  usages 
of  American  Methodism,  I  cannot  tell ;  of  the  gracious 
effects,  there  can  be  no  question.  I  shall  bring  with  me  on 
my  return  a  copy  of  the  Covenant. 

New  Year's  Day  night,  I  preached  in  the  Mount  Pleasant 
chapel  to  a  crowded  congregation.  Twelve  siiuiers  wore 
converted  to  God. 


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led  afraid  of  each 
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Uj,  to  this  time,  not  less  than  two  hundred  and  seventy 
sinners  have  been  converted  ;  but  only  one  hundred  and 
thirty  of  these  are  from  the  world ;  the  remainder  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Wesleyan  church.  I  am  amazed  at  this ;  but  so 
it  was  in  the  cities  I  visited  in  Ireland.  Certainly  this  was 
a  large  number  to  be  meeting  in  class  without  conversion.  I 
have  had  some  tribulation  to  endure,  since  my  arrival  here. 
Much  from  my  great  adversary,  and  some  from  poor  human 
nature,  warped  by  various  prejudices.  My  position  is  a  sin- 
gular one,  though  I  trust  in  tiie  order  of  God,  else  I  would 
very  soon  return  to  America ;  but  it  is  not  understood  in 
Liverpool;  nor  would  it  be  becoming,  I  fear,  to  appear 
anxious  to  set  matters  in  a  clearer  light,  unless  it  were 
requested,  lbs  voice  of  the  Lord  in  my  conscience  seems 
to  be, "  Mind  the  one  work,  for  the  accomplishment  of  which 
you  have  been  sent ;  you  have  nothing  to  do  either  with  tbe 
opening  or  shutting  of  the  door,  so  long  as  you  are  faithful 
in  saving  souls."  The  opinions  about  me  are  various,  and 
some  things  to  me  are  inexplicable ;  and  if  any  thing,  in 
some  sort,  throws  a  ray  of  Ught  upon  them,  it  is,  that  I  am 
sure  there  b  notliing  personal  designed ;  only  what  is  con- 
sidered by  some  "  good  policy."  This  reflection  relieves  my 
mind,  and  enables  me  to  exercise  that  charity  which  "  bear- 
etii  all  things,  believeth  all  tilings  " — ^the  best  of  every  man, 
so  as  to  pat  a  good  construction  even  upbn  the  greatest  pann 
doxes — "  hopeth  all  things,  endureth  all  things."  I  know 
my  eye  is  single.  The  salvation  of  lost  mnners  is  my  steady, 
constant  aim ;  but  as  all  cannot  see  my  heart,  it  would  bt 
wrong  in  me  to  frot  with  those  who  cannot  appreciate  mjr 
motives,  nor,  for  the  present,  sympathize  witii  my  move- 
ments. My  soul  is  greatly  humbled  before  the  Lord ;  but  X 
am  his,  and  he  is  mine.  This  is  settled,  therefore  I 
rtyoice,  and  be  glad  in  the  Rock  of  my  salvation.  3^  -r- 


.—•w.,^. 


WJL 


CHAPTER    XV. 

ABouMEirrs  wrcH  thb  enemies  of  revivals. 

The  succeeding  chapter  presenis  a  new  phase  in  tho 
character  of  our  Bevivalist.  He  is  in  the  arena  of  contro- 
versy, contending  nobly  with  the  adversaries  whom  Satan 
raised  up  in  Liverpool  to  buffet  him.  It  would  appear  that 
these  enemies  assaulted  him  with  a  variety  of  objections  to 
his  manner,  his  mode  of  procedure,  his  style  of  preachmg, 
and  even  to  the  astonishing  results  of  his  labors.  To  these 
miscnves  he  replied  in  a  masterly  manner,  as  the  reader 
will  see.  I  do  not  remember  any  work  which  deals  so 
tersely,  and  so  effectually  with  revival  objeetiorUf  as  Mr. 
Cauj^y  has  done  in  these  letters.  He  wastes  no  words ; 
he  resorts  to  none  of  the  intricacies  of  logic ;  but  mmply 
grasps  his  opponent's  objection  with  a  hand,  conscious  of 
superior  strength,  and  forthwith  it  shrinks  and  cowers  in 
abject  subnussion  before  him.  I  think  this  chapter  will 
become  an  armory  of*choice,  defensive  weapons  for  the  friends 
of  revivals. 

The  reader  must  bear  in  mind,  that  the  objections  here  met 
were  sent  to  Mr.  Caughey  by  different  persons,  to  whom  he 
wrote  these  replies.  Hence  he  does  not  always  state  them 
in  due  form,  but  they  may  be  easily  gathered  from  the 
replies,  by  a  reflective  mind.  The  abruptness  with  wlueh  he 
presents  then  is,  as  the  reader  has  already  leanrad,  his 
pectiliariiy.  If  not  consistent  with  elegance,  it  at  least 
282 


REVIVALS. 

m  phase  in  ih« 
arena  of  contro- 
ies  whom  Satan 
ould  appear  that 
r  of  objecdons  to 
rie  of  preaching, 
abors.  To  these 
r,  as  the  reader 
which  deals  so 
jeeUotUf  as  Mr. 
rastes  no  words; 
>gic;  but  mmply 
md,  conscious  of 
I  and  cowers  in 
:his  chapter  will 
)ns  for  the  friends 

jections  here  met 
ions,  to  whom  he 
Iways  state  them 
Uiered  from  the 
IBS  with  which  he 
Eidy  leanrad,  his 
mce,  it  at  least 


ARGUMENTS   WITH  TUB  KNKMIBS  OF  REVIVALS.      233 

favors  brevity.  As  usual,  I  have  blended  the  letters  into 
one  continuous  chapter.  They  were  all  dated  from  Livei-pool 
during  the  winter  and  spring  of  1843. 

Your  objections  are  not  worthy  of  attention;  but  are  you 
not  on  some  pomts  rather  too  severe  ?  at  least,  over  positive  ? 
Read  again  the  following:  "I  am  convinced  many  persons 
are  merely  fnghtened  into  a  reli^ous  life,  by  the  singular 
services."  This  is  Uie  mere  echo  of  your  friend,  Mr.  •  •  • 
who  says,  "when  the  terrors  are  off  them,  they  will  be  as 
bad  as  ever."  Perhaps  not;  they  may  linger  around  their 
hearts  till  they  change  worids.  But  many  of  them  are 
entirely  delivered  from  "the  terrors,"  and  are  rejoicing 
with  joy  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory.  I  have  heard  scores 
of  them  bless  God  they  ever  heard  the  voice  that  terrified 
them.  This  shows  they  are  neither  displeased  noi  tired  of 
ike  fright. 

"  When  you  leave  Liverpool,  the  results  will  be  woeful 
enough."  It  is  weU  if  you  do  not  desire  your  prophecies  to 
be  fulfilled,  that  you  may  have  it  to  say,  "  I  knew  it  would 
be  so." 

"  What  man  of  reading  and  intelligence,  who  attends 
these  meetings,  can  leave  them  without  a  conviction  that 
ti»ere  is  a  constant  aim  to  excite  the  passions  ?"  There  are 
very  many  intelligent  people  who  firequent  these  services, 
think  quite  differently. 

"  H'  w  little  respect  is  paid  to  the  understandmg.  Proofs 
of  the  existence  of  a  God,  immortality  of  the  soul,  divine 
authenticity  of  tho  scriptures,  etc.,  are  banished  from  the 
pulpit,  where  once  they  shone  in  all  their  glory."  These 
are  by  no  means  neglected,  but  they  are  not  discussed  as 
they  should  be  to  ignorant  pagans.  Ninety-nine  out  of  a 
hundred  of  tiiose  who  attend  tiiese  services  regularly,  believe 
20* 


-X. 


234      ARGUMENTS  WITH  THB  ENEMIES  OF  REVIVALS. 

these  articles  of  our  creed.  We  know  this  to  be  a  fact. 
There  are,  however,  thousands  who  can  bear  witness  that  the 
judgments  of  the  hearers,  and  the  doctrines  of  which  you 
speak,  have  not  been  disregarded ;  yet  I  freely  admit,  my 
object  has  been  to  drive  down  into  the  heart  the  knowledge 
of  the  head ;  that  is,  to  make  them  feel  what  they  already 
know.  If  this  is  what  you  mean  by  exciting  the  passions,  I 
must  plead  guilty. 

The  sentiments  of  a  miiuster,  now  with  God,  are  worth 
hearing ;  they  once  stumbled  me,  but  I  can  well  understand 
them  new.  "  You  may  prove  this,  confirm  or  confute  that, 
but  who  hates  his  sins  ?  Who  cries  for  mercy  ?  Who  turns 
to  God  ?  Sinners  may  as  well  be  hearkening  to  a  mathema- 
tician demonstrating  Euclid's  Elements,  as  to  a  preacher 
only  proving  a  point  of  Christianity.  When  I  was  a  young 
man  I  endeavored  to  drive  religion  into  the  heads  of  my 
bearers,  but  I  have  ^ven  that  up,  and  having  learned  a  little 
more  wisdom,  I  attack  the  heart  only,  and  labor  with  all  my 
night  to  melt  them  down  in  the  tendeiest  manner,  tall  they 
cry  out,  *  I  have  need  of  every  thing  God  has  done  for  mo.' " 

Why  detain  a  man  to  hear  you  prove  that  to  which  he 
readily  assents  ?  What  better  way  to  drive  a  man  to  his 
feet,  or  knees,  than  to  make  him  feel  that  it  is  his  duty  and 
interest  to  allow  his  belief  to  exert  an  entire  influence  over 
his  affections  and  Ufe  ? 

"  And  o'er  the  sinner's  naked  heart, 
Scatter  the  living  coals  of  truth." 

"  Such  crushing  and  crowding, — our  chapels  will  be  ruined." 
They  were  built  for  this  purpose,  and  it  is  not  unlikely  they 
will  be  standmg  when  you  and  I  are  m  our  graves. 

"  We  were  going  on  quietly,  and  could  worship  God  com- 
fortably before  this  stir."  This  may  be  correct,  but  it  u  no 
less  true  that  sinners  were  going  to  hell  by  thousands. 


Lak. 


f 


REVIVALS. 


ABUUMENTS   WITH  TUE  ENEMIES   OF  REVIVALS.      285 


is  to  be  a  fact. 
r  mtness  that  the 
les  of  \rhich  you 
freely  admit,  my 
•t  the  knowledge 
rhat  they  already 
kg  the  passions,  I 

i  Ood,  are  worth 
.  well  understand 
1  or  confute  that, 
:cy  ?  Who  turns 
ig  to  a  mathema- 
a  to  a  preacher 
n  I  was  a  young 
the  heads  of  my 
g  learned  a  little 
labor  with  all  my 
mamier,  till  they 
s  done  for  me.' " 
that  to  wluch  he 
re  a  man  to  his 
it  is  his  duty  and 
:e  influence  over 


s  will  be  ruined." 

aot  unlikely  they 

graves. 

orship  God  com- 

rect,  but  it  is  no 

thousands. 


"  Now,  all  is  confusion ;  families  and  servants  are  dis- 
tracted and  uncontrollable,  and  the  town  is  likely  to  be  in  an 
uproar."  Perhaps  you  have  not  seen  a  late  German  writer 
on  this  subject.  He  can  help  you  to  a  few  ideas.  Hear 
him :  "  Faithful  mimsters  are  often  storm-birds,  or  messen- 
gers of  misfortune.  The  preaching  of  the  gospel  by  them 
is  like  the  sinking  of  a  burning  mountain  in  the  sea ;  sleep- 
ers awake,  and  the  dry  bones  are  stirred.  On  such  occa- 
sions the  thoughts  of  many  hearts  are  revealed.  0  what 
divisions  of  heart  may  we  then  witness !  but  the  awakening 
preachers  are  regarded  as  the  offending  parties.  <  The  men 
who  have  turned  the  world  upude  down  have  come  hither 
also.' " 

"These  fren2ied  and  mystical  declamations  respecting 
hell," — Hold !  do  you  believe  there  is  such  a  place  as  hell 
in  eternity  ?  The  same  as  is  represented  in  the  Scriptures  ? 
That  sinners  are  in  as  great  danger  of  falling  into  it  now  as 
1800  years  ago  ?  J£  you  deny  this,  I  have  nothing  more  to 
say  to  you  in  self-dtfence.  We  must  occupy  different  por- 
tions in  regard  to  truth  and  duty,  and  the  question  in  debate 
must  be  changed.  But  I  shall  take  it  for  granted  that  you 
believe  the  above  propositions.  How  then  are  men  to  be 
warned  of  such  a  dreadful  reality  ? 

Allowing  that  thousands  of  tiiese  liverpool  sinners,  who 
eagerly  crowd  to  hear  the  truth,  are  every  moment  in  jeop- 
ardy of  falling  into  hell,  how  are  they  to  be  aroused  to  a 
sense  of  their  danger?  By  any  other  mode  of  voice  and  feel- 
ing than  what  a  firm  belief  in  such  an  awful  hell  would  natu- 
rally excite  ?  Should  a  watchman,  at  midnight,  discover  a 
house  in  flames  over  a  sleeping  family,  how  would  you  have 
him  alarm  the  unconscious  inmates ?  "I  would  have  him 
cry,  Rre!  fire!  fire!"  "Cry!"  would  you  have  him  cry  ? 
But  not  like  a  man  asleep,  or  drunk,  or  in  jest,  or  afirud  of 


iH  ' 


mmmmm 


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236      ARGUMENTS  WITU  XUE   ENEMIES   OF  KSVIVALS. 


f 
I 


hurting  their  feelings,  but  in  good  earnest,  and  at  the  top  of 
his  voice,  "  Fire !  fire ! !  fire ! !  1"  "  Eat  the  danger  is  noi 
80  great."  Are  you  £ure  of  that  ?  Is  there  no  family,  or 
sinner  in  jeopardy  of  eternal  burning  among  the  multitudes 
vrho  hear  me  from  night  to  night  ?  The  thread  of  life  is  a 
brittle  afl&ir :  — 

*  And  death,  that  flings  at  all, 
Stands  armed  to  strike  them  down,  and  flames 
AUeud  their  faU." 

I  may  not  be  long  away  from  Liverpool,  before  the  sudden 
death  of  some  of  these  sinners,  shall  prove  the  dreadful  truth 
of  the  sentiment.  Ay,  and  the  triumphant  exit  of  several  of 
these  young  converts  may  prove  the  time  of  then:  convex 
sion  to  have  been  a  momentous  crisis  in  their  history.  But 
to  return.  I  once  discovered  a  building  on  fire,  with  a 
number  of  wooden  houses  close  by,  and  a  heavy  south  wind 
to  drive  the  flames  onward.  I  awoke  the  ndghborhood  with 
a  cry  of  fire,  and  saved  the  place.  But  no  one  blamed  me 
for  treatmg  the  matter  aa  a  reality.  The  same  people,  how- 
ever, complained  loudly  when  I  warned  them  of  the  danger 
of  falling  into  hell  with  similar  earnestness.  Query,  did 
they  believe  in  a  hell  of  fire,  and  that  their  souls  were  more 
valuable  than  their  endangered  property  ?  Did  they  not 
rather  consider  the  loss  of  eternal  life  of  less  consequence 
than  that  of  temporal  life  ?  "A  man  may  tell  you,"  says 
a  writer,  "  your  house  is  o .  fire  in  such  a  way  as  to  make 
quite  an  opposite  impression,  and  you  will  take  it  for  granted 
that  your  house  is  not  on  fire."  May  we  not  warn  sinners 
in  the  same  way,  and  make  an  impression  exactly  sunilar  ? 
I  have  heard  of  two  young  men  who  were  carting  gravel 
from  a  pit.  One  of  them  met  his  companion  returning  with 
a  load,  whom  ho  saluted  as  they  passed :  "  Your  cart  will 
break  down."    A  short  distance  from  the  spot  it  came  to 


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EVIVALS. 

id  at  the  top  of 
16  danger  is  not 
e  no  fanuly,  or 
the  multitudes 
ead  of  life  is  a 

tall, 
nes 

fore  the  sudden 
)  dreadful  trutii 
dt  of  several  of 
)f  their  convert 
r  history.  But 
on  fire,  with  a 
lavy  south  wind 
ighborhood  with 
one  blamed  me 
ne  people,  how- 
a  of  the  danger 
I.  Query,  did 
iouls  were  more 

Did  they  not 
iss  consequence 
tell  you,"  says 
way  as  to  make 
ce  it  for  granted 
)t  warn  sinners 
exactly  similar  ? 

carting  grarel 
1  returning  with 
Your  cart  will 
spot  it  came  to 


»-tXM-*Wn*ltM*.«rT*  ■ 


ABGUMENT3  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OF  UEVIVALS.   237 

the  ground  with  a  crash.  When  they  again  met,  the  unfor- 
tunate person  was  accosted,  "  I  told  you  your  cart  would 
break  down."  "  Yes,  you  told  me,"  was  replied,  "  but  you 
said  it  in  such  a  manner  that  I  did  not  know  whether  you 
were  in  jest  or  in  earnest.  Why  did  you  not  tell  me  in  such 
a  way  that  I  could  Hot  but  believe  you?" 

It  appears  that  you  think  the  Liverpool  sinners  do  not 
misunderstand  me.  Thank  God!  nor  shall  they  while  I 
remain  in  town.  None  of  them  shall  tell  God  Almighty  in 
the  day  of  judgment,  *' James  Caughey  warned  me  of  this 
day,  and  of  a  coming  hell,  but  it  was  in  such  a  manner  that 
I  could  not  tell  whether  or  not  he  was  in  earnest."  Why 
should  I  be  called  a  fanatic  for  this  ?  An  eminent  minister, 
now  in  heaven,  once  defended  himself  from  the  charge  of 
enthusiasm,  in  the  following  language :  *'  Because  I  am  in 
earnest,  men  call  me  an  enthusiast.  When  I  came  into  this 
part  of  the  country  I  was  walking  on  yonder  hill.  I  saw  a 
gravel-pit  fall  and  bury  three  men.  I  lifted  up  my  voice  so 
loud  that  I  was  heard  in  the  town  below,  at  the  distance 
of  a  mile.  Help  came,  and  rescued  two  of  the  poor  suf- 
ferers. No  one  called  me  an  enthusiast  then.  And  when 
I  see  eternal  destruction  awaiting  my  fellow-men,  some 
ahready  engulfed  in  that  hell,  and  others  under  a  mass  of  sin 
and  wrath  which  shall  speedily  sink  them  there,  and  call 
aloud  for  warnbg  and  help,  shall  I  be  called  an  enthusiast 
now?" 

Perhaps  you  may  be  inclined  to  make  the  application  in 
my  favor. 

You  reason  well;  no  rational  man  could  object.  But 
what  has  all  this  to  do  vrith  the  enlightened  congregation  at 
•  •  •  •  chapel?  Have  they  not  been  sitting  under  the 
sound  of  the  gospel  for  years  ?  Enter  into  conversation  with 
scores  and  hundreds  of  them; — how  dear  their  views  upon 


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I 


288      AROUMBNTS   WITH  IBS!  ENEMIES   OF  RBVIVALS. 


all  the  essential  doctrines  of  Christianity !  A  large  propor< 
tion  of  the  young  people  have  been  trained  in  the  Sabbath 
school,  and  are  familiar  with  the  holy  Scriptures.  Many  of 
them  are  moral  and  upright  in  their  conduct,  but  without 
any  internal  reh^on.  Converse  with  them  closely,  and  tliey 
will  candidly  admit  they  have  never  been  bom  agtun.  Not 
a  few  members  of  the  society  confess  their  state  unsafe. 
Some,  indeed,  of  that  congregation,  may  doubt  whether  a 
knowledge  of  salvation  by  the  remission  of  sms  can  be  ob- 
tiuned ;  but  a  vaat  majority  allow  even  this.  But  they  are  not 
alarmed  on  the  subject.  Then:  hearts  are  still  cold  and  in- 
different. What  is  to  be  done  ?  Could  you,  or  any  sensible 
man,  believing  the  word  of  God,  forbid  a  minister  to  cry  unto 
the  Lord,  for  an  influence  from  heaven  to  come  down  upon 
these  sinners  ?  On  returning  to  the  pulpit,  should  he  not 
bring  his  God  with  him,  and  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
attempt  to  break  them  down  into  compunction  for  their  sins  ? 
How  can  he  do  this  more  readily,  than  by  seizing  upon  the 
knowledge  already  in  the  head,  as  the  element  of  alarming 
appeals  to  the  conscience  ?  They  have  been  reasoned  with 
tUl  their  heads  are  as  clear  as  those  of  devils ;  but  their 
hearts  are  like  flint,  and  cold  as  ice.  They  believe  as  cor- 
rectly as  devils  do,  but,  unlike  devils,  there  is  no  trembling. 
James  u.  19.  They  must  be  made  to  tremlble,  and  be  broken 
down  before  the  Lord  God  of  hosts,  or  they  can  never  be 
saved. 

"  You  certainly  impress  the  audience  with  a  want  of  re- 
spect for  their  understanding,  and  so  prejudice  them  against 
you  and  your  message."  It  may  be  so ;  I  must  run  the  risk 
of  that.  If  they  understood  the  matter  properly,  they  should 
consider  that  I  honor  their  intelligence.  In  some  of  my  ser- 
mons, it  is  taken  for  granted,  that  they  believe  in  all  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Bible.    The  point  then  at  issue  is,  whether  it  is 


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REVIVALS. 


ARQUMBIITS  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OF  RBVIYALS.     239 


A  large  proper- 
id  in  the  Sabbath 
tures.  Many  of 
luct,  but  mthoufe 
closely,  and  they 
)om  again.  Not 
eir  state  unsafe, 
loubt  whether  a 
f  sins  can  be  ob* 
But  they  are  not 
still  cold  and  in* 
I,  or  any  sensible 
niater  to  cry  unto 
come  down  upon 
lit,  should'  he  not 
■the  Holy  Ghost, 
on  for  their  sins? 
seizing  upon  the 
lent  of  alarming 
>n  reasoned  with 
levils;  but  their 
y  believe  as  cor- 
is  no  trembUng. 
•le,  and  be  broken 
>y  can  never  be 

;h  a  want  of  re- 
lice  them  against 
Qust  run  the  risk 
)erly,  they  should 
some  of  my  ser- 
ive  in  all  thedoc- 
?  is,  whether  it  is 


not  high  time  they  should  test  their  principles,  by  a  conscious 
and  happy  experience.  In  other  words,  that  the  enjoyments 
of  the  heart  should  harmonize  with  the  "knowledge  in  the 
head."  Upon  this  I  labor  with  all  my  might.  My  plan,  then, 
18  to  lay  close  eriege  to  the  heart  and  conscience,  and  $torm 
them,  if  I  can.  If  this  cannot  be  done  in  one  night,  I  return 
to  the  charge  the  next.  And  so,  without  any  "flourish  or 
prolusion,"  fall  to  blows,  and  that  so  rapidly  as  to  give  them 
no  time  to  recover  tbomselves.  When  they  "  cry  for  quar- 
ters," mercy  is  freely  and  generously  offered  through  the 
blood  of  the  Lamb. 

But  forget  not,  that  in  every  appeal  made  to  the  heart, 
there  is  a  dignified  recognition  of  principles  already  lodged 
in  the  imderstanding. 

I  consider  the  mtelligence  of  that  congregation  insulted, 
when  a  preacher,  month  after  month,  and  year  after  year, 
engages  their  attention  in  proving  and  defining  pomts  of  be- 
lief, and  theological  terms.  I  doubt  whether  they  would 
bear  with  him  three  Sabbatiis,  but  for  the  charity  that  hopes 
somebody  needs  enlightening  upon  such  subjects.  That  min- 
ister does  credit  to  the  intellects  of  his  audience,  who  drives 
home  to  the  conscience,  witii  a  giant  arm,  truths  which  they 
profess  to  believe.  He  's  only  pushing  received  and  ac- 
knowledged pr!::jiple8  to  their  proper  result  in  the  conver- 
sion of  the  soul. 

You  go  on,  "  Why  not  a  little  system,  and  some  attention 
to  accent  and  cadence  f  nor  should  you  be  above  a  nice 
definition  of  words.  You  are  capable  of  all  these,  but  you 
suflfer  your  feelings  to  run  away  with  your  reason.  I  can  see 
no  good  in  all  this  furious  bluster ;  and  as  for  such  outcries 
among  hitherto  sober  and  sensible  people  —I  am  amared.** 
And  thus  it  will  be  with  you,  till  you  understand  my  aim  in 
preaching,— the  conversion  of  smners  to  God.     It  is  in 


240      AROUMENTS    WITH  THE  ENEMIES   OF  REVIVALS. 


t      ' 


hearing  this  kind  of  preaching,  as  one  looking  at  an  archer 
Bhooting  at  a  mark.  Unless  the  by-stander  notice  the  object 
aimed  at,  and  observe  the  arrow  the  moment  it  leaves  the 
string,  there  is  notlung  more  seen  of  it,  till  it  strike  the 
ground,  or  stick  fast  in  the  mark.  But  let  the  design  of  the 
marksman  be  observed,  and  the  flight-shaft  is  seen  the 
moment  it  is  dehvered ;  the  eye  following  it  through  the  air, 
till  it  strike  the  point  to  which  it  was  directed.  All  confu- 
sion is  then  avoided,  and  the  effect  upon  the  mind  most 
agreeable. 

Consider  the  intention  of  the  minister ;  notice  the  mark ; 
appreciate  his  motives ;  recognize  the  adaptation  of  the  truths 
delivered.  Sympathize  with  the  feelings  of  the  man  of  God ; 
follow  the  shaft  by  the  eye  of  faith,  to  the  invisible  heart  of 
the  sinner ;  nor  will  you  be  surprised  if  he  cry  aloud,  as  in 
an  agony  from  an  arrow  sticking  fast.  Havmg  traced  tho 
cause  to  the  effect,  and  the  effect  back  to  the  cause,  the  sure 
results  of  gospel  truth  shall  gladden  your  heart.  The  bitter 
complaints  of  one  of  old,  minglmg  in  the  outcries,  shall  then 
be  no  confusion  to  you.  "  For  the  arrows  of  the  Ahnighty 
are  within  me,  the  poison  whereof  drinketh  up  my  spirit ; 
the  terrors  of  God  do  set  themselves  in  array  agtunst  me." 
Job  vi.  4.  ' 

I  am  aware  you  have  not  received  that  answer  which  some 
of  your  remarks  have  richly  merited.  But,  if  you  havo 
thrown  away  from  you  common  politeness  and  good  humor,  I 
choose  to  retain  both.  Beware,  lest  while  you  bear  the 
character  of  a  despiser,  you  wonder  and  perish.  Acts  mi. 
41 .  Remember  it  is  written,  "  His  arrows  are  made  ready 
upon  the  strings,"  Ps.  xxi.  12,  and  that  he  holds  the  exrow 
of  death,  as  well  as  those  suitable  for  conviction  of  sin. 
«  God  shall  shoot  at  them  with  an  arrow,"  says  the  Psalmistj 
"  suddenly  shall  they  be  wounded  "  unto  death. 


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OF  REVIVaUI. 

coking  at  an  arcber 
der  notice  the  object 
Qoment  it  leaves  the 
it,  till  it  strike  the 
let  the  design  of  the 
it-shaft  is  seen  the 
Qg  it  through  the  air, 
jected.  All  confu- 
upou  the  mind  most 

)r ;  notice  the  mark ; 
aptation  of  the  truths 
i  of  the  man  of  God; 
he  invisible  heart  of 
f  he  cry  aloud,  as  in 
Having  traced  the 
to  tiie  cause,  the  sure 
IT  heart.  The  bitter 
le  outcries,  shall  then 
•ows  of  the  Almighty 
nketh  up  my  spirit ; 

1  array  agunst  me." 

i 

It  answer  which  some 
But,  if  you  have 
S8  and  good  humor,  I 
while  you  bear  the 
id  perish.  Acts  adii. 
TOWS  are  made  ready 
t  he  holds  the  errow 
>r  conviction  of  .  sin. 
iv,"  says  the  Fsalmistj 
to  death. 


AFJUMKNTS  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OF  HEVIVAL8.     241 

"  So'/oral  intelligent  persons  have  vacated  their  pe^«,  in 
couscquonco  of  your  fiury  style  of  prcr.ching."  That  I  am 
aware  of;  but  they  are  few  in  number.  Were  they  to  speak 
of  their  secret  henrts,  .as  freely  as  they  do  of  me,  I  nuiy 
venture  to  sa/,  th^iy  would  oont'esd  themselves  attached  to 
mns  sufScient  to  damn  them,  i  ere  they  to  die  in  them. 
They  know  it,  and  are  disturbed.  This  L  no  discredit  to  me 
among  the  anf^tls  of  (Jc-i,  the  spectators  of  this  conflict,  who 
are  filling  heaven  tjv:u  4«'cla'natiQn«  of  joy  over  repenting 
dinners. 

I  have  hoea  irany  sucli  janos ;  but  startling  &ot8  After- 
wards tixplii&ed  the  matter,  and  Jiave  cleared  the  preacher 
of  all  blame. 

"TiThy  so  pointed?  why  bo  severe?  You  will  suoceed 
just  as  T^ell  Tfith  softer  words."  To  this  I  reply,  words  are 
the  in8irumr>iiB  by  which  tbo  ^piTit  of  God  afiects  the  mind. 
Sharp  they  must  be,  and  powerful ;  if  like  a  two-edged 
sword,  they  piw-TQ  even  to  the  dividmg  asunder  the  soul  artd 
spirit,  the  jcifl:*  and  marrow ;  and  severdy  searchmg,  too, 
if  their  discernment  peuetrato  even  to  the  thoughts  and  tho 
intents  of  the  heart  Heb.  iv.  12.  An  old  divine,  quoting 
the  flaying  of  d  phyrician,  "  Soft  words  cure  no  wounds," 
added,  "  we  may  mow  trJy  say.  Soft  words  give  no  wounds, 
and  are  not  fit  for  the  service." 

Two  of  youT  conduditt^  sentiments  aro  worth  a  line  or 
two.  "  I  nover  com(;  but  there  is  a  storm  of  hell  and  dam- 
navion."  But  you  Jo  not  attend  every  nigbi ;  frequently, 
there  is  nothi^'g  of  the  kind.  Such  powerless  seasons, 
however,  cause  me  great  sorrow  of  heart;  J.  w^tuld  weep 
my  life  awa^  on  this  account,  were  it  not  for  the  ccif 
sideration,  that  quiet  sermons  may  be  necessary  for  oertaiik 
minds,  of  mild  tempeiament  and  kbdly  disposition.  The 
jailor  was  surprised  by  terror,  and  sprang  into  the  cell  of 
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242     ARGUMENTS  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OF  REVIVALS. 


Paul  and  Silas,  trembling,  and  fell  down,  saying,  "  Sirs, 
■what  must  I  do  to  be  saved  ?"  But  it  is  recorded  in  the 
same  chapter,  that,  "  The  Lord  opened  the  heart  of  Lydia," 
when  hearing  the  truth  of  God  by  the  river  of  Philippi. 
"  He  opened  Lydia's  heart  with  an  oiled  key,"  said  a  good 
man,  "  but  an  earthquake  waa  necessary  to  open  the  heart 
of  the  jailor." 

Who  dare  say,  that  these  two  styles  are  not  necessary  for 
respective  characters ;  or  even  that  the  same  kind  of  preach- 
ing is  always  suitable  to  the  same  individual  ?  If  you  are 
sent  on  the  earthquake  nights,  to  breathe  amidst  a  "storm  of 
hell  and  damnation,"  are  you  qiute  sure  you  do  not  need  such 
arousmg  elements  ? 

"  You  have  a  good  deal  of  brass  in  your  face,  if,  after  the 
repeated  hints  you  have  received  from  certain  quarters,  you 
do  not  disappear  from  the  town."  I  have  a  good  deal  of  love 
in  my  heart)  or  I  could  not  breast  my  difficulties ;  and  onu 
of  the  old  "  Scotch  worthies,"  (the  persecuted  Rutherford,) 
used  to  say,  "  Faith  is  the  better  for  free  air,'  and  for  the 
sharp  ndri^  storm  in  its  face  ?  " 

Not  tatiH.  I  meant  no  such  thing.  The  judgment  should 
be  addresscid  as  well  as  the  passions.  What  I  intend^,  and 
thought  plainly  stated,  was,  a  minister  of  Christ  should  ad- 
dress the  whole  man.  Appeals  to  the  passions  should  not  be 
made,  to  the  neglect  of  the  understanding,  nor  should  the 
intellect  be  engaged  while  the  passions  are  disregarded. 
Doubtless,  those  preachers  are  most  successful  who  um  at 
both.  Whether  I  fail  in  either,  others  must  judge.  Come  and 
hear  for  yourself  regularly,  and  without  prejudice.  Mark 
those  parts  of  the  sermon  which  speak  to  the  judgment,  and 
those  designed  for  the  passions,  and  you  may  possibly  find 
as  much  intended  for  the  former  as  for  the  latter.  But  ex 
pect  not  equal  proportions  in  all  the  sermons,  nor  mn  away 


REVIVALS. 


AR0TJMBKT3  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OF  REVIVALS.      243 


,  saying,  "  Sirs, 
is  recorded  in  the 
heart  of  Lydia," 
river  of  Philippi. 
ly,"  said  a  good 
0  open  the  heart 

not  necessary  for 
le  kind  of  preach- 
lal?  K  you  are 
midst  a  "storm  of 
a  do  not  need  such 

face,  if,  afber  the 
bain  quarters,  you 
I,  good  deal  of  love 
Iculties ;  and  one 
ited  Rutherford,) 
e  air,'  and  for  the 

i  judgment  should 
at  I  intend^,  and 
Christ  should  ad- 
ions  should  not  be 
;,  nor  should  the 
are  disregarded, 
essfnl  who  {dm  at 
judge.  Come  and 
prejudice.  Mark 
he  judgment,  and 
may  possibly  find 
latter.  But  ex 
ins,  nor  ran  away 


disgusted  after  a  moving  discourse.  Come  back  the  next 
night,  and  the  following ;  perhaps  you  may  observe  both 
matter  and  manner  in  the  opposite  extreme.  !£  so,  look  out 
for  another  "  storm,"  for  these  are  only  preparatory. 

Let  ua  not  disagree  where  we  are  really  agreed.  That 
"  the  judgment  should  be  informed  before  the  passions  are 
moved,"  I  allow.  This  is  a  good  general  rule,  but  the  min- 
ister who  is  laboring  for  souls,  is  often  the  beat  j  Ige.  If 
he  have  the  work  at  heart,  he  will  converse  with  hun- 
dreds of  his  hearers,  in  a  week  or  two,  and  be  able  to  form  a 
pretty  correct  estimate  of  their  intelligence,  and  suit  his 
preaching  accordingly.  Hence,  a  hearer,  especially  one 
who  is  only  present  once  or  twice  a  week,  is  far  from  being 
qualified  to  say,  how  such  a  man  should  preach  to  the  crowds 
who  surround  him.  In  very  many  cases,  the  feelings  must 
be  moved  before  we  can  have  access  to  the  judgment.  I 
cannot  enter  into  a  labored  argument  upon  this  point,  for  the 
want  of  time.  I  have  visited  many  towns  in  the  course  of 
my  travels,  where  a  revival  has  broken  out  suddenly.  Vast 
numbers  have  crowded  into  the  house  of  God,  out  of  mere 
curiosity.  Some  of  them,  "  Wild  as  the  untaught  Indian's 
brood."  Before  such  mmds  could  be  enlightened,  I  had  to 
gain  their  attention ;  but  this  was  impossible,  without  an  at- 
tempt to  "  rouse  their  passions,**  as  you  term  it,  by  these 
objectionable  appeals.  The  fear  of  that  great  aD<^  «jiread{ul 
God  whom  they  had  offended,  and  the  conscious  danger  of 
dropping  into  hell,  have  so  "  wrought  upon  their  feelings," 
as  to  impel  them  to  attend  to  the  things  which  yero  spoken. 
Dark  minds,  forced  by  an  aroused  conscience  u  listen  to  the 
truth,  became  enlightened,  and  soon  yielded  themselves  to 
God,  through  Jesus  Christ. 

I  recollect  an  instance  of  this  kind,  which  took  place  at  a 
camp  meeting  in  the  state  of  New  York.     A  very  wickfld 


.'naaiaiiBi 


244     ARGUMENTS  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OV  ftETITAU. 


poysician,  driven  on  by  the  devQ,  come  upon  Ae  ground. 
Day  after  day,  regardless  of  the  sanctity  of  the  place  and 
services,  he  d«spised  the  sons  of  God,  and  ridiculed  the 
\rhole  as  a  religious  farce.  His  mind  was  as  dark  as  that  of 
an  Indian  of  our  forests,  on  the  whole  subject  of  religion. 
I  was  present  the  night  he  was  struck  to  the  ground,  as  by 
a  fla«h  of  lightmng.  The  point  to  be  gained  wai  to  arrest 
his  attention  during  a  suflScient  length  of  time  to  make  an 
impression.  A  plain  young  man  one  night  chose  a  text, 
Rom.  vii.  11,  12 ;  and  instead  of  laboring  to  convince  the 
judgment,  he  thrust  directly  at  the  conscience.  Every  sen- 
tence had  a  dagger  point.  His  appeals  to  the  conscience 
were  absolutely  terrific.  The  woods  re-echoed ;  the  audience 
stood  aghast,  and  Christians  trembled  before  the  Lord  Crod 
of  hosts.  The  man's  attention  was  rivetted,  the  smile  of 
contempt  disappeared,  and  he  fell  to  the  ground  as  if  a  bul- 
let had  passed  through  lus  body.  Momir.g  had  not  dawned 
upon  that  grove,  before  tiie  results  astonished  all  who  were 
acqufunted  with  the  case. 

Several  years  ago,  a  few  reli^ous  people  and  others  were 
worshippng  God.  An  old  man  arose,  not  so  much  to  tell 
people  what  they  did  not  know,  as  to  nu^e  them  feel  all 
they  knew.  A  hardened  young  nnner  was  there,  while  the 
exhorter,  at  the  top  of  his  voice,  cried,  "  Sin  and  repent,  sin 
and  repent,  till  you  repent  in  the  bottomless  pit."  He 
afterwards  said,  that  the  word  entered  his  "heart  like  a  dag- 
ger." His  ''  passions  were  excited,"  but  an  arrest  was  Udd 
upon  his  attention.  During  five  weeks  God  poured  light  upon 
his  mind,  by  the  instructions  of  his  servants,  which  he  was 
^ad  to  receive,  wlule  sufieriing  the  agonies  of  a  wounded 
spirit.  At  the  end  of  that  time,  he  received  renusmon  of 
ans,  by  faith ;  ei\joyed  it  several  years,  and  then  died  happy 
in  God. 


__  i .  „. 


m 


RiyiYALS. 


AfiaUMENTS   WITH  THE   ENEMIES   OF  REVIVALS.      245 


pn  tiie  ground. 
i  the  place  and 
ul  riiUculed  the 
I  dark  as  that  of 
»jeet  of  reli^n. 
le  groond,  as  by 
ed  vas  to  arrest 
time  to  make  an 
lit  chose  a  text, 
to  convince  the 
ice.  Every  sen- 
>  the  conscience 
ed;  the  audience 
re  the  Lord  Crod 
ied,  the  smile  of 
ound  as  if  a  bul- 
;  had  not  dawned 
ed  all  who  were 

and  otliers  were 
>t  so  much  to  tell 
ke  them  feel  all 
i  there,  while  the 
in  and  repent,  mn 
iless  pit."  He 
heart  like  a  dag- 
tn  arrest  was  laid 
pom^d  light  upon 
ts,  which  he  was 
»  of  a  wounded 
ived  remismon  of 
then  died  happy 


!j 


**The  Eeal  of  some  men  is  of  a  haughty,  unbending,, 
ferocious  character,"  you  say.  "  They  have  the  letter  of 
truth,  but  they  mount  the  pulpit  like  prize-fighters.  It  is 
with  them  a  perpetual  scold.  It  is  not  the  spirit  of 
Jesus  Christ.  He  seems  to  have  labored  to  wm  men."  I 
never  scold ;  it  is  against  my  principles.  But  when  the 
love  of  Christ  constrains,  I  persuade  men  with  power  and 
divine  authority.  Call  this  ''  ferocious,"  if  you  please. 
But  I  happen  to  know  where  you  got  the  above  criticism. 
Why  did  you  not  add  the  passage  immediately  in  connection  ? 
I  shall  do  it  for  you.  **  But  there  is  an  opposite  extreme. 
The  love  of  some  men  is  all  milk  and  mildness.  There  is  so 
much  delicacy,  and  so  much  fastidiousness.  They  touch 
vrith  such  tenderness,  and,  if  the  patient  shrinks,  they  will 
touch  no  more.  The  times  are  too  flagrant  for  such  a  dispo- 
sition. The  gospel  is  sometimes  preached  in  this  way,  till  all 
the  people  agree  witb  the  preacher.  He  gives  no  offence, 
and  he  does  no  good."  This  is  what  another  calls,  "  A 
general,  soft,  and  toothless  ministry ; "  and  adds,  "  I  con 
fess  I  look  upon  nothing  more  dangerous  and  deadly." 

May  the  Holy  Spirit  teach  me  wherein  I  err! 

This  very  mormng  I  fell  in  with  the  following  lines,  which 
I  consider  the  best  answer  I  can  give.  It  would  seem  as  if 
they  had  been  written  expressly  for  yourself:  — 

"  PsrroU  thenuelvei  speak  properly  by  rote, 
And  in  six  months,  my  dog  shall  howl  by  note ; 
I  lengh  at  those,  who,  when  the  stage  they  tread, 
Neglect  the  heart,  to  compliment  the  head ; 
With  strict  propriety,  their  cares  confined  ".  ' 

To  weigh  ont  words,  while  passion  halts  behind  t 
To  syllable  dissectors  they  appeal. 
Alio w  the  accent,  cadence  —fodlt  may  feel ; 
But  spite  of  all  the  criticising  elves. 
Those,  who  would  make  us/eei,  nautfed  ihtim$thtt." 

You  have  stated  many  good  things,  but  I  have  neither  time. 
21- 


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246     ARQUMBNTS  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OP  REVIVALS. 

nor  inclination,  to  take  them  up,  one  by  one,  or  continue  the 
correspondence.   Compare  your  philosophy  with  what  followB. 
Each  sentiment  nught  he  a  proposition.     Carry  them  out, 
and  they  would  tear  your  arguments  to  ribbons.    "  Truth 
and  tytnpathy  are  the  soul  of  an  efficacious  ministry.    We 
'  may  say,  '  thit  or  that  is  the  aspect  which  ought  to  have 
most  efifect:  we  must  illuminate  the  mind;  we  must  enlist 
the  reason ;  we  must  attack  the  conscience.* "    "  We  may 
do  all  this,  and  yet  our  want  of  success  in  begetting  and 
educating  the  sons  of  glory,  may  demonstrate  to  us,  that 
there  is  some  more  eflfective  way.   Man  is  a  creature  of  feel- 
ing as  well  as  intellect.    We  must  mterest  them  as  we  can. 
It  is  unplulosophical  to  depend  on  the  mere  statement  of 
trufli.    The  armor  of  Saul  is  armor  for  the  camp  of  the 
Israelites,  or  in  the  camp  of  the  Philistines,  but  we  want  the 
ding  and  the  stone.     I  honor  metaphymcians,  lo^cians, 
critics,  and  historians,  in  th«r  places.    Lookatfects.    Men 
who  lay  out  all  their  strength  in  statements,  preach  churches 
empty.    They  fail  in  their  effects  on  thwr  hearers,  by  not 
entering  as  philosophers  into  the  state  of  hmnan  nature. 
They  do  not  consider  how  low  the  patient  is  reduced.    They 
set  themselves  to  plant  principles  and  prove  points,  when 
they  should  labor  to  interest  the  heart.    Few  men  have  wis- 
dom so  large  as  to  see,  that  the  way  they  have  not  hitherto 
attained,  may  yet  be  the  best  way.    I  daw  not  tell  most 
academical,  lopcal,  frigid  men,  how  littie  I  account  of  their 
opinion,  concerning  the  true  metJiod  of  joeafllung  to  the  pop- 
ular ear.   I  hear  them  talk  as  utteriy  ineompetent  judges." 
On  the  other  matters,  I  have  to  thank  you  for  your  candoi . 
But  have  you  never  read  the  little  story  of  the  "  irregular  " 
apple  tree  ?     A  gentleman  one  day,  when  passing  by  an 
orchard,  the  trees  cf  which  were  standing  in  regular  rows, 
noticed  one  quite  "  out  of  order."    He  hailed  tiie  owner, 


ilL 


iWM 


IBVIVALS. 

or  oontioue  tbe 
ithwhatfollowB. 
Carry  them  out, 
)bon8.    "  Truth 
I  ministry.    We 
1  ought  to  have 
-we  must  enlist 
»»>    «»We  may 
I  begetting  and 
rate  to  ns,  that 
creature  of  feel- 
them  as  we  can. 
ire  statement  of 
the  camp  of  the 
but  we  want  the 
iciaos,  lo^eians, 
Icat&ctB.   Men 
preaoh  churches 
p  hearers,  by  not 
'  humaoi  nature, 
reduced.    They 
)ve  points,  when 
iw  men  have  wis- 
ave  not  hitherto 
re  not  tell  most 
account  of  their 
ching  to  the  pop- 
apetent  judges." 
L  for  your  candoi . 
the  "  irregular  " 
n  passing  by  an 
in  regular  rows, 
ailed  the  owner, 


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ARGUMEITTS  WITH  THE  ENEMIES  OF  RKVITAI.8.      247 

saymg,  "What  a  pity,  Sir,  that  you  should  let  that  tree 
stand  tiiere ;  were  it  mine,  I  would  root  it  up,  and  thereby 
reduce  my  orchard  to  an  exact  uniformity."  "  I  regard  the 
Mat  rather  than  the  form,"  was  the  reply.  "  It  more  than 
compensates  for  the  inconvenience  arising  fipom  its  situ»'ion. 
This  tree  which  you  would  root  up,  hath  yielded  me  more 
than  many  of  those  trees,  which  have  little  else  to  coramead 
them,  thui  their  reffular  position." 

Are  you  quite  sure,  that  Jesus  Christ  would  not  give  you  a 
similar  reply,  were  you  bold  enough  to  carry  the  "  ol^'ectibn" 
to  him? 

Here  this  controversy  must  close.  I  have  other,  and 
better  work  on  my  hands.  Hundreds  of  tanners  are  tunung 
to  the  Lord.  Were  it  not  for  difficulties  over  which  I  have 
no  control,  botii  circuits  would  be  wrapt  in  the  flunes  of  sal- 
vation, and  many  more  nnners  converted  at  this  time.  The 
devil  fought  with  me  in  Dublin,  as  the  starting  point  of  my 
labom  in  Ireland;  but  my  trials  were  nearly  idl  mental. 
lAvwpool  is  « the  pass  "  into  England.  To  me  it  is  a  Thetu 
mopybs ;  but  Satan  has  changed  bis  mode  of  attack.  His 
entrenehmentB,  artillery,  and  agents  are  of  a  di^rent  kind. 
My  eye  is  i*igle.  There  is  pnidence  ocnmeeted  with  that, 
far  beyend  any  thing  worldly,  and  muoh  «»re  eflbctual.  The 
smglenesB  of  &e  mental  eye  is  a  noble  flttfegoard  against  the 
wsrpings  of  those  selfish  mterests,  which  ruin  a  man's  use- 
fulness, and  blight  the  work  of  God.  My  one  olject  is  tte 
salvation  of  lost  sinners.  This  sares  me  from  many  snares 
and  hurtful  temptations.  When  souls  at«  given  me,  I  am 
happy:  "  Then,  let  or  etoth  or  hell  aseafl."  ,v 

In  bidding  you  adieu,  I  indulge  the  charity  irtueh  **hopeth 
all  thingfi."  Although  you  have  used  some  hard  wovds,  not 
at  all  in  keeping  with  the  politeness  current  k  the  well- 
bred  world,  to  say  nothing  of  the  apostolic  h^ction,  "Be 


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248     AHaUMBNTS  WITH  THE  BNEMIES  OF  RBVIVAL8. 

courteoTifl ;"  yet  I  would  hope,  you  have  not «  set  aught  down 
in  maUce."    Rather,  that  the  sentimenta  of  a  good  man  now 
m  glory,  are  more  justly  applicahle.    "If  -v  man  look  at 
most  of  his  prejudices,  be  will  find  that  they  arise  fifom  his 
field  of  view  bemg  necessarily  narrow,  like  the  eye  of  a  fly. 
He  can  hare  but  UtU*  better  notions  of  the  whole  scheme 
of  things,  as  hw  been  well  said,  than  a  fly  on  the  pavement 
of  St.  Paul's  cathedral  can  have  of  the  whole  structure. 
He  is  offended,  therefore,  by  inequalities,  which  are  lost  in 
the  grand  design."    Think  of  the  foUowing  sentence,  it  may 
assist  you  to  more  prudence,  and  render  you  less  positive. 
«  This  persuasion  wUl  fortify  him  against  many  injurious  and 
troublesome  prejudices."     My  charity,  however,  need  not 
hinder  you  from 

"Turning  the  leaves  of  sacred  conscience  o'er, 
Kor  be  afraid  to  search  her  hidden  store." 
•  ••••• 

I  understand  perfectly  the  nature  of  these  petty  annoy 
ances.    Never  have  I  yet  been  in  any  great  revival,  without 
having  had  numbers  of  these  squibs  of  the  devil,  and  other 
fire-works  let  off  about  my  ears.    Seldom  have  they  ceased 
making  a  noise,  and  spitting  fire,  till  the  poor  creatures 
employed  by  the  author  of  evil,  (as  the  monkey  employed 
the  paws  of  the  cat,  in  dragging  the  eatables  out  of  the  fire,) 
get  converted  to  God;  or  till  the  revival  either  stop  or 
become  extremely  popular.    Sometimes  I  have  felt  it  my 
duty  to  sUence  Satan's  batteries,  by  the  superior  artillery 
of  the  gospel.   But  where  the  effect  has  been  no  other,  than 
to  keep  my  officers  awake,  and  to  stir  them  up  to  deeds  of 
noble  daring,  I  have  let  them  fire  nvay.    My  reply  in  such 
cases  has  been,  « I  am  doing  a  great  w&rk,  so  that  I  cannot 
«)me  down;  why  should  the  work  cease  whilst  I  leave  it, 
Rjul  come  down  to  you  ?"    Ncl;   n.  3. 


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revival,  mthout 
devil,  and  other 
lavo  they  ceased 
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lonkey  employed 
I  out  of  the  fire,) 
1  either  stop  or 
have  felt  it  my 
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an  no  other,  than 
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My  reply  ua  such 
,  so  that  I  cannot 
wlulst  I  leave  it, 


ARGUMBNTS  WITH  THB  BNEMIES  OF  RSVIVAL8. 

Having  a  few  momenta  on  my  hands,  it  is  not  improper, 
all  tlungs  considered,  to  send  you  a  short  answer. 

You  seem  to  be  a  sensible  man,  and  I  am  larprised  that 
you  meddle  with  what  it  u  evident  you  are  totally  ignorant 
of.  Were  I  to  enter  your  shop,  and  interfere  witih  your 
men,  and  attempt  to  f^re  orders  about  a  trade,  of  which  I 
know  just  nothing,  what  would  you  think  or  say  of  me  ? 
What  but "  he  is  a  foolish,  impudent,  meddlmg,  sel^ncoited 
coxcomb  V* 

Once,  during  a  glorioos  revival,  m  unconverted  lawyer, 
who  was  a  member  of  the  congregation,  set  himself  to  oppose 
me  and  the  Leaders.  A  judicious  friend  brought  him  to  his 
senses.  "  Suppose,  Sir,"  he  said,  "  am  individual,  who  had 
never  studied  law,  should  come  into  your  office,  and  begm  to 
find  fiiult  with  your  legal  proceedings ;  and  innst  that,  here 
after,  you  should  govern  yourself  by  his  directions,  how 
would  you  treat  his  impudence  ?  And  how  does  it  look.  Sir, 
for  you  to  be  dictating  to  an  experienced  miiuster  of  God, 
and  converted  and  intelligent  Leaders,  as  to  how  they  shall 
conduct  ttus  revival  ?" 

This  prompt  defencA  of  my  friend,  reminded  me  of  a 
classical  story.  When  Antony  carped  at  the  study  of  the 
civil  law,  acknowled^g,  at  the  same  time,  the  small  knowl- 
edge he  himself  had  therein ;  Sc»voIa,  a  great  lawyer,  smil 
ing  said,  that  "  he  had  tiutde  a  kind  of  atnendt  for  his 
invective  against  the  law,  by  profesring  his  ignorance  there- 
in." A  good  man  once  replied  to  a  sceptio :  « It  is  no 
disparagement  to  any  science  or  profession,  to  be  slighted  by 
such  as  understand  it  not."  p 

A  few  montiis  ago,  when  in  tiie  south  of  Irekuid,  a  zealous 
old  Christian  came  into  my  room,  saying,  "  ^r,  I  was 
ediorting  sinners  to  turn  to  Christ,  and  believers  to  cry  to 
God  fi)r  an  influence  from  above.    My  soul  was  very  happy, 


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250     ARGUMENTS  WITH  THB  ENEMIES  OF  REVIVALS. 

and  I  called  upon  God  to  send  doTrn  fire  from  heaven,  A 
poor  man  cried  out  with  great  emotion,  *God  forbid!'" 
They  understood  each  other  diflFerently.  The  old  saint  wanted 
the  fire  of  divine  love  to  descend  upon  the  hearts  of  the 
people ;  the  sinner  thought  he  was  calling  for  the  fire  of 
vengeance,  and  ventured  to  put  a  negative  upon  such  a 
request ;  —  entering  his  protest  agtunst  such  a  shower,  with 
a  "God forbid!" 

It  is  the  same  misunderstanding  of  spiritual  things,  which 
leads  you  to  exclaim,  "Blasphemy,"  in  a  lively  meeting. 
You  seem  as  ignorant  of  the  phraseology  necessary  to  a 
revival,  as  an  Indian  would  be  of  the  shouts  for  brick,  and 
stone,  and  mortar,  from  the  walls  of  a  building  in  the  course 
of  erection.  Nor  will  it  ever  be  otherwise  with  you,  till  the 
publican's  cry,  "  God  be  merciful  to  me  a  sinner!"  be  wrung 
from  your  agomzed  soul ;  or  till  the  first  five  verses  of  the 
one  hundred  and  third  psalm,  become  the  language  of  your 
newly  converted  heart.  In  hell  you  may  possibly  under- 
stand the  matter.  Theology  is  studied  ^here,  were  it  for 
no  other  purpose,  than  to  bum  into  the  loat  soul,  lessons  on 
the  justice  of  its  pumshment.  I  care  not  a  straw  for  your 
threatening.  Neither  you,  nor  any  sinner  in  Liverpool,  can 
do  me  any  injury,  unless  it  be  given  you  fixjm  above.  The 
will  of  God  be  done.  When  my  work  is  finished  in  England, 
I  shall  cheerfully  return  to  America.  He  can  open,  and 
no  man  can  shut,  and  he  can  shut,  and  no  man  can  open. 
I  thmk  it  is  Luther,  who  tells  us  of  a  certain  Duke  of  Sax- 
ony, who  determined  upon  war  agwnst  a  bishop  of  Germany. 
The  prelate,  instead  of  raJsing  a  military  force  to  defend  his 
town  and  territory,  gave  himself  to  prayer,  and  to  the  care 
of  the  church  of  God.  The  duke  sent  a  spy  into  the  com- 
pany of  the  bishop,  for  the  purpose  of  learmng  Ws  plan  of 
attack,  or  defence.    The  spy  returned,  and  the  duke,  with 


REVIVALS. 


ARGUMENTS   WITH  THE   EXEMIE3   OF  REVIVALS.      251 


rom  heaven.  A 
«God  forbid!'" 
I  old  saint  wanted 
le  hearts  of  the 
;  for  the  fire  of 
ve  upon  such  a 
h  a  shower,  with 

[lal  things,  which 
b  lively  meeting, 
necessary  to  a 
its  for  brick,  and 
ing  in  the  coarse 
with  you,  till  the 
imer!"  be  wrung 
ive  verses  of  the 
anguage  of  your 
^  possibly  under- 
jere,  were  it  for 
b  soul,  lessons  on 
a  straw  for  your 
in  Liverpool,  can 
pom  above.  The 
shed  in  England, 
e  can  open,  and 
o  man  can  open, 
in  Duke  of  Sax- 
ihop  of  Germany. 
»rce  to  defend  his 
,  and  to  the  care 
jpy  into  the  com- 
nung  his  plan  of 
d  the  duke,  with 


much  eagerness,  put  forth  his  inquiries.  *'  0  !  Sir,  was  the 
ropiy,  "you  may  surprise  him  without  fear;  he  is  doing 
nothing,  and  making  no  preparation."  "How  is  that?" 
inquired  the  duke,  «  what  does  he  say  ?"  "  He  says  he 
will  feed  his  flock,  preach  the  word,  visit  the  sick,  and  that 
as  for  this  war,  he  should  commit  the  weight  of  it  to  God 
himself."  "  Is  it  so  ?"  said  the  duke,  « then  let  the  devil 
wage  war  against  him,  I  wiU  not;"  and  added,  if  I  remem 
ber  aright,  "  It  is  a  hazardous  afiiur  to  attack  him,  who  has 
engaged  God  in  his  quarrel." 

There  is  a  lesson  here  for  me  and  thee,  and  for  all  parties 
concerned.  I  have  nothing  to  do  but  mind  God's  work,  nor 
shall  I  do  any  thmg  else ;  and  that  with  simplicity  and 
singleness  of  heart.  While  God  surrounds  me  with  a  crowd 
of  young  converts,  and  penitents,  and  unawakened  but  atten- 
tive sinners,  my  duty  is  plain.  Some  are  to  be  built  up  on 
their  most  holy  fdth,  others  are  to  be  converted,  and  vast 
masses  broken  down  into  sorrow  for  sin.  Her©  is  my  work, 
and  I  shaU  do  it  with  all  my  might,  by  the  grace  of  God. 
When  these  things  are  accomplished,  I  shall  disappear  from 
Liverpool,  and  they  may  see  my  face  no  more.  The  weight 
of  what  you  speak,  I  shall  commit  to  God  himself. 

In  the  dark  days  of  Protestantism,  in  this  country,  a 
trooper  rushed  into  a  church,  and  ordered  a  faithful  minister 
to  stop  preaching.  The  man  of  God  went  on  with  a  steady 
voice,  and  firm  countenance.  The  soldier  raised  a  pistol  to 
his  head,  and  threatened  hun  with  instant  death,  if  he  did 
not  desist.  «  Soldier,"  said  the  undaunted  minister  cahnly, 
« I  am  doing  my  duty,  you  may  do  yours ;"  and,  with  a  still 
more  exalted  voice,  proceeded  with  his  sermon. 

God  is  mine,  and  I  am  his.  This  is  settled;  and,  01 
what  a  paradise  is  this !  My  feelmgs  are  not  unUke  those 
of  a  Christian  lady  in  America,  who  said  to  me,  "  Brother, 


262     AEaUMBOTS  WITH  THB  mnOIILS  OF  REViyALS. 

I  feel  like  one  Bitting  ni.<jR  the  summit  of  a  higb  rock, 
who  can  scarcely  hear  t'ue  breakers  at  its  base."  The  man 
who  stands  on  ttie  top  of  a  lofty  tower,  2  Sam.  xxii.  2,  3, 
is  regardless  of  the  croaking  of  frogs  and  lussmg  of  serpents 
below.  What  cares  the  full  moon  for  the  barking  of  dogs  ? 
She  is  fixed  in  the  h«avend,  and  moves  on,  surrounded  by 
ber  attendant  stars. 


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86."  The  man 
^am.  xxii.  2,  3, 
sing  of  serpents 
jrking  of  dogs  ? 
Burrouuded  bj 


CHAPTER    XVI.  i 

INQUIHIES,  ANECDOTBS,  AKD  CLOSINa  LABOBS  IN  UVBBPOOIi. 

The  following  chapter  is  full  of  mterest.  It  abounds  ia 
fine,  pomted  anecdotes.  It  exhibits  the  opinions  formed  of 
Mr.  Caughey  by  lukewarm  professors  and  worldly  men.  It 
furnishes  an  example  to  those  ministers  whose  aims,  efforts, 
and  principles,  being  above  the  comprehension  of  a  carnal 
world,  call  forth  its  anger.  Mr.  Caughey  stood  firm  as  a 
"  Druid  rock  "  amidst  the  beating  waves  of  hostile  opinions. 
He  vanquished  his  foes  by  a  meek  perseverance  in  the  work 
of  God;  by  being  himself  unmoved,  while  his  foes  were 
excited  agdnst  him. 

His  replies  to  those  who  questioned  him  concerning  the 
secret  philosophy  of  his  revivals,  are  worthy  of  careful 
study ;  since  his  successful,  simple  philosophy,  is  withm  reach 
of  every  other  minister.  It  is  so  compendious  as  to  be 
easily  comprehended  and  as  easily  remembered.  That  it  ig 
the  true  philosophy,  will  appear  from  its  practical  working. 
In  five  months  at  Liverpool,  it  produced  tho  glorious  fruit  of 
a  THOOSAND  CONVERTS.  0,  that  every  reader,  and  especially 
every  mmister,  may  learn  well  and  truly  that  philosophy  ' 
aptly  comprehended  by  Mr.  Caughey  in  the  single  phnu. 
KNEE  wore! 

Yes !  in  such  cases  it  may  do  very  well.     We  may  maa 
age  those  infirmities,  as  did  the  painter,  when  taking  tho 
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portmit  of  hia  friend.     A  blemiah  happened  to  bo  in  one  of 
Ids  eyes,  hue  ho  concealed  the  defect  by  painting  the  other 
Bide  of  the  face.     This  was  a  delicate  stroke,  and  not  repre- 
hensible.    The  presence  of  the  deformity  was  not  absolutely 
necessary  to  a  correct  likeness,  in  a  certain  position.     And 
thus  it  may  be  sometimes  m  preachmg.    Innocent  and  una- 
voidable imperfections  are  not  needful  to  be  described.    Wo 
can  do  more  good  by  throwing  over  them  the  mantle  of  con- 
cealment.  No  principle  is  sacrificed,  by  taking  the  most  per- 
fect side  of  the  character  for  our  contemplation.    But  "  cir- 
oumstances  alter  cases."  Suppose  the  "  fraUtios"  are  sinful, 
and  known  to  the  public,  a  mimater  is  not  at  liberty  to  con- 
ceal or  excuse.  Principle,  the  good  of  others,  and  the  concerns 
of  a  deathless  soul,  are  concerned.   "  But  would  you  announce 
his  name  ?  "    By  no  means;  there  is  no  occasion  for  that ; 
nor  have  I  in  your  case.    I  would  draw  the  portrait  with  those 
Binfol  blemishes  in  it,  and  it  should  be  to  the  Ufe  too ;  so  that 
if  the  individual  be  known  to  the  congregation,  every  one 
may  discern  the  likeness,  and  avoid  the  example.    If  the 
failings  are  secret,  then  the  sinner  hunself  may  behold  hia 
deformed  features,  and  repent,  as  in  dust  and  ashes.    A 
certain  minister  was  in  the  act  of  sketching  such  a  character 
once.     A  poor  fellow  in  the  audience  looked  unutterable 
things,  gazing  all  the  time  with  intense  interest.     A  few 
more  touches  by  the  fiuthful  preacher,  and  the  likeness  was 
complete.    He  could  restrain  himself  no  longer,  and  cried 
out,  "  Name  me ! "  with  a  look  as  if  he  would  sink  through 
the'floor.    Did  you  feel  any  thing  like  this  on  the  night  in 
question?    0  man!  secure  such  a  character  upon  you,  by 
the  grace  of  God,  that  you  shall  not  be  ashamed  of  your 
picture  any  where.  ,  . 

You  say,  "  It  is  disgusting  and  horrible  for  any  mmister 
to  deacend  to  such  personalities.     It  is  mean ;  you  kn«w 


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to  bo  in  one  of 
iting  the  other 
,  and  not  repre- 
3  not  absolutely 
position.  And 
locent  and  una- 
iescribed.    We 

mantle  of  con- 
ig  the  most  per- 
on.  But "  cir- 
tios"  areaiuful, 
,  liberty  to  con- 
ind  the  concerns 
Id  you  announce 
^asion  for  that ; 
irtrait  with  those 
life  too ;  so  that 
ation,  every  one 
sample.  If  the 
may  behold  his 

and  ashes.  A 
iuch  a  character 
ked  unutterable 
iterest.  A  few 
the  likeness  was 
mger,  and  cried 
lid  smk  through 

on  the  mghtin 
er  upon  you,  by 
ashamed  of  your 

for  any  minister 
tean ;  you  kntw 


well  enough  that  what  you  said  could  apply  to  uono  ba  my- 
Bulf."     I  knew  nothing  vi  the  kind,  nor  any  th".  «.g  about 
you.     I  did  indeed  "  paint "  a  faoc  and  form,  with  a  pcculirr 
drapery,  and  so  like  your.rlf,  it  would  seem,  that  you  knew 
your  visage  and  garb ;  a:  d  now  you  must  wear  them  till  you 
piovide  yourself  with  eomcthing  better.     I  am  a.  innocent 
i-i  the  whole  afioir,  most  surely,  as  was  an  old  1/ <!aJ  Preacher 
of  my  acquPintanco  in  Amer'^ca,  simUarly  circumstanced. 
He  was  a  man  fvil  of  faith  ana   '  'Ho  Holy  Gh>it.  and 
much  people  were  added  to  the  Lard  .y  hi^  instrumentality. 
Preaching  on.s«j  in  ft  private  house,  which  wm  ivM,  a  certiuti 
characiw  '.m,6  up  suddenly  before  his  rrind.     TUs  he 
sketched  ddr/arably,  in  «  full  length."    A  mun  at  the  door 
became  greatly  agitated,  and  forgetting  ♦he  peculiarity  of 
his  sibution,  caUed  out  to  the  preaxshet,   "  Why  don't  you 
talk  to  some  of  the  rest,  and  not  to  me  aU  the  time ? "    "I 
did  not  luow  you  were  there,"  replied  the  good  man,  «  but 
if  the  coat  suit  vou,  put  it  on  and  wear  it,  and  be  thankful, 
and  I  shafl  try  U-  at  Bon>e  of  the  rest."    Ah !  Sir,  if  thei« 
>va3  more  of  such  preachicg,  irien  could  nc*  frequent  our 
congregations,  nor  appkud  the  minister,  and  Uve  at  the 
same  time  in  gross  vice.     No,  no  \     They  would  either 
alisent  themselves  from  the  hearing  of  the  searohmg  truth, 
or  get  converted  to  God.    The  abcee  fact  is  bo  appUcabb  to 
yoursolf,  there  is  no  need  for  comcoonts. 

«'  TherT  were  other  offensive  reraaiks,  which  I  know  applied 
to  others,  even  Weslayans ;  but  such  vulgar  descriptions 
should  never  be  brought  into  the  pulpit."  I  cannot  agree 
with  you  there.  If  people  are  "  vulgar  "  enough  to  commit 
such  things,  the  miviiatcr  of  Go  1,  rather  than  have  the  blood 
of  soulg  found  in  his  skirts,  nvsi  reprove  boldly,  even  at  the 
risk  of  being  charged  with  vulgarity.  "Reproofs  of  this 
kind  should  always  be  given  in  private."    You  amuse  me 


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Take  the  following  incident  as  my  reply :  An  eminent  man, 
since  gone  into  eternity,  once  publicly  reproved  a  certain 
class  of  men  with  whom  he  was  associated.  Stung  by  hia 
pointed  remarks,  they  complained  of  his  imprudence  and 
severi^^y,  adding,  "  You  shoidd  have  done  this  privately,  and 
in  Latin."  He  replied,  "  When  you  transgress  privately 
and  in  Latin,  I  will  rebuke  you  privately  and  in  Latin ;  but 
when  publicly  and  in  English,  I  shall  rebuke  you  publicly 
and  in  English."  While  upon  this  part  of  your  letter,  I 
must  remind  you  of  the  saying  of  a  zealous  mimster  of 
Christ,  some  years  ago,  which  it  is  not  unlikely  you  have 
read.  He  preached  one  day,  very  pointedly,  against  those 
sins  which  prevail  among  the  wealthy.  A  nobleman  being 
present,  left  the  house  of  God  much  out  of  humor,  and  scut 
his  servant  to  the  minister,  with  this  message :  *'  Sir,  you 
have  oflFended  my  lord  to^ay."  The  noble  reply  was,  "  I 
should  not  have  oifended  your  lord,  except  he  had  been  con- 
scious to  himself  he  had  first  offended  my  Lord ;  and  if  your 
lord  will  offend  my  Lord,  let  him  be  offended."  Do  you  not 
think  the  following  to  be  applicable  to  your  case  ?  A  cer> 
ttun  kni^t,  in  the  days  of  Cromwell,  entered  a  charge  against 
a  faithful  preacher,  to  this  effect,  that  he  was  *'  preached  at 
in  church."  What'  was  Cromwell's  advice  ?  "  Go  home, 
Sir  John,  and  hereafter  live  in  good  friendship  with  your 
minister.  The  word  of  the  Lord  is  a  searching  word,  and  I 
am  afraid  it  has  found  you  out." 

You  are  certainly  mistaken.  M  Vun  ni  V autre,  "  Neith- 
er the  one  nor  the  other."  No  human  being  has  told  me  a 
single  word  about  you.  I  have  no  dou!- 1;  it  was  the  Spirit  of 
God,  which  led  my  mind  to  those  points,  which  tuvn  out  to 
be  facts.  Beware  how  you  blame  any  one.  God  is  in  'ju : 
your  sins  have  found  you  out.  It  is  a  mere  trick  of  the 
devil^  to  charge  *  *  •  with  it,  or  anyone  else.    Satan knowa 


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Aq  emioent  man, 
reproved  a  certain 
«d.  Stung  by  hia 
s  imprudence  and 
this  privately,  and 
•ansgress  privately 
and  in  Latin ;  but 
ibuke  you  publicly 
t  of  your  letter,  I 
lalous  minister  of 
unlikely  you  have 
edly,  against  those 
A  nobleman  being 
>f  humor,  and  scat 
jssage  :  "  Sir,  you 
ble  reply  was,  "  I 
t  he  had  been  con- 
Lord  ;  and  if  your 
led."  Do  you  not 
ur  case  ?  A  cer- 
ed  a  charge  against 
waa  "preached  at 
ce  ?  "  Go  home, 
endship  with  your 
rchmg  word,  and  I 

i  V autre,  "Neith- 
eing  has  told  me  a 
it  was  the  Spirit  of 

which  tuvQ  out  to 
le.    God  is  in  li: 

mere  trick  of  tlie 
)lse.    Satan  knows 


there  is  no  readier  way  to  irritate  your  mind,  and  destroy  the 
impression,  than  to  impute  the  afiair  to  some  "  tattling  busy- 
body," instead  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  who  knows  all  about  you. 
[  would  not  take  pains  to  send  you  the  following,  in  the  min- 
ister's own  words,  but  for  a  desire  to  counterwork  the  de- 
signs of  the  enemy  of  your  soul :  — 

"  I  was  once  applied  to  by  a  stranger,  in  a  place  where  I 
was  laboring  for  a  few  Sabbaths  only,  for  a  sight  of  a  letter 
which  I  had  received  calumniating  his  character.  I  looked  at 
the  man  and  pitied  him,  and  coolly  replied,  '  It  would  be  a 
breach  of  the  common  principles  of  society,  to  show  confi- 
dential letters  written  to  us  for  the  purpose  of  our  doing  peo- 
ple good.'  He  retorted  in  an  angry  tone,  *  I  demand  a  sight 
of  it.  Sir,  aa  an  act  of  justice  due  to  an  injured  man.'  I  re- 
plied, *  How  did  you  know  that  I  have  received  a  letter  con- 
cerning you  ? '  '  Know ! '  said  he,  *  it  was  impossible  not  to 
know  it ;  your  language  and  manner  were  so  pointed,  that  it 
was  impossible  I  should  be  deceived.'  I  rejoined,  '  Do  not 
be  too  positive  ;  you  have  been  deceived  before  now,  I  sup- 
pose ;  you  may  be  so  again.'  '  It  is  not  possible,'  said  he  ; 
*  you  described  the  sin  of  which  I  am  accused  in  the  clearest 
language  ; '  and,  looking  me  in  the  face,  and  pointing  to- 
wards me,  you  said,  '  Sinner,  be  sure  your  sms  will  find  you 
out ;  I  therefore  expect  from  you,  Sir,  as  a  genAman  and  a 
Christian  nunister,  that  you  will  give  me  a  sight  of  the  let- 
ter, that  I  may  know  its  contents  and  repel  its  charges.'  I 
observed,  *  I  do  not  know  your  name ;  to  my  knowledge  I 
never  sa^  you  before  ;  and  as  you  have  not  told  me  in  what 
part  of  the  sermon  it  was  i  ^aa  so  pointed,  if  I  show  you 
any  letter  I  may  show  you  the  wrong  one ;  I  shall  therefore 
certainly  not  esdubit  any  of  my  letters  to  you,  nor  satisfy  you 
whether  I  have  received  any  one  about  you,  till  you  describe 
the  case  alluded  to.'    He  hesitated,  but  afterwards  described 


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the  sin  of  which  he  was  accused.  When  he  had  finished, 
looking  him  full  in  his  eyes,  assuming  a  solemn  attitude,  and 
using  a  grave  and  serious  tone  of  voice,  I  said, '  Can  you 
look  me  fall  in  the  face,  as  you  must  your  Judge  at  the  great 
day  of  God,  and  declare  that  you  are  innocent  of  the  sin 
laid  to  your  charge  ? '  He  trembled,  turned  pale,  and  his 
voice  faltered ;  guilt  and  anger  struggling  in  his  breast,  like 
the  fire  in  the  bowels  of  Mount  ^tna,  and  summoning  up 
his  remaining  courage, — 'I  am  not  bound  to  make  any  man 
my  confessor ;  and  if  I  were  guilty,  no  man  has  a  right  to 
hold  me  up  to  public  observation,  as  you  have  done.'  I  as- 
sumed a  benignity  of  countenance,  and  softened  my  tones, 
saymg,  *Do  you  beUeve  the  passage  I  cited — be  sure  your 
sins  will  find  you  out  — is  the  word  of  God  ? '  He  answered, 
*It  may  be.'  '  Surely  it  is,'  said  I;  'he  that  made  the  ear, 
shall  he  not  hear ;  he  that  made  the  eye,  shall  he  not  see ; 
can  he  have  any  diJBculty  in  bringmg  your  sin  to  light  ? 
Now  I  will  tell  you  honestly,  I  never  received  any  letter  or 
information  about  you  whatever ;  but  I  am  persmided  your 
sin  has  found  you  out ;  the  preaching  of  the  word  is  one 
method  by  which  God  makes  men's  uins  find  them  out.  Let 
me  entreat  you  seriously  to  consider  your  state  and 
character ;  who  can  tell,  God  may  have  intended  tUs  sermon 
for  your  go^ ;  he  may  mean  to  have  mercy  upon  you ;  this 
may  be  the  means  of  saving  your  body  from  the  gtdlows,  and 
your  soul  from  hell ;  but  let  me  remind  you,  you  are  not 
there  yet ;  ttiere  still  is  hope.'  He  held  down  his  head, 
clenched  his  hands  one  into  the  other,  and  bursting  into  tears, 
said,  '  I  never,  never  met  ^th  any  thing  like  this ;  I  am  cer- 
tainly obliged  to  you  for  your  fiiendship ;  I  am  guilty,  and 
hope   this  conversation  will  be  of  essential  advantage  to 


me. 


> » 


A  little  moro  than  two  years  ago,  I  was  preaching  in  an 


>**ntoMaiRiB«»iai 


.^^ 


>0L. 

1  he  had  finished, 
emu  attitude,  aud 
I  said, '  Can  you 
Judge  at  the  great 
inocent  of  the  sin 
ued  pale,  and  bis 
in  his  breast,  like 
id  summoning  up 
to  make  any  man 
tan  has  a  right  to 
ave  done.'  I  as- 
jftened  my  tones, 
3d — be  sure  your 
f '  He  answered, 
hat  made  the  ear, 
,  shall  he  not  see ; 
jTOur  sin  to  light  ? 
ived  any  letter  or 
a  persuaded  your 
the  word  is  one 
d  them  out.  Let 
your  state  and 
3nded  this  sermon 
jy  upon  you;  this 
n  the  gallows,  and 
you,  you  are  not 
id  dcifn  his  head, 
rarsting  into  tears, 
ke  this ;  I  am  cer- 
[  am  guilty,  and 
tial  advantage  to 

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259 


American  tovra.  A  merchant  was  there,  and  during  the  ser- 
mon his  portndt  was  so  correctiy  drawn,  that  he  left  the 
house  in  a  rage.  Next  day,  he  was  going  to  wreak  his  ven- 
geance upon  a  shoemaker,  whom  he  suspected  to  be  the  in- 
former. The  poor  man  protested  that  he  had  never  men- 
tioned his  name  to  me,  nor  had  he  related  a  single  circumstance 
to  any  pci'!5on,  connected  with  his  history. 

It  is  rather  amusing,  that  this  very  morning,  a  good  lady 
called  upon  me,  lamenting  m  bitter  terms  the  treachery  of 
her  enemies ;   weeping,  as  if  her  heart  would  break ;  re- 
proaching me,  at  the  same  time,  with  the  meanness  of  my 
conduct,  in  exposing  her  before  the  whole  congregation.    I  en- 
treated her  to  exilain ;  and  when  she  had  attained  sufficient 
composure,  reminded  me  of  a  sermon  I  had  preached  on  a  cer- 
tain mght,  in  wluch  I  had  described  her  character.    Poor  wo- 
man, her  likeness  had  been  so  "  strikiug"  that  it  had  nearly 
thrown  her  into  a  state  of  frenzy.  The  malice  of  her  neighbors, 
and  my  ungentlemanly  behavior  in  the  pulpit,  descencKng 
to  such  personalities,  and  daring  to  drag  her  before  such  mul- 
titudes, were  unbearable.    In  order  to  relieve  the  distressed 
woman,  I  had  to  call  God  to  witness,  that  no  person  had  ever 
sud  a  word  about  her  to  me,  in  any  way  whatever ;  and  that 
I  had  no  recollection  of  having  ever  seen  her  before.    What 
her  after  reflections  were,  I  know  not,  but  it  is  to  be  hoped, 
she  has  this  day  leame*?.  a  lesson,  which  may  be  an  eternal 
blessing  to  her. 

Take  care,  then,  my  dear  Sir,  of  what  you  are  about,  lest 
you  may  find  yourself  fighting  against  God.  He  always 
warns  before  he  sbikes,  and  ^ves  repeated  blows  ere  tiie 
final  one  is  inflicted.  Repent,  man ;  the  last  stroke  is  coming, 
and  the  longer  tiie  swing,  the  more  tremendous  it  will  be 
when  it  comes.  There  is  little  of  man  in  this  busiaess.  The 
wammg  is  from  Heaven ;  it  has  been  delivered  faithfully, 


'^  n 


<-;)  ill 

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and  has  found  a  lodgiaent  in  your  conscience.      Attend  to 
it ;  but,  0,  do  not  quarrel  with  me ! 

"  When  God  supportg,  who  then  can  cast  ns  down  ? 
His  smiles  are  life,  but  death  attends  his  frown." 

Ludicrous  as  the  following  may  appear,  your  conduct  bears 
to  it  an  exaot  resem'    ace.    I  remember  nothmg  better  as 
an  illustration.    A  iew  years  ago,  in  the  vicinity  of  an 
American  town,  (the  scene,  by  the  way,  of  a  part  of  my 
labors  in  the  ministry,)  the  circumstance  which  follows  oc- 
curred.   It  was  related  to  me  as  a  fact,  by  a  man  of  veraci- 
ty.   Near  the  town  was  a  canal,  along  the  bank  of  which, 
a  fellow  was  one  day  walking,  when  a  thunder  cloud  came 
rolling  up.    A  sudden  flash  of  lightning,  attended  by  a  peal 
of  thunder,  startled  him ;  and  about  the  same  moment  he 
received  a  stunning  blow.     It  appears  the  lightning  had 
struck  very  near  him,  and  a  powerful  electric  shock  was  the 
result.    He  was  probably  within  a  hair's  breadth  of  losing 
his  life.    But  instead  of  considering  the  concussion  as  arising 
from  the  violence  of  the  lightning,  he  suspected  some  one 
had  strack  him  with  a  stone.    Determimng  upon  vengeance, 
he  scrambled  around  for  a  weapon,  and  seizing  a  large  clod 
of  hard  earth,  he  fixed  his  body  in  a  certain  attitude,  and  his 
arm  in  a  proper  position,  and  waited  for  his  supposed  enemy  to 
peep  from  behind  the  abutment  of  the  bridge  over  the  canal, 
that  he  might  repay  him  for  his  treachery.    Nobody  appear- 
ing, he  became  thoughtful,  mistrusted  the  cause,  and  threw 
down  the  clod  ;  the  nunble  lightning  had  disappeared,  and 
the  source  of  its  power  was  too  high  for  his  revenge.     Job 
xzviii.  26, 

But,  can  you  see  no  resemblance  of  yourself  here  ?  Why 
this  menacmg  attitude  against  your  humble  servant  ?  If  the 
truth  of  God  has  reached  your  heart;  if  facts,  of  which  1 


.  m-. 


* 


)0L. 

ice.     Attend  to 


down? 
own." 

}ur  conduct  bean 
lothing  better  as 
le  vicinity  of  an 
>f  a  part  of  my 
Yhich  follows  oc- 
a  man  of  veraci- 
B  bank  of  which, 
ider  cloud  came 
tended  by  a  peal 
lame  moment  he 
e  lightning  had 
ic  shock  was  the 
>readth  of  losing 
mssion  as  arising 
>ected  some  one 
upon  vengeance, 
ng  a  large  clod 
attitude,  and  his 
pposed  enemy  to 
!  over  the  canal, 
Nobody  appear- 
BLuse,  and  tiirew 
iisappeared,  and 
revenge.     Job 

elf  here?  Why 
3rvant?  If  the 
cts,  of  which  1 


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2G1 


am  not  the  author,  have  struck  you  into  remorse,  am  I  to  be 
Dlamed  ?  Yours  is  the  fault,  for  having  prepared  yourself, 
by  a  course  of  sin,  to  be  thus  astounded  by  the  truth  of  God. 
Those  convictions,  wh)ch  have  blazed  across  your  mind,  have 
had  a  higher  origin  than  man.  You  have  received  a  shock 
from  Heaven — the  Holy  Spirit's  lightning-stroke ;  you  should 
thank  God  you  were  not  struck  into  hell.  And  yet,  like  the 
man  stunned  by  the  lightning,  you  impute  it  to  a  fellow 
creature.  If  you  dare  not  retaliate  with  blows,  you  have  re- 
sorted to  very  hard  words.  Pai-don  my  again  alluding  to  the 
above  incident ;  but  there  is  a  moral  in  it.  Missing  a  stone, 
he  grappled  a  clod,  and  though  bones  would  not  have  been 
broken,  yet  he  might  have  insulted  an  innocent  person, 
for  which  a  humiliating  apology  would  have  been  demanded. 
When  in  Ireland,  last  June,  one  of  the  preachers  related 
the  following,  in  which  I  was  much  interested.  A  certain 
preacher  was  holding  forth,  in  a  certain  place,  and  he  de 
scribed  the  character  of  a  sinner  present,  so  strikingly,  that 
he  concluded  the  irinister  was  pointing  him  out,  knowing  him 
to  be  there.  The  next  night  he  concealed  himself  in  a  cor- 
ner, where  he  was  sure  the  preacher  could  not  see  him.  The 
preaching,  however,  was  as  personal  as  ever,  and  his  feelings 
so  correctly  delineated,  that  there  could  be  no  mistake, — he 
had  been  detected.  The  succeeding  night,  he  secreted  his 
person  where  there  could  be  no  possibility  of  being  seen.  It 
was  of  no  use ;  daring  the  sermon,  the  voice  of  the  servant 
of  God  fell  upon  his  ear  like  thunder :  "  Sinner !  come  out 
of  your  lurking-place ;  thou  art  the  man ! "  "  Ah !  well,"  he 
thought,  "  what  avails  it  ?  Somebody  has  been  telling  the 
stranger  all  about  tho  ;  but  I  shall  not  leave  till  I  know  who 
the  vagabond  is,"  Aiu-.f  preaching,  he  stepped  forward, and 
boldly  inquired  »?  tag  minister  who  it  was  that  had  beeu 
"  after  telling  such  things "  about  him.    "  I  have  notlung 


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1 


against  your  honor,"  and,  doubling  his  fist,  he  declared  what 
he  would  do  to  "  the  rascally  informer."  "  My  friend,"  said 
the  other,  "  no  human  being  has  told  me  any  thing  about 
you  ;  but  the  Spirit  of  God  has."  Conviction  at  that  mo- 
ment fastened  upon  his  heart,  and  he  rested  not  till  he  foimd 
salvation.  I  believe  he  is  yet  alive,  and  on  his  way  to 
heaven. 

You  say, "  Your  preaching  would  sting  and  terrify  a  devil." 
Well,  you  know,  it  is  written,  "  The  devils  also  believe  and 
tremble."  Is  it  any  wonder  then,  that  the  truth  has  af- 
fected you,  as  it  is  to  be  hoped  you  are  of  a  softer  material? 
It  reminds  me  of  what  Eupolis  said  of  Pericles  —  "  After  his 
orations  to  the  people  of  Athens,  it  was  found  he  had  left 
certain  needles  and  stings  in  their  minds."  I  should  be 
ashamed  of  the  doctrines  of  Christianity,  if  they  could  not 
accomplish  more  than  the  politics  and  philosophy  of  Pericles. 
You  are  a  witness,  that  the  gospel  is  the  same  now  as  in  tho 
days  of  St.  Peter,  "  when  thousands  were  pricked  in  their 
heart,  and  inquired,  Men  and  brethren,  what  shall  we 
do  ?  "  Acts  ii.  37.  But  on  that  very  day  their  wounds  were 
healed  by  faith  in  that  blood  which  they  had  shed  on  Calvary, 
and  about  three  thousand  sovils  were  added  to  the  infant 
church.  You  are  quite  out  of  humor  with  a  sentiment  in  my 
last,  but  I  shall  repeat  it.  God  never  strikes  before  he  warns. 
It  is  remarkable  in  the  dealings  of  God  with  sinners,  how 
close  he  keeps  to  that  Erection  given  through  Moses  to  the 
armies  of  Israel  —  "  When  thou  comest  mgh  unto  a  city  to 
fight  against  it,  first  offer  conditions  of  peace."  "  It  was  on 
this  great  principle  Noah  was  sent  to  the  old  world,"  says  an 
old  divine;  "Moses  and  Aaron  to  Egypt,  Lot  to  Sodom, 
Jonah  to  Ninevah,  and  the  prophets,  and  even  Christ,  to 
Jerusalem."  God  has  establis'.ed  this  order  in  nature. 
Winter  is  always  preceded  by  the  cltiUing  breath  of  autumn 


^■^ifTT^i 


POOL. 

it,  he  declared  what 
"  Myfriend,"  said 
le  any  thing  about 
Lvictiou  at  that  mo- 
ted  not  till  he  found 
nd  on  his  way  to 

and  terrify  a  devil." 
ils  also  believe  and 

the  truth  has  af- 
r  a  softer  material  ? 
ricles  —  "  After  his 
i  found  he  had  left 
is."  I  should  be 
,  if  they  could  not 
osophy  of  Pericles, 
same  now  as  in  tho 
3re  pricked  in  their 
'en,  what  shall  we 
y  their  wounds  were 
ad  shed  on  Calvary, 
Ided  to  the  infant 
h  a  sentiment  in  my 
kes  before  he  warns. 

with  sinners,  how 
rough  Moses  to  the 
mgh  unto  a  city  to 
ace."  "  It  was  on 
old  world,"  says  an 
ypt,  Lot  to  Sodom, 
md  even  Christ,  to 

order  in  nature. 
;  breath  of  autumn 


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263 


and  seared  leaves,  and  withered  flowers.  Evening  shades,  or 
twilight,  before  dark  night.  Thunder  never  bursts  over  our 
heads  in  a  clear  sky.  "  Clouds  are  his  chariots,  and  light- 
nings his  steeds."  The  volcano  grumbles  long  and  loud- 
ly, with  many  fitful  gleams,  and  much  smoke,  ere  it 
bursts  forth  to  overwhelm  vineyards  and  towns  at  its  base. 
The  hurricane  is  often  heralded  by  startling  changes  in  nar 
tore,  and  those  who  are  observing,  prepare  for  its  fury. 

There  is  a  bitter  storm  approaching  you  ;  a  wing  of  it 
sweeps  you  already.  Strike  'lil,  man,  before  its  entire 
weight  bursts  upon  your  \mhappy  soul.  A  smooth  sea  and 
fair  appearances  do  not  always  deceive  tho  experienced  eye 
of  the  sailor.  The  ocean  may  look  like  a  standing  pool,  with 
scarcely  a  ripple  upon  its  surface ;  yet  there  is  trouble  in  the 
oflfing,  and  tiie  top  and  top-gallants  are  lowered;  in  fact 
there  is  little  left  but  naked  spars,  to  struggle  with  the  first 
sudden  rush  of  the  tornado. 

God,  my  dear  Sir,  has  given  you  a  warning ;  prepare  for 
the  blow.  It  is  surely  coming.  Is  it  not  written,  "  Woe 
unto  him  that  striveth  with  Ids  Maker?"  Who  can  deny 
those  striking  sentiments  of  a  guo-i  snan  ?  '•  There  is  no 
contending  with  sovereignty ;  no  resbting  omuipotenoy :  ^o 
striving  with  our  Maker.  The  fish  that  ss  caught  with  tho 
hook,  the  more  he  jerks  and  flings,  the  faster  hold  the  hook 
takes  of  hun.  The  harder  a  man  kicks  against  the  pricks, 
the  deeper  they  enter  into  his  heels.  An  earthen  pitcher, 
the  more  forcibly  it  ie  dashed  against  an  iron  pot,  the  sooner 
is  flies  in  pieces.  In  like  manner,  the  more  we  contend  with 
God  and  his  judgments,  the  more  we  hurt,  wound,  and,  in 
the  end,  destroy  ourselves.  Be  not  like  the  dog  that  bites 
the  stone,  never  looking  upon  luin  that  flings  it.  Ma  k  him 
who  {ums  at  you,  and  has  hit  you ;  and  say  with  David,  '  I 
was  dumb,  and  opened  not  my  mouth,  because  thou  didst  ii' 


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264 


CLOSING  LABORS  IN  LIVERPOOL. 


Or  cover  your  mouth  with  Job ;  '  Behold  I  am  vile,  what 
shall  I  answer  thee  ?  I  will  lay  my  hand  upon  my  mouth. 
Once  have  I  spoken,  but  I  will  not  answer ;  yea  twice,  but 
I  will  proceed  no  farthsr.'  Job  xl.  4.  Have  you  read  of 
the  philosopher,  who  was  censured  for  not  holding  out  his  aa> 
gument  with  Adrian,  the  emperor  ?  His  apology  was,  '  Is 
it  not  reason  to  yield  to  him,  who  hath  thirty  legions  at  his 
command  V  God  is  terrible  out  of  his  holy  places.  Legions 
innumerable  are  ready  to  avenge  his  quarrel.  He  could 
look  you  into  the  grave,  or  into  hell,  in  a  moment.  '  Be- 
cause there  is  wrath,  beware  lest  he  take  thee  away  with  his 
stroke.'  Job  xxxvi.  18.  Yield,  man!  Discontinue  tho 
controversy.  He  would  have  doomed  you  to  destruction 
long  ago,  but  for  a  strong  desire  to  save.  You  have  an  Ad- 
vocate above.  He  died  for  you,  and  lives  to  intercede.  His 
blood  speaketh  better  things  than  the  blood  of  Abel.  Fly  I 
fly  to  the  cross !  and  plead  for  pardon  through  the  merits  of 
that  atoning  blood.  There  is  mercy  implied  in  all  these  wam< 
mgs.  Appeal  from  the  bar  of  justice,  to  the  throne  of  God'd 
grace.  There  is  a  dispo8itio^^.  there  to  favor  your  cause. 
God  looks  graciously  from  thence  ;  a  Mediator  is  there,  and 
your  Judge  is  disposed  to  be  kind  through  him.  What 
would  a  criminal  do,  suppose  ye,  if  he  should  notice  an  in- 
clination  to  mercy  in  his  judge  ?  Would  he  remain  listles3 
with  such  an  advantage  before  him,  or  fail  to  urge  his  friends 
to  entreat  for  his  life  ?  Why  not  say  with  penitent  Austin, 
*  Why  do  I  still  procrastinate  my  combg  ur*o  thee,  0  Lord  ? 
Why  not  now  ?  Why  not  this  day  ?  Why  should  there  not 
be  this  hour  an  end  of  my  sinful  course  of  life  ? ' " 
•  ••••• 

Your  first  inquiry  amuses  me.  "  Will  you  let  me  into  the 
secret  philosophy  of  these  revivals?"  Yes,  with  all  my 
heart! 


u 


■Wl' 


RPOOL. 

old  I  am  vile,  what 
md  upon  mj  mouth, 
ver ;  yea  twice,  but 
Have  you  read  of 
ot  holding  out  his  ar- 
lis  apology  was,  'Is 
I  thirty  lemons  at  his 
oly  places.  Logons 
quarrel.  He  could 
1  a  moment.  '  Be- 
:e  thee  away  with  his 
i!  Discontinue  tha 
I  you  to  destruction 
.  You  have  an  Ad- 
es  to  mtercede.  His 
loodofAbel.  Fly! 
hrough  the  merits  of 
lied  in  all  these  warn* 
)  the  throne  of  God's 
0  favor  your  cause, 
[ediator  is  there,  and 
hrough  him.  What 
should  notice  an  in- 
old  he  remain  listless 
'ail  to  urge  his  friends 
inth  penitent  Austin, 
g  ur*o  thee,  0  Lord  ? 
ll\Tiy  should  there  not 
of  life?"' 

U  you  let  me  into  the 
Tes,  with  all  my 


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266 


"  Are  you  aware  that,  in  some  circles,  your  continued  suc- 
cess is  the  subject  of  various  speculations  ?  "  I  do  not  ques- 
tion it ;  this  is  a  tax  which  persons  in  my  situation  must 
pay. 

"I  have  been  present  when  your  powers  of  mind  have 
been  discussed."  Better  they  had  been  employed  upon 
something  more  profitable. 

"  Much  was  said  of  your  peculiar  tact  for  conducting  re- 
vivals ;  one  called  it  a  kind  of  a  witchery  over  the  feelings 
of  the  people  ;  another  questioned  your  motives,"  etc.  I 
have  become  hardened  to  such  animadversions.  A  sinner, 
when  I  was  at  Bandon,  in  Ireland,  fled  from  the  chapel,  say- 
ing, "  He  is  enough  to  frighten  a  fellow  out  of  his  senses ;  he 
must  have  been  the  very  devil  himself  before  he  took  to  this 
way,  or  he  could  not  tell  a  man  all  he  has  been  guilty  of." 
A  few  nights  since,  a  good  lady  left chapel,  exclaim- 
ing, "  The  man  is  a  wizard ;  there  is  nothing  in  one's  heart 
that  he  does  not  blab  out."  I  hope  she  will  have  no  rest 
till  converted  to  God. 

"  Your  sermons  have  been  canvassed,  taken  to  pieces, 
analyzed,  compared  with  those  of  other  ministers,  and  pro- 
nounced far  inferior;  but  the  results  seemed  to  stumble 
them."  So,  if  I  have  much  to  humble  me,  there  is,  after 
all,  something  to  encourage.  My  humble  success  is  owing 
to  an  influence  above  and  beyond  their  criticisms.  A  minis- 
ter once  came  to  hear  the  late  Mr.  William  Dawson  preach. 
After  sermon,  in  a  neighboring  house,  he  spoke  of  the  won- 
derful effects  produced  by  Mr.  D.'s  preaclung,  and  wished 
that  he  could  accomplish  the  same  by  his  pulpit  efforts. 
"Ah,  Sir !"  said  the  lady  of  the  house,  "you  must  move 
the  hand  of  Him  that  moves  the  world,  before  you  can  wit- 
ness these  effectiu"  The  "power  of  the  Holy  Ghost"  ro- 
<!<Hnpanymg  hard,  patient,  steady,  constant  labc~,  Tnth  many 
23 


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266 


CLOSING  LABORS  IN  LIVERPOOL. 


tears,  and  nmch  crying  to  God  in  private,  have  produced  the 
"  results "  which  are  so  mysterious  to  those  of  whom  you 
speak.  Knee  work!  knee  work!!  knee  work!!!  This  is 
tlie  secret. 

"  My  powerful  groans  thon  canst  not  bear, 
Nor  stand  the  violence  of  prayer, 
My  prayer  omnipotent  1 " 

"  Give  me  a  revival,  convert  smners,  or  I  pine  away  and 
die,"  is  a  cry  that  is  much  thought  of  in  heaven ;  nor  will 
He  who  pities  the  groanings  of  the  distressed  soul,  treat  it 
Avith  indiflference.  He  will  come  down  out  of  the  holy  place, 
and  make  bare  his  arm  in  the  sight  of  all  the  people ;  wound 
the  dragon  and  cut  Rahab  in  pieces.  Then  shall  the  feeblest 
servant  of  God  often  thresh  the  mountains,  and  beat  the  hills 
to  chaff;  one  shall  chase  a  thousand,  and  two  put  ten  thou- 
sand to  flight,  and  the  slain  of  the  Lord  shall  be  many.  Let 
any  minister  (who  has  not  mistaken  his  call)  thus  plead  with 
God,  while,  week  after  week,  every  night,  from  a  full  and 
bleeding  heart,  he  pours  the  burning,  pointed  truths  of 
the  gospel,  mto  the  ranks  of  sinners ;  and,  whatever  may 
be  his  talents,  he  shall  be  a  joyful  witness  of  a  glorious  re- 
vival. 

As  to  the  "getting  up"  of  my  sermons,  you  will  find  the 
history  of  the  affair  in  a  lesson  I  once  received  from  an  old 
divine.  "I  desire  my  sermons  to  be  like  Monica's  son; 
children  of  many  prayers  and  tears,  and  thereby  the  more 
unlikely  to  perish.  Let  all  your  sermons,  as  dew,  be  heaven- 
bom,  that  they  may  drop  down  like  rain  upon  the  mown 
^ass.  Let  prayer  be  the  key  to  open  the  mysteries  of 
Christ  to  you ;  and  let  prayer  be  the  turning  of  the  key,  to 
lock  them  up  safe  within  you.  Let  prayer  open  and  shut  all 
four  books ;  form  and  write,  and  be^  and  continue  every 
Bormon.    Ah !  how  should  he  pray  both  before  and  after 


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have  produced  the 
hose  of  whom  you 
work!!!    This  is 

i)ear, 


r  I  pine  awaj  and 
I  heaven ;  nor  will 
essed  soul,  treat  it 
t  of  the  holy  place, 
the  people ;  wound 
n  shall  the  feeblest 
,  and  beat  the  hills 
two  put  ten  thou- 
ball  be  many.  Let 
ill)  thus  plead  with 
t,  from  a  full  and 
pointed  truths  of 
id,  whatever  may 
8  of  a  glorious  re- 

,  you  will  find  the 
Beived  from  an  old 
ke  Monica's  son; 
thereby  the  more 
as  dew,  be  heaven- 
1  upon  the  mown 

the  mysteries  of 
ing  of  the  key,  to 
■  open  and  shut  all 
dd  continue  every 

before  and  afier 


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267 


his  preaching,  who  by  every  sermon  preaches  his  beloved 
neighbors  into  eternal  burnings  or  eternal  pleasures  ?  " 

The  *'  serious  objections  "  of are,  indeed,  of  weight. 

They  remind  me  of  what  Pliny  the  Younger  reported  of 
Egypt ;  that  she  boasted  of  owing  nothing  to  th*;  clouds,  or 
any  foreign  streams,  for  her  fertility,  being  abundantly 
watered  by  the  sole  inundations  of  her  own  river,  the  Nile. 
It  becomes  mo,  as  a  stranger,  to  say  the  same  of  England. 
God  has,  indeed,  greatly  enriched  her  with  the  streams  of 
salvation.  It  may  seem  presumption  for  a  wandering  clouu 
like  mo  to  think  of  adding  any  thing  to  the  mighty  river  of 
religious  knowledge,  which  meanders  through  this  country  in 
all  direcrions.  May  I  not,  however,  comfort  myself  with  the 
reflection,  that  many  a  thirsty  spot  has  been  refreshed  by  a 
sprinkling  from  a  cloud,  wafted  from  afar  ?  I  trust  that 
many  in  Liverpool  do  know  that  the  stranger  does  not 
resemble  that  which  is  mentioned  by  St.  Jude,  "  A  clcud 
without  water." 

In  conclusion,  the  opinions  of  the  other  parties  weigh  quite 
as  light  with  me,  as  any  thing  enumerated  by  the  ancient 
poet: — 

«  My  soul,  What's  lighter  than  a  feather  ?    Wind. 
Than  wind  7    The  fire.    And  what  than  fire  ?    Moonshine. 
What's  lighter  than  moonshine  ?    A  thought    Than  thought  7 
This  bubble  world.    What  than  this  bubble  7    Nought." 

Mr.  Caughey  now  resumes  his  brief  notices  of  the  revival 
in  Liverpool. 

We  have  had  "  protracted  meetings  "  in  two  other  chapels 
on  the  South  Circuit :  Mount  Pleasant,  and  Wesley  chapel, 
Stanhope  street.  The  former  is  a  small  bmlding,  in  which 
we  had  a  good  work,  though  I  did  not  enjoy  such  freedom  in 
preaching  there  as  elsewhere.  At  the  Stanhope  street 
chapel,  the  word  of  the  Lord  had  free  course,  and  was  glo 


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rified.  Hero  my  soul  enjoyed  groat  liberty,  and  many 
Biimcrs  were  converted  to  God.  Although  I  had  some  tril)- 
ulation  to  endure,  yet  so  long  as  no  man  had  power  to  shut 
the  door  of  usefulness,  I  labored  on  with  joy  and  success. 
Tliis  is  the  chapel,  in  which  my  kind  host  and  hostess,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Banning,  worship ;  and  I  found  a  large  portion  of 
the  congregation  possessed  of  the  same  elevated  and  enlight- 
ened views  of  the  work  of  God,  with  which  their  souls  are 
animated.  During  my  stay  in  this  jhapel,  more  than  three 
hundred  sinners  obtained  remission  of  sins,  through  faith  in 
the  blood  of  the  Lamb.  The  last  night  wo  spent  there,  we 
had  a  select  meeting  for  the  now  converts,  and  it  was  a  most 
affecting  time.  Scores  of  sinners  came  forward  at  the  close 
to  be  prayed  for,  and  a  few  were  saved.  My  mind  was 
greatly  oppressed  at  leaving  this  chapel  for  another  part  of 
the  town ;  but  the  aspect  of  circumstances  clearly  pointed 
out  my  path. 

.  Ah !  I  can  carry  myself  with  "  ease  and  indifference " 
towards  a  thousand  things  that  are  trying,  when  they  have 
no  connection  with  the  salvation  or  damnation  of  precious 
souls.  However,  what  sorely  pained  me,  was  overruled  for 
the  "  furtherance  of  the  gospel."  A  poor  man  was  once 
heard  to  say,  that  he  was  once  rich,  and  had  learned  some- 
thing of  God ;  that  he  prayed  continually  for  "  a  closer  walk 
with  God."  "  But  at  first,''  said  he,  "  when  God  began  to 
answer  my  prayers,  I  thought  he  was  going  to  destroy  me  ; 
he  deprived  me  of  every  tiling  I  had ;  but  he  gave  me  what 
was  of  infinitely  more  value,  even  to  know  more  of  himself 
and  Jesus."  And  thus  my  narrow  nund  mourned  over 
surrounding  difficulties,  when  the  Lord  was,  by  these  means, 
leading  me  to  see  some  of  the  richest  displays  of  the  power 
of  God,  in  another  part  of  the  same  vineyard. 
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Circuit,  kindly  invited  me  to  return  and  spend  a  few  weeks 
among  the  people  of  his  charge.  But  at  this  time,  the 
Welsh  Methodists  also  insisted  upon  having  a  claim  upon 
part  of  my  services,  and  gave  me  a  hearty  invitation  to  visit 
their  chapels.  I  questioned  the  propriety  of  the  step,  but 
the  following  arguments  of  a  few  friends  removed  my  objec- 
tions :  "  First,  these  Welsh  chapels  are  under  the  control  of 
our  Wesleyan  Conference,  and  from  that  body  the  congrega- 
tions receive  their  preachers,  who  minister  to  the  people  in 
the  Welsh  language.  Secondly,  the  chapels  are  in  the 
neighborhood  of  those  you  have  already  visited  on  the  South 
Circuit.  Thirdly,  although  they  are  accustomed  to  hear 
preaching  in  Welsh,  they  understand  enough  of  English  to 
make  it  a  medium  for  a  blessing  through  your  ministry. 
Fourthly,  many  of  the  wounded  sinners  you  are  leaving  at 
Wesley  chapel,  will  follow  you,  and  get  healed  among  the 
Welsh  Methodists."  Events  soon  proved,  that  they  were 
not  wrong  in  their  calculations  on  this  point. 

Many  of  the  English  leaders  and  local  preachers  accom- 
panied me,  and  after  sermon,  united  vigorously  in  prayer, 
for  an  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  As  the  services  pro- 
grossed,  we  discovered  that  the  Welsh  brethren,  though  full 
of  love  and  zeal,  had  the  disadvantage  of  not  bemg  able  to 
pray  fluently  in  English.  It  was  proposed  that  the  Welsh 
ministers,  with  their  leaders,  should  pray  in  Welsh,  alter- 
nately with  the  English  brethren.  The  plan  answered  admi- 
rably. Very  soon  the  power  of  Grod  was  displayed  in  the 
conversion  of  sinners.  When  the  English  leaders  prayed, 
the  responses  were  mostly  confined  to  the  English  Metho- 
dists ;  but  the  moment  a  Welsh  brother  began,  the  scene  and ' 
sounds  among  the  people  were  entirely  changed.  With 
uplifted  hands,  and  voices  indicating  the  deepest  emotion, 
(bey  responded  to  the  ardent  supplications  of  their  leader ; 
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the  EngUflh  Christians,  m  the  mean  time,  remwning  in  solemn 
alence,  but  breaking  out  at  intervals  with  an  "  amen,"  or 
"  glory,"  as  the  inflections  of  the  leading  voice,  or  the  amena 
of  the  Welsh,  resembling,  "ifear,  Uar,  hear,"  indicated, 
until  the  feeling  became  so  overpowering,  that  restraint 
seemed  impossible,  and  a  general  burst  of  "  Glory  be  to 
God!"  from  the  Englifih,  mingled  with  the  loud  hallelujahs 
of  the  Welsh. 

1  This  was  especially  the  case  when  their  minister,  the 
B^v.  •  •  •  *  *  *>  prayed.  He  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
eloquent  and  powerful  speakers  among  the  Welsh  preachers. 
He  is  a  man  of  fine  natural  ;a  ^  ers,  richly  cultivated,  and  is 
deeply  devoted  to  God.  Hia  voice  has  considerable  compass 
and  sweetness,  and  capable  of  the  most  moving  intonations. 
I  speak  now  of  his  exercises  m  his  native  tongue.  He 
appeared  ^vute  indisposed  to  engage  in  English,  altiiough  in 
private  he  converses  in  it  rather  fluently.  Whenever  he 
began  to  pray,  I  felt  my  whole  being  arrested.  His  voice 
arose  into  what  appeared  to  be  a  succession  of  climaxes,  and 
as  one  sentence  climbed  above  another,  the  congregation 
ascended  with  him,  until  the  effects  were  really  overpower- 
ing; and  when  he  came  to  the  loftiest  point,  — \^hen  every 
thing  of  the  highest  importance  to  man's  eternal  interests 
seemed  as  if  tottering  upon  the  rugged  pinnacle  of  some 
tremendous  precipice,  —  the  tears  which  streamed  down  his 
manly  face,  and  the  long,  loud,  and  heart-rending  cries  of 
Welsh  smners,  mingling  with  the  subdued  tones  of  imploring 
believers,  told  those  of  us  who  could  not  understand' his  lan- 
guage, where  he  had  landed  them,  and  how  profoundly  awful 
were  the  effects  upon  their  minds.  Several  of  the  English 
brethren  told  me,  that  though  stirangers  to  the  import  of  hia 
words,  they  felt  their  hearts  a^tated  .with  the  most  singular 
and  powerful  emotions.    Many  were  the  saved  of  the  Lord  j 


Mi|A«Mi«Wft««yp-H-- 


POOL. 

renuuning  in  solemn 
th  an  "  amen,"  or 
voice,  or  the  amens 
,  hear"  indicated, 
ing,  that  restraint 
t  of  "  Glory  be  to 
the  loud  hallelujahs 

their  minister,  the 
}red  one  of  the  most 
le  Welsh  preachers. 
ly  cultivated,  and  is 
onsiderable  compass 
moving  intonations, 
lative  tongue.  He 
j)nglish,  although  in 
tly.  Whenever  he 
ixrested.  His  voice 
ion  of  cUmaxes,  and 
r,  the  congregation 
re  really  overpower- 
wint, — v-'hen  every 
I's  eternal  mterests 
d  pinnacle  of  some 
1  streamed  down  his 
art-rending  cries  of 
id  tones  of  imploring 
)  understand'  his  lan- 
low  profoundly  awful 
ireral  of  the  English 
to  the  import  of  his 
th  the  most  singular 
s  saved  of  the  Lord ; 


id*. 


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but  to  what  extent  wo  shall  never  know,  till  that  great  day 
when  Immanucl  comes  to  gather  home  his  jewels. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Farrar,  and  his  colleagues  in  the  ministry, 
together  with  the  leaders  and  local  preachers  of  the  BniDS- 
wick  chapel,  becoming  pressing  in  their  solicitations,  that  I 
should  return  to  the  circuit,  and  hold  a  few  meetings  in  the 
above  place  of  worship,  we  reluctantly  concluded  the  services 
among  the  Welsh.  The  Brunswick  chapel  is  an  elegant 
building,  with  an  imposmg  front,  adorned  with  columns,  and 
stands  on  a  fine  anu  elevated  situation.  The  interior  is 
handsomely  fitted  up  in  the  form  of  an  amphitheatre,  one  tier 
of  seats  rising  above  another  to  a  considerable  height,  with- 
out any  gallery,  with  the  exception  of  two  small  wings  behind 
the  pulpit,  to  the  right  and  left  of  the  orchestra  and  organ. 
It  seats  about  seventeen  hundred,  but  twenty-three  hundred 
can  be  crowded  into  it. 

Various  opinions  were  circulated  in  town,  respecting  the 
results  of  revival  efforts  in  this  chapel.  Many  wealthy  fam- 
ilies worship  here,  and  the  general  character  of  the  congre- 
gation is  serious  and  intelligent.  ''  We  shall  see,"  said  the 
speculators,  "  how  revivals  will  go  on  among  the  aristocracy 
of  Methodism."  The  prevailing  opinion  was,  that  as  they 
had  long  been  considered  the  opponents  of  noise  and  excite- 
ment, a  failure  would  be  the  unquestionable  result.  Blessed 
be  God,  such  speculations  and  prophecies  have  como  to 
nothing.  Never  have  I  labored  with  more  freedom  and 
delight  in  any  congregation,  or  with  greater  success,  than  in 
the  Brunswick  chapel.  There  was  little,  if  any,  of  that 
mean  and  secret  opposition  I  have  met  with  elsewhere. 
When  there  was  a  burst  of  noise,  attended  with  a  good  deal 
of  what  is  considered  revival  confusion,  they  bore  it  with  a 
noble  generosity,  and  a  forbearance  that  did  them  honor. 
Men  and  women  of  mind,  education,  a:id  influence,  retained 


^      \ 


-  '-mim^utt 


f"l  WrtV-t -WtTUl* 


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their  seats  in  solemn  awe.    They  saw  the  distress  of  smner-, 
and  sympathized  with  them,  and  how  pecuUarly  the  mini 
ters  and  leaders  were  situated ;  often  taking  our  part,  saying 
«  We  do  not  see  how  the  meetings  could  be  managed  better, 
if  the  revival  is  to  go  on  at  aU.   The  congregation  is  increa* 
mg,  the  society  enlarging,  classes  are  bemg  filled  with  con- 
verted sinners  from  the  world.    That  we  needed  such  a 
visitation  a«  tins  is  qmte  plain,  whatever  the  residte  may  be , 
and  we  shall  neither  run  away  from  this  astonudnng  move 
ment,  nor  shaU  we  oppose  it."  ,       ., 

It  is  right,  however,  that  credit  should  be  ^ven  where  it 
is  due.  I  am  convinced,  that  the  noble  conduct  of  many 
influential  individuals  and  famiUes,  has  imbibed  a  most  g^a- 
cious  influence  from  the  position  taken  by  heir  excellent 
Superintendent  and  his  worthy  colleagues.  These  se-an^^ 
of  God,  in  pubUc  and  private,  acknowledge  and  defend  ^e 
revival  and  great  an  is  their  popularity,  cheerfiilly  and 
generously  off^  me  their  pulpits,  and  every  c(^operation 

^S:kn;T^tweek,  forty  professed  conversion;  and 
during  the  next,  forty-four.  The  revival  is  stiU  progressmg 
gSsly  m  BruZick  chapel.  Many  have  been  saved 
;'L  a^ew  days  past.  I  have  been  pi^achmg  to  ^ 
young  the  last  two  mghts,  and  the  word  of  the  Lord  has 
had  free  course,  and  is  glorified. 

The  Temperance  cause  in  Liverpool  is  P«>ge^">g-  I 
have  deUverd  several  lectures  in  the  Music  Hall,  on  the 
p^priety  of  total  abstinence  from  all  intoxicating  hquors ;  a 
C  niber,  each  night,  joined  the  Tee-tota^  Society.  A 
3neeting  kas  been  ^ven  by  the  tee-totallers,  "to  cde- 
bL  the  arrival"  of  your  friend  in  En^and.  The  a&ir 
Z  got  up  in  a  most  tasteful  and  spirited  manner ;  and  I 
Z  Sic  pLure  of  taking  tea  with  about  seven  hundred 


IPOOL. 

B  distress  of  sinnert, 
peculiarly  the  nuni  • 
ing  our  part,  saying. 
.  be  managed  better, 
igregation  is  increa* 
eing  filled  with  con- 
,  we  needed  such  a 
■  the  results  may  be ; 
lia  astonishing  move 

lid  be  given  where  it 
ble  conduct  of  many 
imbibed  a  most  grar 
m  by  their  excellent 
;ues.  These  servants 
ledge  and  defend  the 
arity,  cheerfully  and 
d  every  co-operation 

ised  conversion;  and 
?al  is  stall  progressing 
my  have  been  saved 
een  preaching  to  the 
rord  of  the  Lord  has 

ool  is  progressing.  I 
le  Music  Hall,  on  the 
intojdcatiag  liquors ;  a 
Tee-total  Society.  A 
tee-totallers,  "  to  cele- 
i  England.  The  aflfeir 
ipirited  manner ;  and  I 
i  about  seven  hundred 


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278 


persons  in  the  Music  Hall.  The  company  was  highly  respect- 
able. After  tea,  several  excellent  addresses  were  delivered. 
One,  especially,  by  a  Wesleyan  mmister,  the  Rev.  Georgo 
B.  Macdonald,  of  Leeds,  was  most  eloquent  and  convincbg. 
In  the  present  age,  a  minister  deprives  himself  of  a  great 
moral  power,  when,  for  the  sake  of  a  little  wine  now  and 
again,  he  excludes  himself  from  such  fine  opportunities  of 
scattering  the  eternal  truths  of  God,  among  a  mass  of  mind 
which  otherwise  he  could  never  reach.  Mr.  Macdonald  told 
some  thrilling  anecdotes,  which  had  a  direct  tendency  to 
awaken  sinners  to  the  concerns  of  eternity.  I  have  no 
doubt  great  good  was  done. 

Here  follow  some  opimons  concerning  a  nervous  person, 
of  whom  Mr.  Caughey's  correspondent  had  written.  These 
sudden  digressions  grow  naturally  out  of  an  epistolary  style, 
although  they  embarrass  an  attempt  at  consecutive  narrative 
with  such  materials. 

I  had  almost  forgotten  the  case  of  ••**•• .  There  is 
a  close  connection  between  the  body  and  the  mind,  and  they 
always,  more  or  less,  exert  a  mutual  influence  upon  each 
other.  "  The  web  of  life,"  says  one,  "  the  soul  and  body,  are 
strangely  and  mtimately  interwoven  with  each  other,  and  a 
reciprocal  influence  is  constantly  exerted.  The  system  acta 
upon  the  mind,  and  the  mind  upon  the  system."  I  apprehend, 
however,  that  Mr.  •  •  •  •  •  'a  trouble  has  ori^ated  from  a 
source  that  he  is  not  willing  to  allow;  that  is,  the  separation 
of  his  soul  from  close  and  intimat;e  communion  with  God. 

I  was  much  struck,  when  reading  Lord  Nelson's  Life,  with 
the  account  he  gives  in  one  of  his  private  letters,  of  the 
secret  unhappiness  of  his  heart  when  almost  at  the  height 
of  his  glory.  "  There  is  no  true  happiness  in  this  life ;  and 
in  my  present  state,  I  could  quit  it  with  a  smile.     Believe 


s;?  : 


I-. 


j,iimj>»  \iitmv1l>ia^tmmi'kt*it*m-mim 


1'  ■. 


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OLOSINO  LABORS  IN  LIVERPOOL. 


me,  my  only  meh  is  to  sink  with  honor  to  the  grave.  Not 
that  I  am  insensible  to  the  honors  and  riches  my  king  and 
country  have  heaped  upon  me,  so  much  more  than  any  officer 
could  deserve ;  yet  I  am  ready  to  quit  this  world  of  trouble, 
and  envy  none  but  those  of  the  estate,  mx  feet  by  two." 

How  true  is  the  language  of  the  poet,  and  it  is  applicable 
to  every  unconverted  sinner ;  nor  shall  it  ever  be  otherwise, 
till  the  soul  finds  rest  in  God :  — 

"  In  all  our  plentjr,  something  still, 
To  thee,  to  me,  to  him  is  wanthig ; 
That  crael  something  nnpoesessed, 
Corrodes  and  cankers  bU  the  rest. 
And  even  while  fashion's  brightest  arts  decojr. 
The  heart,  distrasting,  asks  if  this  be  joy." 

The  record  of  the  experience  of  one  now  Ues  upon  my 
table,  who  represents  himself  as  the  gayest  of  the  gay,  when 
mingling  m  the  night  scenes  of  revehry,  faaluon,  and  song; 
but  in  the  midnight  hour,  when  lighter  hearts  are  lost  in 
sleep,  his  depression  is  so  great,  that  "  this  sweet  oblivious 
antidote"  flies  from  his  couch.  Morning  comes,  and  the 
snule  is  assumed,  and,  like  the  expiring  eagle,  he  covers  his 
wounds  by  the  wings  of  a  fancied  gayety.  "  There  is  not  a 
bles^ng  springs  upon  my  path,  but  mildew  covers  it;  nor 
a  flower  that  blooms  there,  that  does  not  wither  and  die. 
Although  gray  hairs  have  not  silvered  my  head,  yet  my 
hopes  are  dead,  and  now  in  my  prime,  I  must,  it  is  most 
likely,  smk  to  my  grave,  with  an  icy  chilliness  rife  at  my 
heart.    ♦  My  Kfe  is  steered  by  nusery's  chart.' " 

"  Thus,  thongh  the  smiles  of  oheerfblneM 
May  hide  from  sight  an  aching  heart, 
They  cannot  make  its  misery  less, 
Nor  bid  the  frown  of  fate  depart 
And  thongh  no  tears  bedow  the  eye, 
Nor  outward  signs  of  grief  appear, 
The  brain  may  bam  withont  a  sigh. 
The  heart  may  break  without  a  tear." 


tiiJlililMiiiiiiifci.giilWiBis*  i,,^'. 


IRPOOL. 

to  the  grave.  Not 
riches  my  king  and 
more  than  any  officer 
this  world  of  trouble, 
six  feet  by  two." 
b,  and  it  is  applicable 
it  ever  be  otherwise, 

itiU, 

itlngt 

eued, 

reat. 

ghtest  arts  decojr, 

r  thii  b«  joy." 

ae  now  lies  upon  my 
^est  of  the  gay,  when 
y,  fashion,  and  song ; 
;cr  hearts  are  lost  in 
''this  sweet  oblivious 
ming  comes,  and  the 
;  eagle,  he  covers  his 
sty.  "  There  is  not  a 
aUdew  covers  it;  nor 
>  not  wither  and  die. 
ed  my  head,  yet  my 
le,  I  must,  it  is  most 
ohillmess  rife  at  my 
i  chart.' " 

eerftalncM 
g  heart, 
leaa, 
irt. 
leeye, 

ktlgh. 
»t«»r." 


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276 


As  to  the  opinions  of  the  pliysician,  respecting  Mr.  *  *  *, 
it  would  be  perhaps  bold  iu  me  to  contradict,  but  I  shall  take 
the  liberty  to  transcribe  a  few  thoughts  of  Mr.  Wesley  upon 
the  subject,  which  you  may  let  him  see  when  convenient. 

"  When  physicians  meet  with  disorders  which  they  do  noc 
understand,  they  commonly  term  them  nervotu;  a  word  that 
conveys  to  us  no  determinate  idea,  but  is  a  good  cover  for 
learned  ignorance.  But  these  are  often  no  natural  disorders 
of  the  body,  but  the  hand  of  God  upon  the  soul,  being  a 
dull  consciousness  of  the  want  of  God,  and  the  unsatisfac- 
toriness  of  every  thing  here  below.  At  other  times,  it  is  a 
conviction  for  sin,  either  in  a  higher  or  lower  degree.  It  is 
no  wonder  that  those  who  are  strangers  to  religion  should 
not  know  what  to  make  of  this ;  and  that  coasequently  all 
their  prescriptions  should  be  useless,  seeing  they  quite  mistake 
the  cause." 

As  to  amusements,  I  reqmre  to  know  to  what  kind  yon 
refer,  in  order  to  give  an  opinion.  We  should  never  indulge 
in  any  which  would  unfit  us  for  taking  pleasure  in  God,  or 
from  which  we  could  not  retire  for  private  prayer,  vrith  a 
good  conscience.  An  old  divine  says,  "  Like  skilful  mari- 
ners, we  may  make  use  of  the  side-wind  of  recreation,  to 
help  us  toward  the  haven  of  rest."  When  a  boy,  and  about 
to  make  a  clever  jump,  I  have  often  retired  backward  a  few 
steps,  in  order  to  accelerate  my  velocity ;  and  frequently, 
the  farther  back  I  went,  the  more  **  way"  I  had  upon  me, 
as  a  sailor  would  express  it,  and  strength  and  agility  for  the 
intended  leap.  I  have  many  times  returned  to  study  with 
greater  vigor,  and  Uj  the  bosom  of  my  God  with  increased 
delight,  after  a  short  relaxation  amidst  the  flowers  of  poetry, 
or  those  of  the  garden ;  in  music,  in  cheerful  conversation 
with  a  few  friends,  a  ramble  through  the  fields  and  woods, 
a  tag  at  the  oar,  or  an  hour  in  fellowship  with  ^e  spade) 


~'u,ii»»Jlll(IM<toHi 


i*. — ^ 


276 


«LOBINa  LABORS  IN  LIVBRPOOL. 


the  axe,  or  the  hammer.  A  friend  of  mine  has  often  nsii 
in  my  hearing,  "  Better  wear  out  shoes  than  sheets.  £xer- 
me  is  a  part  of  my  religion ;  I  take  it  from  principle,  be- 
cause  I  am  bound  to  take  care  of  my  body  as  itell  as  my 
soul ;  and  I  rei.  ember  what  Cicero  says :  « For  man  is  not 
chiselled  out  of  the  rook,  nor  hewn  out  of  the  oak ;  he  has  a 
body,  and  he  has  a  soul ;  the  one  is  actuated  by  the  mteUect, 
tiie  other  by  the  senses.' 

*  Better  gather  health  in  fields,  nnbonght, 
Than  fee  the  doctor  for  a  nauseous  draught. 
The  wise  for  onre  on  exercise  depend  ; 
Ood  nerer  made  his  work  for  man  to  mend.' " 

«  A  life  of  inaction,"  says  a  writer,  "  is  a  disuse  of  talents, 
and  a  perversion  of  inteUect ;  and  our  leisure  days  are  the 
enemy's  busy  ones."  I  remember  two  proverbs,  one  used 
by  the  Turks,  and  the  other  by  the  Spaniards.  "  A  busy 
man  is  troubled  with  but  one  devil,  but  the  idle  man  with  a 
thousand."  "Men  are  usually  tempted  by  the  dcvU,  bu. 
the  idle  man  positively  tempts  the  devil." 

"The  idle  man,"  says  one,  "soon  becomes  torpid,  and 
resembles  the  Indian  in  his  feelings,  insensibly  adopting  his 
maadm:  *It  is  better  to  walk  than  to  run,  and  better  to 
stand  still  than  to  walk,  and  better  to  sit  than  to  stand,  and 
better  to  lie  than  to  sit.'  There  are  said  to  be  pleasures  to 
madmen,  known  only  to  madmen ;  there  are  certainly  mis- 
eries to  the  idle,  wluch  only  the  idle  can  conceive." 

"  A  want  of  occupation  is  not  rest ; 
A  mind  quite  vacant  is  a  mind  distressed." 

His  account  of  his  labors  is  now  again  resumed. 

My  labors  are  now  nearly  fimshed  in  this  town.  On  the 
nights  of  the  5th,  6th,  and  7th  of  April,  1S48, 1  preached 
teewell  sermons  in  Great  Homer  street,  Brunswick,  and  Pitt 


"mtm-  tiu»lmmmutMiiir»i  f 


■rr^ 


iPOOL. 

nune  hac  often  sud 
than  sheets.  £xer- 
firom  principle,  be- 
body  aa  ^rell  as  my 
s :  '  For  man  is  not 
f  the  oak ;  he  has  a 
ated  by  the  intellect, 

tught 
nend.'" 

is  a  disuse  of  talents, 
leisure  days  are  the 
)  proverbs,  one  used 
paniards.  "  A  busy 
i  the  idle  man  mth  a 
ed  by  the  devil,  bu. 
11." 

becomes  torpid,  and 
lensibly  adopting  his 
9  run,  and  better  to 
it  than  to  stand,  and 
tid  to  be  pleasures  to 
re  are  certainly  mis- 
n  conceive. 


i> 


t; 
iBtretMd." 

jain  resumed. 

a  this  town.  On  the 
)ril,  1843, 1  preached 
t,  Brunswick,  and  Pitt 


CLOSINQ   LABORS  IN  LIVERPOOL. 


27T 


street  chapels.  Two  of  those  nights,  the  rain  came  down  in 
torrents,  but  this  did  not  prevent  the  chapels  from  being 
crowded. 

This  week  has  been  a  season  of  rest,  with  the  exception 
of  addresses  delivered  at  two  Missionary  meetings.  On  both 
occasions,  I  had  the  honor  of  presenting  several  sums  in  gold, 
handed  to  me  by  the  friends  of  Missions. 

The  Wesleyan  Methodists,  English  and  Welsh,  have  seven 
principal  chapels  in  town ;  the  Brunswick,  Wesley,  and  Great 
Homer  street,  are  the  most  elegant.  Four  of  them  are  fur 
nisbed  with  handsome  and  fine-toned  organs.  That  in  Great 
Homer  street  I  consider  the  sweetest  and  most  powerful ; 
and  full  justice  is  done  to  the  instrument,  by  the  accom- 
plished organist.  His  ear  seems  to  be  acute  for  poetry  as  for 
music.  It  is  sufficient  for  the  officiating  minister  to  emphasize 
a  word,  or  line,  in  the  verse,  and  I  have  seldom  observed  an 
absence  of  a  corresponding  expression  in  the  music. 

The  congregation  appear  to  have  more  confidence  in  unit- 
ing with  the  organ  than  I  have  ever  witnessed  in  any  place 
of  worship.  The  life  and  soul  he  throws  into  themstrument 
allure  or  compel  the  people  to  sing.  Such  a  state  of  things 
tends  admirably  to  the  liveliness  and  devotion  of  the  audience : 
and  it  is  derirable  that  every  organist  should  endeavor  to 
bear  with  a  little  inaccuracy  or  discord,  now  and  then,  for 
the  sake  of  encouraging  the  congregation  to  unite  heartily  in 
this  very  important  part  of  the  worship  of  God.  In  this 
chapel,  for  the  first  time  in  my  life,  I  have  had  liberty  granted 
me  to  select  any  hymn  in  the  book,  for  the  service ;  and  I 
assure  you,  I  have  luxuriated  amidst  some  of  the  most  sub- 
lime and  beautifiil  poetry  m  the  collection ;  which,  though 
often  admired,  I  never  before  dared  to  oflFer  in  the  sanctuaiy. 
Years  ago,  I  copied  the  following  lines  from  one  of  the  poets, 
and  sometimes  in  the  course  of  my  travels,  have  had  them 
21 


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■  >.»»WI»M. 


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CLOBINQ   LAD0R8   IN   LIVERPOOL. 


delightfully  realized ;  but  never  as  in  the  Great  Homer  atreet 
Wealeyan  chapel,  and  throughout  such  a  BuccesBion  of 
aervicea :  — 

"  Th«  silenced  prencher  yield*  to  potent  itraln, 
And  feeli  that  gi^oe  bit  preyor  besought  In  v«la  | 
The  blessing  thtiUs  through  aU  Oie  laboring  throng. 
And  heaven  U  won  by  Tiolence  of  iong." 

Of  the  final  results  of  hifl  labors    in   laverpool,    Mr. 
Caughey  thus  writes :  — 

I  spent  five  months  in  livorpool,  preached  one  hundred 
•cd  twenty  times,  deUvered  five  Temperance  lectures,  and  a 
few  Missionary  speeches.  From  books  kept  by  different  sec- 
retaries, we  learned  that  more  than  thirteen  hundred  persona 
found  peace  with  God.  I  see,  however,  by  a  sermon  on  the 
revival,  lately  published  by  the  Rev.  John  H.  James,  that 
he  estimates  the  number  at  one  thousand ;  but  in  a  private 
letter  to  me,  he  says  the  number  is  much  understated,  for  pru- 
dential reasons.  It  is  an  eloquent  and  excellent  production, 
and  a  masterly  defence  of  the  revival.  About  six  hundred 
of  tiie  above  were  members  of  the  Wesleyan  church  when 
they  were  converted.  What  the  increase  to  the  church  is 
Ukely  to  be,  I  have  not  yet  learned. 

The  mght  pre^ous  to  my  leaving  laverpool,  I  had  the 
jileasure  of  taking  tea  with  about  five  hundred  persons,  in 
the  school-room  of  Great  Homer  street  chapel ;  after  which 
we  adjourned  to  the  chapel,  where  we  had  an  excellent 

meeting. 

Twelve  speakers,  local  preachers  and  leaders,  had  been 
appointed  for  the  occasion,  linnted  to  ten  minutes  each.  The 
Rev.  Mr.  Farrar  occupied  the  chwr.  Several  appropriate 
resolutions  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  persons  referred 
to,  for  the  adoption  of  the  meeting. 

I  was  charmed  with  tiie  mtelligence,  good  sense,  and  dt 


ERPOOL. 

lie  Great  Ilomor  atreel 
iuch  a  BuccoBsion  of 


int  strain, 
ught  in  rain  i 
aboring  throng, 
long." 

I  in   laverpool,   Mr. 

preached  one  hundred 
perance  lectures,  and  a 
C8  kept  by  different  sec- 
lirteon  hundred  persona 
ror,  by  a  sermon  on  the 
r.  John  H.  James,  that 
sand ;  but  in  a  private 
ch  understated,  for  pru- 
id  excellent  production, 
il.  About  tax  hundred 
(Vesleyan  church  when 
icrease  to  the  church  is 

;  Liverpool,  I  had  the 
re  hundred  persons,  in 
eet  chapel ;  after  which 
>  we  had  an  excellent 

I  and  leaders,  had  been 

ten  minutes  each.    The 

ir.    Several  appropriate 

I  of  the  persons  referred 

nee,  good  sense,  and  di> 


CLOSINa   LADORS  IX    LIVERPOOL. 


279 


vine  unction,  by  which  the  speeches  wore  diatinguiahcd ; 
Bomo  of  them,  too,  were  really  elociucnt.  The  offocts  must 
have  been  salutary,  especially  upon  the  minds  of  the  young 
converts,  many  of  whom  were  present. 

Your  friend  made  the  closing  speech,  but  his  emotions 
were  too  deep  and  powerful  for  him  to  find  words  readily  to 
express  hunaelf.  The  kind  address  of  Mr.  Farrar,  full  of 
love,  and  the  delicate  and  touching  allusions  of  the  brethren, 
were  almost  too  much  for  his  sensitive  nature  to  sustain.  The 
service  closed  by  prayer,  and  singing  that  beautiful  hymn  m 
your  hymn-book  — surprised  not  to  find  it  in  the  Wesleyan 
collection :  — 

"  0  thon  God  of  my  lalvatton." 

They  hac"!,  however,  a  great  many  copies  of  it  printed,  and 
set  to  a  iMoce  of  music,  called  "  Caughey."  Mr.  Ashton 
did  it  great  justice  with  the  powerful  organ ;  and  the  congre- 
gation united  as  if  they  had  been  accustomed  to  it  for  years. 
The  Lord  has  a  precious  people  in  liverpool.  Although 
I  had  many  sore  exercises  of  mind,  while  there,  and  was  with 
them  "in  weakness  and  in  fear,  and  in  much  trembling," 
(1  Cor.  ii.  8,)  they  bore  with  me,  and  upheld  me  in  the  arms 
of  ftuth  and  prayer.  He  also,  who  knew  my  weaknesses, 
provided  me  with  pleasant  homes  at  the  houses  of  Mr.  Fannm 
and  Mr.  Banning,  of  whom  mention  was  made  in  a  former 
letter.  In  the  bosom  of  these  anuable  families,  my  droopmg 
mind  was  often  cheered.  The  day  I  parted  with  them  shall 
never  be  forgotten. 

"  Friendship !  mysterious  cement  of  the  soul. 
Sweetener  of  life,  and  solder  of  society, 
I  owe  thee  mnoh  : 

Thou  host  deserved  from  me  far,  far  beyond 
What  I  can  e'er  repay. 
Oft  have  I  proved  the  labor  of  thy  love. 
And  the  warm  efforts  of  the  gentle  heart 
To  please." 


M" 


i 


CHAPTER    XVII. 

GREAT    BfiVIVAL    IN    LEEDS. 

No  introduction  seems  necessary  to  this  chapter  unless  we 
call  on  the  spiritual  reader  to  rejoice  in  God  for  the  wonder- 
ful work  it  describes,  or  stunidate  the  minister  who  may 
peruse  it  to  emulate  Mr.  Caughey's  success.  Let  every  min 
ister  inquire,  as  he  reads,  why  all  of  us  who  art  called  of 
God  do  not  count  our  seah  by  thousandp  instead  of  by  units  ? 
Who?  Who  is  in  fault?  Or  is  it  not  the  wiU  of  God  to 
grant  the  like  measure  of  his  Spirit  to  all  ?  Who  can  solvo 
the  interesting  question  ? 

On  the  21st  of  April,  1843, 1  left  Liverpool  for  Leeds,  by 
railway,  mnety  miles,  where  I  arrived  at  half  past  seven 
in  the  evemng,  and  put  up  at  tbo  house  of  a  kind  fiiend,  the 
Bev.  William  Lord,  and  received  a  cordial  welcome. 

The  evemog  after  my  arrival  in  Leeds,  through  the  kind- 
ness of  the  Rev.  William  Lord,  Superintendent  of  the  Leeds 
First  Circuit,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  taking  tea  with  a  few  of 
the  principal  friends.  All  appeared  to  be  deeply  anxious  for 
a  revival  of  the  work  of  God.  My  soul  was  much  encour- 
aged by  the  congeniality  of  spirit  I  felt  with  these  excellent 
uersons.  It  was  agreed  that  we  should  commence  efforts  for 
a  revival  in  the  Oxford  Place  chapel,  which  we  did  on  the 
evening  of  the  23d  of  April,  and  concluded  on  the  5th  of 
280 


GREAT  REVIVAL  IN   LEEDS. 


281 


II. 

LEEDS. 

bhis  chapter  unless  we 
i  God  for  the  wondor- 
le  minister  who  may 
jcess.  Let  every  min 
us  who  arc  called  of 
idf>  instead  of  by  units  ? 
lot  the  will  of  God  to 
>  all  ?     Who  can  solvo 

jiverpool  for  Leeds,  by 
ed  at  half  past  sevea 
e  of  a  kind  finend,  the 
rdial  welcome, 
eds,  through  the  kind- 
intendent  of  the  Leeds 
king  tea  with  a  few  of 
o  be  deeply  anxious  foi 
soul  was  much  encoitr- 
)lt  with  these  excellent 
Id  commence  efforts  for 
,  which  we  did  on  the 
icludcd  on  the  5th  of 


May.    During  that  time  the  congregations  were  small,  and 
only  about  thirty  persons  professed  to  have  found  peace.    A 
meeting  of  the  preachers  was  then  called,  and  the  Superin- 
tendents of  the  four  circuits,  the   Rev.  Messrs.  WiUiam 
Lord,  William  KeUc,  Thomas  Harris,  Alexander  Strachan, 
with  their  colleagues,  met,  and  after  much  conversation  upon 
the  work  of  God,  it  was  agreed  that  I  should  visit  the  circuits 
in  succession,  and  spend  two  weeks  m  each.     Although  my 
judgment  was  averse  to  such  hasty  movements,  having  al- 
ways succeeded  best  in  staying  five  or  six  weeks  in  a  chapel, 
yet  I  gave  up  my  will  to  surrounding  counsellors,  and  our 
future  proceedmgs  were  settled  on  the  two  weeks  plan;  at 
least,  until  each  of  the  circuits  should  have  had  a  visitation. 
On  the  7th  of  May,  I  opened  my  commission  in  St.  Peter's 
chapel,  (Third  Circuit,)  and  in  the  evening  of  the  same  day, 
we  found  that  twenty-mne  sinners  had  been  converted  to  God, 
tne  half  of  whom  were  backsUders.      The  following  evening 
the  Rev.  William  Cattle  preached  a  powerful  sermon,  and 
thirty-five  found  peace,  through  the  blood  of  the  Lamb ; 
many  of  these  were  members,  who  had  long  been  groaning 
under  condemnation  for  sin.    We  continued  the  meetmgs  in 
this  chapel  with  smular  success  till  the  20th  inst.,  when  the  to- 
tal number  converted  was  two  hundred  and  fifty ;  of  these,  one 
hundred  and  twenty-eight  were  members,  fifty-one  backslid- 
ers, and  the  remwmng  seventy-three  were  from  the  world ; 
of  these,  many  were  from  adjacent  towns,  so  that  the  actual 
increase  will  be  very  small,  but  the  amount  of  good  to  the 
church  of  God  cannot  be  estimated.     On  Saturday  night, 
the  2l8t  inst.,  we  held  the  usual  band-meeting,  in  the  Old 
St.  Peter's  chapel.    Yon  may  not  understand  this  distinction. 
There  are  two  chapels  now  standing  upon  the  same  premisetii 
The  old  one  is  a  J^wn  substantial  brick  building,  with  a  gal* 
kry,on  three  sides,  erected  in  Mr.  Wesley's  time :  the  new 
24* 


T 


iiT 


282 


OBSAT  REVIVAL  IN  LEEDS. 


one,  a  few  yards  distant,  is  a  commodious  edifice  of  the  same 
material,  accommodates  perhaps  two  thousand  four  hundred 
persons,  but  more  than  three  thousand  are  sometimes  within 
its  walls.  The  old  chapel  has  been  unoccupied  for  several 
years,  and  many  of  the  pews  have  been  removed.  Here  the 
Wesleys  and  Fletcher  often  preached. 

This  was  the  first  Methodist  chapel  in  Leeds;  and  from 
the  following  account  ^ven  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Wesley,  of 
a  fearful  accident,  in  which  he  was  involved  with  many  others, 
such  a  place  of  worship  was  greatly  needed  at  that  time :  "  I 
met  the  brethren  at  Leeds,  and  many  others,  in  an  old  upper 
room ;  after  sin^g,  I  shifted  my  place  to  draw  them  to  the 
upper  end.  One  desired  me  to  come  nearer  the  door,  that 
they  might  hear  without.  I  removed  agtun,  and  drew  the 
weight  of  the  people  after  me.  In  that  instant  the  floor 
sunk.  I  lost  my  senses,  but  recovered  them  in  a  moment, 
and  was  filled  with  power  from  above.  I  lifted  up  my  head 
first,  and  saw  the  people  under  me,  heaps  upon  heaps.  I 
cried  out, '  Fear  not !  The  Lord  is  with  us.  Our  lives  are 
all  safe;  and  then, 

'  Praise  God  from  whom  all  bleHings  flow,' 

I  lifted  up  the  fallen  as  fast  as  I  could,  and  perceived  by 
their  countenances  which  were  our  children;  several  of 
whom  were  hurt,  but  none  killed.  We  found,  when  the 
dust  and  tumult  were  a  little  settled,  that  the  rafters  had 
broken  off  short,  close  by  the  nuun  beam.  A  woman  lay 
dangerously  ill  in  a  room  below,  on  the  opposite  side,  and  a 
child  in  the  « **adle,  just  under  the  nuns.  But  the  sack  wo- 
man, calling  the  nurse  a  minute  before,  she  carried  the  child 
with  her  to  the  standing  side,  and  all  throe  were  preserved. 
Another  of  the  society  was  moved,  she  knew  not  why,  to  go 
out  with  her  child  just  before  the  room  fell.    Above  one 


4. 


iEBDS. 

ous  edifice  of  the  same 
ihousand  four  hundred 
are  sometimes  within 
noccupied  for  several 
Q  removed.    Here  the 

1  in  Leeds;  and  from 
IV.  Charles  Wesley,  of 
Ived  with  manyotiiers, 
sded  at  that  time :  '*  I 
others,  in  an  old  upper 
;e  to  draw  them  to  the 
i  nearer  the  door,  that 
1  agtun,  and  drew  the 
that  instant  the  floor 
)d  them  in  a  moment, 
I  lifted  up  my  head 
leaps  upon  heaps.  I 
ith  us.    Our  lives  are 

igsflow,* 

uld,  and  perceived  by 
children;  several  of 
We  found,  when  the 
,  that  tiie  rafters  had 
eam.  A  woman  lay 
te  opposite  side,  and  a 
a.  Bat  the  nek  wo- 
I,  she  carried  the  child 
throe  were  preserved. 
}  knew  not  why,  to  go 
lom  fell.     Above  one 


QKE.AT  RKVIVAL  IS  LEEDS. 


283 


hundred  lay  vrith  me  among  the  wounded ;  though  I  did  not 
properly  fall,  but  slid  down  softly,  and  lighted  on  my  feet. 
My  hand  was  bruised,  and  part  of  the  skin  rubbed  off  my 
head.  One  sister  had  her  arm  broken,  and  set  immediately, 
rejoicmg  with  joy  unspeakable.  Another,  strong  in  fjuth, 
was  so  crushed  that  she  expected  instant  death.  I  asked 
her,  when  she  got  to  bed,  whether  she  was  not  afraid  to  die. 
She  answered  that  she  was  without  fear,  even  when  she 
thought  her  soul  was  departing ;  and  only  said,  in  calm  faith, 
*  Jesus,  receive  my  spirit !  *  Her  body  continues  full  of  pain, 
and  her  soul  of  love.  A  boy  of  eighteen  was  taken  up,  roar- 
ing, *  I  will  be  good !  I  will  be  good ! '  They  got  his  leg 
set,  which  was  broken  in  two  pkces.  He  had  come  as  usual  to 
make  toturbance,  and  struck  several  of  the  women  gomg  in, 
tall  one  took  lum  up  stJttts,  for  Providence  to  teach  hun  better. 

"  The  news  was  soon  spread  through  the  town,  and  drew 
many  to  the  place,  who  expressed  their  compassion  by  wish- 
ing all  our  necks  had  been  broken.  I  preached  out  of  the 
town  in  weariness  and  painfulness.  The  Lord  was  our  strong 
consolation  however ;  and  I  more  clearly  see  that  a  hair  can- 
not fall  to  the  ground  without  our  heavenly  Father." 

In  the  old  sanctuary  alluded  to,  Mr.  Wesley  held  Ids  twen- 
ty-fifth Annual  Conference,  m  1769 ;  during  which  it  was 
detemuned  to  send  out  preachers  to  America.  The  printed 
Minutes  of  that  Conference  now  lie  before  me :  — 

«  Leeds,  August  1, 1769. 

"  Question  13. — We  have  a  pressing  call  firom  our  brethren 
in  New  York  (who  have  built  a  preaching-house)  to  come 
over  and  help  them.    Who  is  willing  to  go  ? 

"  Answer.  — Kichard  Boardman  and  Joseph  PiUnoor. 

<^  Question  14.  — What  can  we  do  further  in  token  of  oar 
brotherly  love  ? 


284 


QRBAT  REVIVAL  IN   LEEDS. 


I    ' 


I 


«*^n«wer.— Letusmake  a  collection  among  ounwlvea. 
This  was  immediately  done,  and  out  of  it  £bO  were  allotted 
towards  the  payment  of  their  debt,  and  about  £20  given  to 
our  brethren  for  their  passage." 

Mr.  Wesley  says  in  his  Journal :  "  Sunday,  July  80, 1769, 
Mr.  Crook  being  out  of  order,  I  read  prayers  and  preached 
in  Hunslet  church,*  both  morning  and  afternoon.  At  five,  I 
preached  at  Leeds,  and  on  Monday,  81st,  prepared  aU  things 
for  the  ensuing  Conference.  Tuesday,  Ist,  it  began,  and  a 
more  loving  one  we  never  had.  On  Tuesday,  I  mentioned 
the  caae  of  our  brethren  in  New  York,  who  had  buUt  the  first 
Methodist  preaching-house  in  America,  who  were  m  great 
want  of  money,  but  much  more  of  preachers." 

The  part  of  the  chapel  where  Boardman  and  Pihnoor 
stood,  when  they  offered  themselves  for  the  service  in  Amei^ 
ioa,  was  pointed  out  to  me  to  the  li^tof  the  pulpit  under  the 
gallery.    What  interest  do  past  events  afford  us  when  the 
results  are  fuHy  unfolded !    At  the  time  of  the  above  Con- 
ference, the  number  of  Methodists  throughout  Great  Britain 
and  Ireland  did  not  much  exceed  28,000.   The  infant  society 
in  America  was  too  small  to  be  worthy  of  notice.    This  was 
the  entire  of  Methodism  in  the  world.    Now,  America 
alone  numbers  one  million  of  members  —ministered  unto  by 
four  thousand  travelling  preachers,  besides  four  hundred  su- 
peranuated  or  worn  out  preachers,  and  eight  thousand  local 
preachers.!    Thus,  Sir,  you  wiU  perceive  that  the  preachers 
alone  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  are  equal  to  the 
standing  army  of  the  United  States!— an  event  this  that 
Mr.  Wesley  and  the  members  of  that  Conference  little  antici- 
pated.     The  number  of  members  in  Great  Britain  and 

•  A  Aort  wdk  ftom  whew  I  tm  now  writing  -  LwcMeld  Hon..,  Hamlet 
■ane,  near  Leed.. 
t  Their  number  .ince  1848  hu  considerably  increawd. 


lEDS. 

on  among  ourselves. 

'it £50  were  aJlotted 

about  £20  given  to 

mday,  July  80, 1769, 
prayers  and  preached 
ifitemoon.  At  five,  I 
it,  prepared  all  thingn 
,  Ist,  it  began,  and  a 
Fuesday,  T  mentioned 
who  had  built  the  first 
1,  who  were  in  great 
Eushers." 

Burdman  and  Filmoor 
•  the  service  in  Amer- 
of  the  pulpit  under  the 
its  afford  us  when  the 
ae  of  the  above  Con- 
Dughout  Great  Britain 
►0.  The  infant  society 
r  of  notice.  Tins  was 
orld.    Now,  America 

numstered  unto  by 

idea  four  hundred  su- 
id  eight  thousand  local 
5ive  that  the  preachers 
irch,  are  equal  to  the 
— an  event  this  that 
Conference  little  antici- 
in  Great  Britain  and 

—  LarcMeld  Hout,  Haulet 
icreased. 


GREAT  REVIVAL  IN  LEEDS. 


285 


Ireland,  and  in  foreign  stations,  under  the  care  of  the  British 
and  Irish  Wesleyan  Conferences,  is  nearly  half  a  million; 
and  about  fifteen  hundred  and  fifty  efficient  ministers,  besides 
supernumerary  and  superannuated  preachers.    There  we, 
besides,  in  Europe  and  America,  not  far  short  of  half  a 
nullion  of  Methodists  under  different  titles ;  such  aa  Primi- 
tive Association,  Independent,  New  Connexion,  Canadian, 
and  Protestant  Methodists,  etc.   All  these  have  theur  respect- 
ive  mmisters ;  and  though  tiiey  differ  in  the  mode  of  ^urch 
government,  they  preach  the  same  doctrines  ^^^^^  Wes  «y 
tought,  and  are,  I  trust,  aiming  at  tiie  glory  of  G(^,  the 
conversion  of  sinners,  and  the  salvation  of  a  lost  world. 

It  appears  from  the  Minutes  aUuded  to,  that  the  name  of 
FranciB  Asbury,"  did  not  stand  in  the  list  of  preachers  in 
full  comiection,  till  the  Conference  of  1769,  as  also  Richard 
Whatcoat.  Their  names  are  placed  next  each  other.  As- 
bury,  it  seems,  was  admitted  on  trial  as  a  preacher  m  i < oi , 
and  was  received  into  full  connection  in  1768. 

When  Boardman  and  Pihnoor  offered  themselves  for  the 
American  work,  Asbury  Uttle  thought  what  hard  labors 
and  exalted  honors  awaited  him  in  that  country.  Pilmoor 
was  admitted  into  full  connection  in  1766,  m  Leeds; 
three  years  after,  in  tiie  same  pla^e,  he  volunteered  for 

'^'it  WM  not  till  tiie  Bristol  Conference,  1771,  tiiat  Francis 
Asbury  was  appointed  to  the  Western  world.  The  twenty- 
sixth  question  on  the  Minutes  of  that  Coherence  rea^«»««- 
»  Our  brethren  in  America  call  aloud  for  help.  VHio  are 
willing  to  go  over  and  help  them?  Answer:  Five  are  will- 
inc  to  go."  The  two  appointed  were  Francis  Asbury  and 
Richard  Wright.  In  the  appointanent  of  tiiese  servants  of 
God,  especially  Asbury,  how  evident  does  it  appear  to  us 

•  Afterwards  BWiop  Asbuiy. 


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I 
I 


oS  • 


now,  that  Mr.  Wesley  and  the  preachers  were  influenced  hj 
the  same  spirit  that  directed  the  minds  of  the  apostles,  when 
Paul  and  Bamahas  were  separated  from  others,  for  the 
special  work  to  which  they  were  called  by  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Acts  xiii.  2.  Perhaps  these  remarks  may  lead  you  to  pro* 
cure  Asbury's  Journal;  if  you  have  not  seen  it,  I  can 
recommend  it  with  great  pleasure.  About  ten  years  ago,  I 
read  it,  and  made  the  following  entry  in  my  Journal:  "  Au- 
gust 14th.  Week  before  last  I  finished  reading  the  second 
and  tMrd  volumes  of  Asbury's  Journal.  My  mind  frequently 
paused  in  amaze  while,  I  trust,  it  received  lessons  never  to 
be  forgotten.  What  a  man  of  God !  He  did  the  work  of 
an  evangelist  indeed,  and  made  full  proof  of  his  mimstry. 
The  continent  was  his  circuit,  and  he  travelled  round  it  with 
the  regularity  of  a  Methodist  preacher.  After  taking  one 
of  his  tours,  in  which  he  had  endured  great  hardships  and 
Buffered  much  pain,  he  learned  that  an  old  woman  bad  been 
awakened  and  converted  through  his  instrumentality;  he 
exclaimed, '  Glory  be  to  God !  I  will  take  courage  from  this, 
and  go  round  the  contment  again.'  I  have  read  Mr.  Wes- 
ley's Journal  with  equal  attention,,  and  my  conviction  is,  that 
what  the  latter  was  to  Methodism  in  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland,  such  was  the  former  to  Methodism  in  America. 
Although  Mr.  Asbury  suffered  less  from  riotous  mobs,  and 
other  persecutions,  than  did  Mr.  Wesley,  yet  he  endured 
more  from  bad  health,  bad  roads,  bad  beds,  indifferent  food, 
climbing  mountains,  fording  rivers,  together  with  the  extremes 
of  a  rigorous  climate,  in  traversing  the  wilderness  of  Amer- 
ica, till  he  was  old  and  grayheaded,  than  the  venerable 
founder  of  Methodism,  when  in  his  travels,  itinerating  through 
the  more  highly  cultivated  countries  of  England,  Ireland,  and 
Scotland.  Add  to  these,  the  heavy  responsibility  of  an  epis- 
copacy,— the  stationmg  of  the  preachers  over  such  a  wido 


I 


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s. 

?erc  influenced  by 
the  aposdea,  when 
m  others,  for  the 
jr  the  Holy  Ghost, 
jr  lead  you  to  pro- 
ot  seen  it,  I  can 
it  ten  years  ago,  I 
ly  Journal:  "  Au- 
reading  the  second 
[y  mind  frequently 
d  lessons  never  to 
[e  did  the  work  of 
jf  of  his  nunistry. 
elled  round  it  with 

After  taking  one 
reat  hardships  and 
1  woman  had  been 
istrumentality ;  he 
courage  from  this, 
tve  read  Mr.  Wes- 
r  conviction  is,  that 
Ireat  Biitm  and 
>di8m  in  America. 

riotous  mobs,  and 
7,  yet  he  endured 
Is,  indifferent  food, 
r  with  the  extremes 
ildemess  of  Amer- 
han  the  venerable 
itinerating  through 
gland,  Ireland,  and 
nsibility  of  an  epis- 
s  over  such  a  vidu 


6REAT  REVIVAL  IX  LEEDS. 


J.87 


extent  of  territory, — presiding  at  all  the  aimnal  confer- 
ences, —  bearing  tlie  reproaches  of  some,  and  the  murmur- 
ing of  others,  in  the  itinerancy ;  and  all  this  umted  for  many 
years,  with  almost  uninterrupted  bad  health,  —  I  closed  the 
last  volume,  saying,  I  doubt  whether,  smce  the  days  of  tie 
Apostles,  a  man  could  bo  singled  out  who  has  labored  so 
long  and  so  hard,  and  endured  so  much  without  suflering 
martyrdom,  as  the  Rev.  Bishop  Asbury." 

Pardon  this  long  digression ;  but  to  return  to  the  old 
chapel ;  the  Rev.  Thomas  Harris,  Superintendent,  partiy  to 
gratify  me,  and  also  to  accommodate  the  unusual  number 
expected  to  attend  the  Saturday  mght  band-meeting,  had 
the  sacred  spot  prepared  for  our  reception.  I  can  scarcely 
describe  my  sensations,  on  taking  my  seat  with  the  other 
mimaters,  and  glancing  round  the  venerable  e<Mce.  Mr. 
Wesley  was  fond  of  large  pulpits ;  this  one  is  capable  of 
holdmg  seven  or  eight  persons  very  comfortably.  We  had 
a  noble  assembly,  many  of  them  the  choicest  saints  of  God ; 
and  this  "holy  house,"  the  birthplace  of  thousands  now  in 
glory,  and  where  multitudes,  low  in  the  dust,  worshipped  in 
years  gone  by,  was,  once  more,  vocal  with  the  prtuses  of  God 
and  the  loud  hallelujahs  of  his  people. 

Never  before  have  I  seen  or  heard  so  many  witnesses  for 
entire  sanctification.  The  deep  and  rich  experience  of  the 
fathers  and  mothers  in  Israel,  who  had  long  enjoyed  this 
blessing,  nungled  with  the  ardent  and  decided  testimonies 
of  those  who  had  been  lately  purified,  more  than  eighty  of 
whom,  during  the  last  two  weeks,  had  experienced  the  bless 
edness  of  those  who  are  pure  in  heart.  Towards  the  close 
of  the  meeting,  Mr.  Harris,  observing  the  intense  feelmgs  of 
those  who  were  seeking  purity,  requested  such  to  retire  into 
an  adjoimng  class-room,  and  that  a  few  leaders  would  assist 
them  in  prayer.    Many  did  so ;  and  between  twenty  and 


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ORBAT  REVIVAL  IN   LEEDS. 


thirty  obtained  the  blessing  of  a  clean  heart,  while  we  con- 
tinued the  service  in  the  chapel. 

This  is  truly  a  great  and  glorious  revival  of  holiness.    If 
proper  care  be  taken  of  these  precious  believers,  and  the 
blessing  kept  fully  before  the  people  from  the  pulpit,  the 
entire  church  may  soon  be  a  leavened  and  holy  people  unto 
the  Lord.    Were  ihe  preachers,  after  these  special  services 
shall  have  ceased  in  the  town,  to  appropriate  one  ni^t  in  the 
week  to  preach  expressly  upon  entire  sanctification,  it  would 
greatly  tend  to  this  desirable  result ;  and  those  who  have 
been  made  clean  would  then,  it  is  most  Ukely,  be  preserved. 
God  sanctifies  the  people  by  belief  of  the  truth,  John  xvii.  17, 
—  truth  clearly,  pointedly,  and  frequently  preached.   Wher*. 
the  pulpit  is  silent,  or  incQstinct,  or  has  long  intervals  upoo 
the  doctrine  of  entire  holiness,  it  is  seldom  you  will  fiaJ 
many  clear  on  these  "  deep  things  of  God,"  and  few  pro- 
fessing their  reception.    My  soul  has  often  paused,  in  holy 
awe  and  adoring  wonder,  in  marking  how  closely  the  Holy 
Ghost  attends  with  his  blessing  the  frequent  exhibition,  from 
the  pulpit,  of  this  glorious  privilege  of  all  believers.    I  have 
observed,  during  this  revival,  that  when  justification  has  been 
the  subject  of  discourse,  few  have  professed  sanctification; 
but  invariably;  when  holiness  has  been  the  theme,  many  have 
been  the  witnesses  cf  purity  of  heart.    Whatever  class  cf 
truth,  it  would  appear,  is  brought  to  bear  upon  a  congregation, 
the  Holy  Spirit  condescends  to  make  that  the  medium  of  an 
according  blessmg.    Perhaps  it  is  on  the  same  principle  we 
can  account  for  the  fact,  that  in  those  congregations  where 
justification  by  faith  and  tiie  witness  of  the  Spirit  are  not 
preached,  few,  if  any,  are  raised  up  to  testify  that  Jesus 
Christ  hath  power  upon  earth  to  forgive  sins ;  whereas,  just 
the  contrary  takes  place  where  these  are  clearly  and  fully 
preached. 


SDS. 

heart,  wbile  we  con- 

ival  of  holiness.    If 
a  believers,  and  the 
«>m  the  pulpit,  the 
and  holy  people  unto 
ihese  special  services 
liate  one  night  in  the 
inctification,  it  would 
and  those  who  have 
Ukely,  be  preserved, 
truth,  John  xvii.  17, 
Itf  preached.   Wheiv 
i  long  intervals  upoim 
jeldom  you  will  finci 
God,"  and  few  pro- 
often  paused,  m  holy 
how  closely  the  Holy 
[uent  exhibition,  from 
all  believers.    I  have 
,  justification  has  been 
fessed  sanctification ; 
the  theme,  many  have 
.    Whatever  class  <f 
■  upon  a  congregation, 
iiat  the  medium  of  an 
the  same  principle  we 
congregations  where 
of  the  Spirit  are  not 
to  testify  that  Jesus 
re  sins;  whereas, just 
are  clearly  and  My 


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280 


On  Sabbath,  22d  instant,  we  commenced  a  series  of  reli- 
gious services  in  the  Wesley  Chapel,  (Fourth  Leeds  Circuit,) 
text,  1  Thess.  v.  16 — 18.  After  service,  I  dined  with  the 
celebrated  author  of  "The  Village  Blacksmith,"  the  Rev. 
James  Everett.  He  is  a  most  agreeable  man,  full  of  good 
humor;  a  fine  illustration  of  Prov.  iii.  17.  Pleased  I  am  of 
having  had  an  opportunity  of  forming  an  acquaintance  with 
him.  He  resides  in  the  city  of  York,  and  is  here  to  preach 
special  sermons  in  behalf  of  an  institution  belonging  to  a  neigh- 
boring Wesleyan  chapel.  Has  his  Life  of  Dawson  made  its 
appearance  in  America  ?  It  would  be  made  a  great  blessing, 
I  am  sure,  to  the  local  preachers  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church,  and,  indeed,  to  the  regular  mimstry.  If  it  has 
not  yet  been  republished  in  the  United  Stetes,  you  migiit 
make  the  suggestion  to  the  Book  Comnuttee  in  New  York. 

In  the  evening,  to  a  large  congregation,  I  cried,  "  How 
long  halt  ye  between  two  opinions  ?  "  Twenty-five  persons 
decided  for  heaven,  laid  down  their  arms  at  the  feet  of  Jesus, 
and  obtained  redemption  through  his  blood,  the  for^venesfi 

of  nns. 

I  spent  the  last  two  weeks,  most  agreeably,  at  the  house 
of  Mr.  Kinder,  of  the  St.  Peter's  Circuit,  where  I  was  hos- 
pitably enterttuned.  At  the  mansion  of  Mr.  Holdsworth, 
where  I  am  at  present,  I  enjoy  every  comfort  that  a  Chris- 
tian could  desire.  The  nmusters  of  this  circuit,  the  Rev. 
Alexander  Strachan,  Superintendent,  and  the  Rev.  Wilson 
Brailsford  and  Thomas  Lewellyn,  are  exceedingly  kind,  and 
take  a  rejoicing  interest  in  the  revival. 

You  desire  my  opinion  in  the  case  of  *  *  * ,  and  •  •  * . 
I  consider  them  botii  in  (he  extreme  of  that  species  of  wrong 
which  should  be  rectified  if  they  desire  to  save  their  souls 
from  percUtion.  To  the  first,  I  would  say,  let  him  see  to  it 
that  his  own  soul  is  in  a  tqfe  state,  before  he  allow  himself  to 
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indulge  in  Buch  uncharitable  and  wholesale  accrwatlons.    I 
frequently  happens,  that  those  who  are  constant  in  the  cry, 
"  Woe,  woe,  woo  to  the  church  and  her  roiniatcra,  becauae 
they  have  fallen  from  God,"  are  really  in  that  state  them- 
selves, and  shall  eventually  share,  unless  they  repent,  in  the 
same  woes  they  have  denoimced  against  others.    Josephus 
tells  us  of  a  man,  afflicted  in  mind,  near  the  time  of  the 
downfall  of  Jerusalem,  who  ran  about  the  city,  crying,  "Woe 
to  the  city,  woe  to  the  temple,  woe  to  the  priests,  woe  to  the 
people ;  and,  last  of  all,  woe  to  myself! "  at  which  words  he 
was  slwn  on  the  waUs,  by  a  stone  out  of  a  sling.    I  think  it 
is  Plutarch  who  says,  "  They  who  delight  to  gad  abroad,  for 
the  most  part  have  smoky,  nasty,  or  dankish  houses,  or  at 
least,  ill  rule  and  no  content  at  home ;  so  when  men  range 
abroad,  and  play  the  spies  and  scouts,  and  pry  into  other 
men's  actions,  it  is  a  sign  that  they  have  a  /oui  home  at 
home,  and  ill  rule  in  their  own  conseienee.**    I  shall  borrow 
the  language  of  another,  in  speaking  to  the  case  of  the 
Becond.    ^^Umulaiion  has  been  termed  a  spur  to  virtue,  and 
assumes  to  be  a  spur  of  gold.    But  it  is  a  spur  composed  of 
baser  materials,  and  if  tried  in  the  furnace,  will  be  found  to 
want  that  fixedneaa  which  is  the  characteristic  of  gold.    He 
that  pursues  virtue  only  to  surpass  others,  is  not  far  firom 
wishing  others  less  forward  than  himself;  and  he  that  rejoices 
too  much  at  his  own  perfections,  vrill  be  too  little  grieved 
over  the  defects  of  other  men.    We  might  also  insist  upon 
this,  that  true  virtue,  although  the  most  humble  of  all  things, 
is  the  most  progressive ;  it  must  persevere  to  the  end.   But, 
as  Alexander  scorned  the  Olympic  games  because  there 
were  no  kings  to  contend  with,  so  he  that  starts  only  to  out- 
strip others  will  suspend  his  exertions  when  that  is  attuned; 
and  self-love  will,  in  many  cases,  incline  him  to  step  for  the 
priw  even  before  he  has  obtwned  the  victory.    But  th* 


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salo  acciuatlonfl.    I 
I  constant  in  the  cry, 
iCr  iDiniatcra,  because 
y  in  that  state  them- 
88  they  repent,  in  the 
lat  others.    Joacphua 
near  the  time  of  the 
he  city,  crymg,  "Woe 
;he  priests,  voe  to  the 
! "  at  which  words  he 
>f  a  sling.    I  think  it 
;ht  to  gad  abroad,  for 
dankish  houses,  or  at 
I ;  so  when  men  range 
8,  and  pry  into  other 
bave  a  foul  houae  at 
nee."    I  shall  borrow 
;  to  the  case  of  the 
1  a  spar  to  virtue,  and 
is  a  spur  composed  of 
nace,  will  be  found  to 
cteristic  of  gold.    He 
others,  is  not  far  firom 
If;  and  he  that  rejoices 
U  be  too  little  grieved 
might  also  insist  upon 
)t  humble  of  all  things, 
vere  to  the  end.   But, 
games  because  there 
that  starts  only  to  out' 
when  that  is  attained ; 
ae  him  to  sto'p  for  the 
the  victory.    But  Um 


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Yiews  of  the  Christian  are  more  extensive,  and  more  endup- 
ing;  his  ambition  is  not  to  conquer  others,  but  himseif,  and 
he  unbuckles  his  armor  only  for  his  shroud. 

What  you  mention  toward  the  close  of  your  letter,  I  con- 
sider to  be  one  of  the  most  touching  beauties  of  holiness ;  to 
be  enabled  to  aim  at  pleasing  God  in  every  thing,  and  to 
seek  and  find  our  first  happiness  m  him.  We  may  say  of 
such  a  principle,  as  an  old  philosopher  said  of  the  soul,  "It 
is  in  the  whole  body,  and  in  every  part  of  it."  This  is  what 
our  Lord  meant  by  the  single  eye ;  and  when  we  have  this 
singleness  of  intention,  of  pleasing  him  in  all  things,  and 
purity  of  affection  at  all  times,  and  in  all  places  and  circum- 
stances ;  then  our  whole  body  shall  be  full  of  light.  An  old 
divine  tells  us,  that  holiness  in  our  hearts  should  be  as  the 
lungs  in  our  bodies,  in  continual  motion ;  and  that  holiness 
in  our  lives  must  run  through  all  our  words  and  conduct,  as 
the  woof  through  the  whole  web. 

Your  ideas  on  hope,  are  plausible,  perhaps  sound ;  Mwe 
must  die  to  know.  If  such  sentunents  lead  you  to  "  a  cl^r 
walk  with  God,"  and  to  be  more  entirely  devoted  to  him,  I 
can  see  no  harm  in  bdulgjng  them ;  but  a  poet,  when  speak- 
ing of  heaven,  says,  — 

"  Whew  hope,  the  »weet  etoger  th»t  gladdened  the  e«rth, 
Lie*  aaleep  on  flie  bosom  of  bliM." 

To  tins  I  know  you  will  say,  «  Pretty,  but  not  sound." 
Well,  have  your  own  way. 

The  revival  is  still  progressing  with  considerable  power 
In  my  last,  mention  was  made  of  the  commencement  of 
special  services  in  Wesley  chapel.  I  continued^my  efiforto 
there  two  weeks,  but  was  disabled  part  of  the  time  firom 
doing  much  by  an  obstinate  hoarseness.  The  results  were 
good,  but  more  than  tiie  half  of  those  converted  at  Wesley 
were  members  of  society.    There  is  evidentiy  a  great  move 


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QRCAT   RtVIVAL   III  LKCDt. 


in  this  town,  but  it  is  singtilarly  confined  to  profeaiors  of 
religion  under  our  observation.  The  report  is  brought 
weekly.  The  revival  does  not  grapple  with  the  people  of 
the  world  to  the  extent  that  one  would  expect,  and  this 
discourages  mo.  About  6%  persons  were  converted,  who 
were  not  members  of  society,  (at  Wesley  chapel,)  but,  on 
looking  over  the  list,  I  perceive  twenty  of  these  were  from 
the  country,  several  from  other  churches  in  town,  and  a  few 
from  the  other  Leeds  circuits,  so  that  the  poor  society  at 
Wesley  has  been,  I  fear,  but  little  improved  as  to  numbers, 
but  greatly  so  in  piety,  when  we  consider  the  conversion  of 
80  many  of  her  backslidden  and  unconverted  members. 

On  Sabbath  morning,  4th  of  June,  I  opened  my  commis- 
sion in  the  Brunswick  chapel,  Leeds  First  Circuit.  The 
Eev.  William  Kelk,  Superintendent ;  lus  colleagues  are  the 
,  Rev.  Francis  A.  West  and  George  T.  Perks.  Twenty 
souls  were  converted  the  first  night.  This  is  an  elegant 
chagel,  and  a  very  intelligent  and  influential  congregation. 
M^aborg  among  them  have  been  hitherto  with  great  satis- 
faction and  comfort  to  my  own  imnd.  We  have  not  wit- 
nessed  a  ringle  pause  in  the  revival.  Sinners  are  converted, 
and  believers  sanctified  daily;  but,  on  glancing  at  the  secre- 
tary's book  a  short  time  since,  I  was  amazed  at  the  largeness 
of  the  list  of  members  professing  conversion ;  and  my  troubled 
heart  has  exclaimed  again  and  again,  Why  is  this  ?  I  should 
have  told  you,  that  to  prevent  exaggerated  reports  as  well 
as  to  afford  a  clue  to  the  residence  of  those  who  obtwn  salva- 
tion, we  hare  a  pereon  appointed  to  converse  immediately 
with  ttioae  who  profess  convermon  or  sanctification.  He  has 
a  book  lined  off  into  cohimns,  and  headed  thus :  Date,  Name, 
Kesidenoe,  Justification,  Sanctificatiou,In  society,  From  the 
world,  From  other  circirits.  From  other  churches.  Leader, 
Observations.     By  tins  sheet  we  know  at  the  end  of  each 


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i 

led  to  profeflsors  of 
I  report  it  brought 
I  with  the  people  of 
Id  expect,  and  this 
(rero  converted,  who 
ley  chapol,)  but,  on 
'  of  these  wore  from 
IS  in  town,  and  a  few 
the  poor  society  at 
■oved  as  to  numbers, 
ier  the  conversion  of 
rerted  members, 
opened  my  commis- 
First  Circuit.  The 
b  colleagues  are  the 
T.  Perks.     Twenty 

This  is  an  elegant 
lential  congregation, 
erto  with  great  satis- 

We  have  not  wit 
dinners  are  converted, 
glancing  at  the  secre- 
lazed  at  the  largeness 
ion;  and  ray  troubled 
hy  is  this?  I  should 
ated  reports  as  well 
lose  who  obtun  salva- 
lonvorse  immediately 
DctificatioQ.  He  haa 
id  thus:  Date,  Name, 
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week  the  exact  state  of  the  work,  so  far  at  least  ad  the  sub- 
jects of  it  have  c<Mae  before  the  loaders'  meeting,  and  ar- 
rangements made  to  visit  those  persons  at  their  houses  who 
have  promised  to  meet  in  class,  or  who  may  have  requested  a 
few  days  for  consideration.  The  plan  is  excellent,  but  I  am 
not  able  to  inform  you,  as  yet,  how  far  it  has  been  carried 
out.  It  is  certainly  no  small  task ;  for  instance,  on  Sabbath, 
18th  insi  ,  one  hundred  persons  professed  justification,  and 
forty-two  Banctification ;  now,  allowing  the  half  of  those  jus- 
tified to  have  been  from  the  world,  hero  is  considerable  labor 
immediately  spread  before  the  pastors  and  official  members, 
as  the  result  of  one  day.  How  great  the  responsibility ! 
When  men  cry  to  God  for  a  revival,  they  little  thmk,  if  grwit- 
ed,  the  amount  of  care  and  labor  it  must  bring  in  its  train. 
On  Saturday  night  last,  we  concluded  the  "  protracted 
meeting  "  m  the  Brunswick  chapel.  A  few  evenings  previous, 
we  had  a  meeting  for  the  new  converts,  similar  to  those  I 
have  described  in  other  letters.     We  had  a  most  gittgus 

season.  ^ 

On  Saturday  night,  in  the  band-meeting,  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Kelk  gave  an  account  of  the  advancement  of  the  work  of 
God,  during  the  last  month  of  special  services  in  Brunswick 
chapel.  Documents  were  produced,  from  which  it  was  as- 
certained, that  during  the  above  time,  the  total  number  pro- 
fessing to  have  obtained  justification  and  sanotification  were 
about  six  hundred.  Two  hundred  and  forty-four  of  these 
were  cases  of  sanctification.  One  hundred  and  fifty-six 
members  of  society  justified,*  and  the  remaining  two  hun- 
dred were  sinners  converted  from  the  world.  Upwards  of 
fifty  of  the  latter  were  from  the  country,  and  the  rest  diairibu- 
ted  amongH^  four  circmts  in  town,  and  other  churches ;  so 
that,  comparatively,  Brunswick  will  have  but  a  small  increase. 

"jfe^*  Roman*  V.  1. 

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My  heart  is  greatly  attached  to  the  society  and  congregatioii 
of  B.  They  are  a  lovely  people,  and  showed  me  much  re- 
spect and  kindness,  as  did  their  excellent  ministers.  My 
homes,  at  the  hospitable  mansions  of  Mr.  Heigjham,  Mr. 
Smith,  and  Mr.  Shann,  where  I  am  at  present,  have  been 
*  every  thing  I  could  desire.  You  will  see,  therefore,  that  my 
stay  on  the  circmt  has  been  most  agreeable.  "  0,  to  grace, 
how  great  a  debtor ! "  I  believe  no  chapel  ^nthin  the  clwm 
of  Methodism  could  produce  a  greater  number  of  talented 
and  devoted  leaders  than  those  which  belong  to  the  Bruns- 
wick chapel,  Leeds.  My  drooping  soul  was  often  enlivened 
and  warmed  by  their  life  and  glowing  zeal  during  the  con- 
fUct.  I  am  sorry  that  they  have  received  such  a  small  in- 
crease; but  the  real  good  diffused  throughout  the  entire 
society  cannot  be  estimated  by  numbers.  This  revival  was 
needed,  and  if  they  take  the  proper  advantage  of  their  pres- 
ent portion,  they  shall  see  far  greater  things  than  these ; 
tJtimL  were  the  revival  efforts  to  be  begun  now  at  Bruns- 
wiii^^should  expect  a  mighty  and  glorious  work. 

The  miittters  and  leaden  of  the  Oxford  plaoe  chapel  have 
^ven  me  a  pressing  invitation  to  spend  a  few  weeks 
with  them,  which  has  been  accepted.  Yesterday  mormng, 
(Sabbath, July  2,)  we  commenced  "special  services"  there. 
I  enjoyed  a  good  de^ee  of  liberty  on  Col.  i.  19.  In  the  af- 
ternoon, I  asnsted  the  Rev.  Mr.  West  in  the  administration 
of  the  Lord's  Supper,  at  Brunswick  chapel.  It  was  a  grar 
cious  season,  and  the  number  of  communicants  unusually 
large.  Returned  to  Oxford  Place  in  the  evening,  and 
preached  to  (some  say)  four  thousand  people.  Twenty-five 
sinners  were  converted  to  God. 


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>8. 

7  and  congregation 
)wed  me  much  re- 
nt ministers.  My 
Ir.  Heig^iam,  Mr. 
present)  have  been 
,  therefore,  that  my 
•le.  "  O,  to  grace, 
lel  mthin  the  cltum 
number  of  talented 
elong  to  the  Bruns- 
iras  often  enUvened 
sal  during  the  con- 
ed such  a  smaU  in- 
oughout  the  entire 
This  revival  was 
Qtageof  their  pres- 
thingjB  than  these ; 
egun  now  at  Bruns- 
ous  work. 

d  place  chapel  have 
pend  a  few  weeks 
Yesterday  morning, 
lial  services  "  there. 
l.i.  19.  Intheaf- 
n  the  adnumstration 
pel.  It  was  a  grar 
lunicants  unusually 
a.  the  evening,  and 
lople.     Twenty-fiva 


CHAPTER    XVIII. 

THE    OFFENDED    HEARER. 

At  Leeds,  as  elsewhere,  Mr.  Caughey  found  those  who 
could  not  endure  his  apostolic  simplicity  and  faithfulness. 
They  were  wounded  sorely.    Some  of  them  vented  their 
anger  in  letters  addressed  to  the  offending  preacher.    To 
some  of  these  letters  Mr.  C.  replied.    I  have  inserted  enough  < 
of  his  answers  to  make  a  chapter.    The  reader  will  agree  with 
me  that  it  furnishes  a  model  of  faithful  dealing  with  offended 
hearers.     Any  miiuster  having  such  hearers  may  ^||il 
them  by  calling  their  attention  to  these  p<Mnted  appeals  Vv 
reasoxungs. 

It  is  not  the  first  time  I  have  been  called  a  "fooV'  Mid 
designated  by  other  kindred  epithets ;  but  it  seems  the  fool 
has  drawn  your  portrait  "  to  the  life."  I  am  not  at  all  sur- 
prised that  you  are  disjdeased.  Had  it  been  otherwise,  I 
should  have  suspected  myself  a  flatterer.  A  few  months 
previous  to  my  leaving  America,  I  was  requested  to  at  for 
my  portrait ;  and  deprecating  that  which  you  prefer,  I  chargstt 
the  artist  to  delineate  my  coarse  features  on  the  eanvan  ai 
they  vrere,  without  one  hue  or  lineament  of  flattery.  "Wheft 
bu^y  engaged  in  his  art,  I  inquired  whether  people  wero 
not  sometimes  vexed  with  lum  about  their  pictures.  He  un- 
derstood me.  "  0  yes !  but  I  endeavor  to  avoid  that.*' 
"  By  what  means  ? "    "0  Sir,  I  can  readily  discern  from 

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kho  individual  who  sits,  whether  he  would  prefer  the  portrait 
more  handsome  than  himself;  then,  Sir,  I  flatter  a  little  ;  but 
when  I  discover  that  my  subject  desires  a  fac-simile  of  him- 
self, I  am  at  it  in  truth  and  honesty.  Such  are  never  of- 
fended." Ah !  I  thought,  this  may  do  for  a  portrait-paint- 
er, but  not  for  a  minister  of  Christ.  The  portrait  may  not 
affect  the  eternal  interests  of  the  painter  or  his  friend ;  but  it 
is  quite  a  different  tlung,  when  the  features  of  a  hearer's  heart 
and  morals  are  portrayed.  «  You  paint  well."  Thank  you 
for  the  compliment.  «  What  master  did  you  study  under  ? 
Ask  your  conscience ;  but  ere  you  Uftcd  the  pen,  it  gave  the 

«Youi'  flourishes  and  figures,  your  flowers  and  heU-bre 
images  of  terror,  and  noisy  uproar,  are  a  strange  and  harm- 
less compound."    Ay,  if  they  are  ovlj  painted  they  will  bum 
nobody.    Who  was  ever  burned  by  painted  fire  ?     I  have 
Men  the  thing  exquisitely  managed,  so  as  to  deceive  the  eye, 
Jb never  the  touch;  but  this  "highly-colored"  fire  has 
llorchedyou.    How  is  this?     There  must  have  been  some- 
thing more  than  paint.    I  have  looked  upon  Uons,  (these 
are  « images  of  terror,")  sculptured  in  marble,  stamped  on 
paper,  and  carved  in  wood,  well-proportioned,  and  skilfully 
colored ;  but  they  neither  roared  nor  devoured.    So  far  fix)m 
exciting  terror,  I  have  amused  myself  watching  the  littie 
birds  hopping  into  their  open  mouths,  and  playing  among 
their  teeth.    Have  not  my  « images  of  terror  "  had  quite  a 
different  effect  upon  you?    Why  this  ill  humor?    Whyde- 
Clare  you  wiU  never  hear  me  again?     Why,  unless  the 
imagery  represented  reaUties  of  a  terrible  nature,  m  which 
you  beUeved,  and  for  which  you  felt  yourself  totaUy  unpre- 
pared ?    "  The  Hon  hath  roared,  who  will  not  fear  ?    The 
Lord  hath  spoken,  who  can  but  prophesy?"  Amosiii.  8. 
A  glow-worn  rfwmbles  fire ;  but  it  is  Ught  without  heat 


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d  prefer  the  portrait 

I  flatter  a  little  ;  but 

a  fac-simile  of  him- 

Such  are  never  of- 

for  a  portrait-paint- 

le  portHut  may  not 

'  or  his  friend ;  but  it 

es  of  a  hearer's  heart 

b  well."     Thank  you 

i  you  study  under  ?  " 

I  the  pen,  it  gave  the 

flowers  and  hell-fire 
a  strange  and  harm- 
painted  they  wiU  bum 
ainted  fire  ?     I  have 
as  to  deceive  the  eye, 
ly-colored"  fire  haa 
must  have  been  some- 
kI  upon  lions,  (these 
n  marble,  stamped  on 
)rtioned,  and  sldlEully 
ivaured.     So  far  from 
If  watching  the  little 
B,  and  playing  among 
F  terror  "  had  qvute  a 
m  humor?    Why  de- 
?     Why,  unless  the 
•rible  nature,  in  wUch 
rourself   totally'unpre- 
»  will  not  fear?    The 
phesy  ?  "   Amos  iii.  8. 
is  Ught  without  heat 


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God  asks,  "Is  not  my  word  like  fire?  and  like  a  hammer, 
to  break  the  rock  in  pieces  ?  "  Jer.  xxiii.  29.  And  now, 
respecting  the  "noisy  uproar"  which  haa  thrown  you  into 
this  consternation :  —  the  other  day,  while  walking  on  Wood- 
house  Moor,  during  the  drilling  of  a  regiment,  the  quick  cU»> 
charge  of  mu.«k'>try  suggested  "  images  of  terror ; "  but 
not  quite  so  awful  as  those  you  had  of  hell  and  its  flames  the 
other  night.  These  were  but  the  imagery  of  the  battle-field, 
wet  with  life's  red  current,  covered  with  the  dead  and  the 
dying, — **  hail  of  iron,  and  the  Run  of  blood,"  driven  on  by 
men  nerved  for  deeds  of  death.  Nonsense !  The  whole  was 
as  harmless  as  a  parcel  of  boys  cracking  whips.  None  were 
wounded,  none  finghtened ;  all  were  hi^y  delighted.  "  We 
go  through  blank  motions  here,"  said  an  old  soldier  to  me, 
"for  we  only  use  powder;  this  will  do  no  execution, you 
know."  H&'l  the  guns  been  loaded  with  ball  or  shot,  and 
discharged  aiiong  the  spectators,  how  many  hundreds  would 
have  scampered  from  off  tiie  common,  aa  did  multitudes  INlti 
Oxford  Place  chapel,  on  Sabbath  night,  after  sermon !  How 
many  would  have  been  left  on  the  ground,  to  weep  over  their 
wounds !  Lives  tiiere  a  man  in  Leeds,  with  a  heart  so  hard, 
as  to  rail  against  their  cries  for  surgical  ud  ?  What  an  ex- 
citement too  would  have  taken  place  in  the  town !  Remon- 
strances from  all  quarters,  qmte  as  violent  as  those  in  your 
letter.  Showing  what?  That  there  was  something  more 
penetrating  than  "noise"  on  the  Woodhouse  Moor. 

There  were  no  "blank  motions"  on  the  m^t  in  question,  nor 
any  harmless  artillery.  There  was  more  than  flashing,  noi^ 
"  powder."  The  sermon  was  charged  with  the  truth  of  Jkid, 
and  levelled,  and  fired  among  thousands.  Yon  stayed  long 
enough  to  see  the  slun  of  the  Lord,  for  they  were  many,  and 
to  hear  their  cries.  Why  did  you  fly,  when  you  yourself 
were  wounded?    We  had  a  Physician  there,  who  healed 


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THE  OFFENDED   HEARBB. 


scores,  nor  would  he  have  rejected  you,  had  you  thrown  away 
your  weapons  and  sought  his  healing  power. 

Tou  have  helped  me  to  a  good  idea.  A  painter  be^ns  with 
ihe  head.  The  drapery  is  a  mere  circumstance,  with  which 
any  daub  may  succeed.  The  head  shows  the  master.  Let 
him  hit  the  countenance  well,  or  as  some  have  it,  "  the  ex* 
pression,"  and  there  is  little  di£Sculty  with  the  rest.  Some 
sermons  are  like  drapery  in  painting,  they  will  smt  any  body ; 
often  there  is  neither  head  nor  face,  so  that  all  feel  he  means 
nobody. ,  Frequently  the  countenances  are  so  numerous, 
that  every  one  may  be  meant,  wUch,  as  any  effect  upon  a 
congregation  may  be  equivalent  to  nothing;  aai  ex niMlo 
mkUfit,  "  of  nothmg  comes  nothing."  In  a  crowd  there  is 
obscurity^  and  none  get  theu*  "feelmgs  hurt!'  by  a  mortify- 
ing view  of  their  own  likeness.  When  this  occurs  by  design 
to  avoid  giving  offence,  there  is  guilt.  When  it  arises  from 
incapacity  for  this  kind  of  distinct  and  sinner-awakening 
piMlching,  then  should  the  preacher  inquire,  whether  that 
awful  passage  be  not  applicable  to  his  case.  Jer.  zziii. 
80  —  82. 

It  reqtures  a  skilful  mind  to  portray  the  true  features  of 
an  individual  character,  so  as  to  compel  him  to  cry  out, 
«  Kame  me."  But  I  carry  the  idea  farther  than  the  visible 
appearance  of  his  morals.  The  "  inner  man  "  lies  beyond 
the  art  of  the  limner,  though  within  the  vision  of  the  Chris- 
tian numsterl  He  must  delineate  the  lineaments  of  the 
nund,  and  ^e  aspects  and  moral  coloring  of  the  heart.  If 
he  have  stuped  under  the  Great  Master,  he  can  sketch,  by 
a  spiritual  discernment,  *<the  thoughts  and  intents  of  the 
heart."  How  &r  the  "  madman"  has  succeeded  with  your 
picture,  you  yourself  have  detenmned. 

« I  have  made  up  my  mind  to  hear  you  no  more.  You 
■ball  never  have  a  chance  to  insult  me  again."    You  re- 


[R. 

lad  you  thrown  away 
yer. 

L  painter  be^ns  with 
mstance,  with  which 
8  the  master.  Let 
i  have  it,  "  the  ex- 
,th  the  rest.  Some 
y  will  suit  any  body ; 
lat  all  feel  he  means 
s  are  so  numerous, 
IS  any  effect  upon  a 
;hing;  axtiexrUMlo 
In  a  crowd  there  is 
hurt !'  by  a  mortify- 
bhis  occurs  by  design 
When  it  arises  from 
id  smner-awakening 
qmre,  whether  that 
B  case.     Jer.  zziii. 

the  true  features  of 
>el  him  to  cry  out, 
iher  than  the  visible 
r  man"  lies  beyond 
vision  of  the  Chris- 
)  lineaments  of  the 
g  of  the  heart.  If 
r,  he  can  sketch,  by 
I  and  intents  of  the 
succeeded  with  your 

ou  no  more.    You 
e  again."    You  re- 


TnE    OFFGN'DED   HEARER. 


299 


mmd  me  of  a  gentleman  who  came  into  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  chapel,  in  Quebec,  during  the  sermon.  He  was 
ju3t  walking  down  the  aisle,  seeking  a  seat,  when  I  was  ut- 
tering the  following  sentence,  with  strong  emphasis,  and  with- 
out the  least  reference  to  him,  (in  fact,  I  had  never  seen  the 
man  before,)  "Sinner!  what  brought  you  here,  sinner?" 
He  turned  on  his  heel  m  great  indignation,  saying,  "  I  did 
not  come  here  to  be  insulted  ; "  and  made  his  exit. 

"  You  may  call  this  preaching,  and  the  fools  who  are  with 
you  ;  I  do  not ;  it  is  mere  burlesque."  Be  it  so,  I  caiinot 
help  it.  Allow  me  however,  to  say,  you  do  not  seem  to  re- 
semble the  smner  described  by  St.  James  i.  23,  24.  The 
gospel  was  the  glass  into  wluch  he  had  looked.  It  reflected 
his  deformed  features,  and  he  knew  the  likeness  to  be  his  own ; 
but,  upon  withdrawing  from  the  unflattering  mirror,  he  im- 
mediately lost  the  impression,  and  forgot  his  ugliness.  Bath- 
er, you  may  be  compared  to  a  certain  lady  in  high  life,  who 
was  mortified  with  the  conviction  that  she  possessed  a  set  of 
uncomely  features.  Being  asked  on  a  certtun  day,  why  she 
never  turned  when  passing  ihe  mirror,  as  every  body  else  did ; 
she  gave  to  the  rude  question  the  candid  reply :  "  I  have  too 
much  self-love  to  bear  the  ^ght  of  my  own  uglmess."  Why 
not  thus  speak  out  the  sentiments  of  your  heart  at  once,  and 
have  done  with  it  ?  Several  years  ago,  I  conversed  with  an 
old  mftD)  ill  ^0  State  of  Vermont,  who  had  been  a  fine  look- 
ing person  in  his  day,  but  time  had  dotted  his  face  very  un- 
handsomely. He  told  me  he  could  not  bear  to  look  into  a 
nurror,  and  that  he  had  not  done  so  during  twenty-five  years. 
The  application  to  yourself  is  plain,  although  it  appears  you 
do  not  neglect  the  house  of  God.  Why  despise  the  gospel- 
glass,  or  your  humble  servant  who  held  it  before  you? 
Neither  is  to  blame  tltat  you  have  not  had  a  more  comdj 
reflection  of  your  visage.    Is  there  a  deformed  person  in 


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if 


the  nation,  unless  «  out  of  hia  head,"  who  -would  fall  into  a 
fit  of  anger  with  the  honesty  of  hia  mirror  ?  We  generally 
esteem  these  useful  articles  in  proportion  aa  they  are  true  to 
nature.    But  I  forgot  the  decision  of  the  poet :  — 

"  You  yent  yonr  gpleen  u  monkeys,  ■when  they  pa«a, 
Scratch  at  the  mimic  monkey  in  the  gtase, 
While  both  are  one : " 

Notwithstanding  your  ill  humor,  I  shall  attempt  to  neutral- 
ize it  by  the  following  striking  illustration:   I  heard  the 
account  stated  as  a  reaUty  in  a  country  through  which  I  was 
travelling,  and  under  circumstances,  too,  which  would  forbid 
the  relation  of  a  fable  as  a  fact,  although  it  seems  scarcely 
credible.    In  the  depths  of  an  American  forest  there  Uved 
a  man  brought  up  in  ignorance,  poverty,  and  hard  labor. 
His  neighbors  were  similarly  circumstanced.  All  were  entire 
strangers  to  the  comforts  of  civilized  life.    He  was  a  black- 
smith by  trade,  and  black  as  the  coal  necessary  to  lus 
business,  and  as  rough  too  as  the  neighboring  wolf.    His 
wife  made  a  pilgrimage  on  a  certain  day  to  a  distant  town, 
and  ventured  to  purchase  that  wonderful  thing,  a  looking- 
glass.     She  brought  it  home,  suspended  it  upon  the  wall 
without  informing  her  husband  of  the  curiosity.    Coming  m 
from  the  shop  a  Uttle  after,  he  saw  a  strange  looking  bemg, 
resembling  the  very  devU  himself,  peering  at  him,  through 
what  he  considered  a  new  hole  in  his  log  house— his  own 
likeness  in  the  glass.    Not  a  word  did  he  speak,  but  ran  to 
the  shop,  seized  a  sledge-hammer,  and  glided  softly  back. 
Peeping  cautiously  in  at  the  door,  the  horrible  figure  saluted 
him  on  the  opposite  wall  of  the  room.    It  was  no  time  to 
give  way,  Ids  house  was  invaded,  and  the  man  who  would 
not  shrink  from  contendmg  with  a  bear  in  the  forest,  was  not 
now  to  stand  aghast  at  the  ugly  creature  before  him,  be  he 
man  or  devil;  so  he  raised  the  hammer,  U  did  Ae  same ;  ho 


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ilER. 

who  would  fall  into  a 
irror?  We  generally 
on  as  thoy  are  true  to 
the  poet:  — 

^hen  they  paM, 
le  glass, 

tall  attempt  to  neutral- 
itration:   I  heard  the 
y  through  which  I  was 
00,  which  would  forbid 
u^  it  seema  scarcely 
ican  forest  there  lived 
rerty,  and  hard  labor, 
need.   All  were  entire 
ife.    He  was  a  black- 
coal  necessary  to  lus 
leighboring  wolf.    His 
lay  to  a  distant  town» 
erful  thing,  a  looKng- 
aded  it  upon  the  wall 
curiosity.    Coming  in 
strange  looking  being, 
jering  at  him,  through 
s  log  house — his  own 
id  he  speak,  but  ran  to 
tnd  glided  softly  back. 
)  horrible  figure  saluted 
n.    It  was  no  time  to 
id  the  man  who  would 
ar  in  the  forest,  was  not 
iture  before  Wm,  be  he 
ler,  U  (Ud  the  aame ;  h« 


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sprang,  and  it  sprang  •  and  the  iQoking-glasa  was  shivered  to 
atoms  in  a  moment.  He  saw  his  mistake  too  late  to  save  his 
wife's  feelings  or  the  mirror;  the  latter  lying  scattered 
around  him  in  fragments. 

Take  another  case.  Three  or  four  weeks  ago,  I  saw  in  a 
London  paper  the  following,  headed,  "  An  egregious  fool." 
It  was  a  late  police  report,  and  a  fact ;  the  court  of  justice 
and  London  magistrate  were  mentioned,  with  a  full  account 
of  the  trial.  The  defendant,  an  Irish  laborer,  had  been  sent 
that  morning  to  make  some  necessary  repturs  in  a  certain 
mansion.  The  plaintiff,  a  Mr.  Jennings,  stated  that  while 
watclung  the  man,  (as  he  otherwise  could  not  have  believed 
any  man  could  have  been  such  a  fool,)  he  glanced  around, 
and  seeing  in  the  room  in  which  he  was  working,  his  reflec- 
tion in  a  large  looking-glass  door,  exclaimed,  "  Arrah !  by 
St.  Patrick,  my  masther  told  me  he  only  sent  one  man,  and 
there's  anotiier ;  and  he's  got  my  hammer ;  I'll  have  a  ahjf 
at  him."  And  suiting  the  action  to  the  word,  he  smashed 
(he  ima^nary  personage  and  the  glass  at  the  same  time. 
The  defendant's  plea  was,  that  he  had  just  been  put  on  the 
job,  as  he  expected,  by  himself;  but  seeing  the  other  fellow 
looking  at  him,  he  struck  against  the  glass ;  and  that  he 
could  assure  his  majesty,  (the  magistrate,)  that  he  thought 
it  was  another  workman,  who  had  "  taken  the  job  over  his 
head,"  and  that  he  was  so  enraged  at  him,  thmking  at  the 
same  time  that  he  had  stolen  his  hammer,  that  he  struck  at 
him,  and  ruined  the  glass.  The  article  was  valued  at  J&IO  ; 
but,  in  mercy  to  the  poor  follow,  it  was  only  Iwd  at  £5. 
After  having  been  locked  up  a  few  hours,  he  was  liberated 
on  the  complainant's  accepting  the  wife's  promise  to  pay  tiie 
amount,  at  five  shillings  per  week. 

You  have  some  sense  left,  and  I  shall  not  insult  it  by 
fissisting  you  to  make  the  very  evident  application.     "  As  I 
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•aid  before,  I  will  hear  ypu  no  more."  To  this  I  roply: 
Some  people  get  into  hell  wounded  in  the  back,  flyirg  from 
the  truth ;  and  others  go  into  hell  with  a  crash,  fighting 
against  the  truth,  and  carrying  their  wounds  in  front.  Which 
go  the  deepest  into  perdition,  eternity  must  show.  It  seems 
you  intend  to  be  wounded  behind ;  perhaps  you  think  there 
are  scars  suflScient  before.  Remember  you  cannot  escape 
from  yourself,  nor  from  principles  which  have  made  a  lodg- 
ment within  you;  nor  from  a  "judgment"  that  shall  dog 
your  steps  through  life,  and  overtake  you  in  your  laat  hours: 

"  While  conscience,  unrelenting,  >tiU  maintains 
Her  right  to  raise  new  fears,  and  caose  new  pains." 

Make  no  rash  vows.  Leave  yourself  free.  Many  take 
much  pains  to  attain  a  position,  only  to  prepare  themselves 
for  a  plunge  into  worse  troubles ;  as  an  Italian  would  say, 
Qadar  dalla  paddla  nella  brace, — equivalent  to  falling  from 
Scylla  into  Charybdis.  Beware  lest  that  come  upon  you 
predicted  by  an  old  divine :  "  For  if  thou  shuttest  the  win- 
dows of  thine  eyes  from  reading,  and  the  doors  of  thine  ears 
from  hearing,  God  may  clap  such  a  padlock  of  a  judicial 
curse  upon  them  both,  that  thou  shall  never  open  thine  eyes 
or  ears,  tall  thou  comest,  as  the  rich  glutton,  to  see  Abraham 
afar  off,  and  Lazarus  in  Ids  bosom ;  and  bear  a  part  in  those 
dreadfbl  screeqhinga  and  bowlings  which  are  in  hell ! "  You 
say,  "  I  prefer  my  former  views  and  ease  of  mind ;  it  ia 
impossible  for  me  to  see  as  you  see,'*  etc.  No !  nor  are 
you  ignorant  of  the  reason !  The  name  of  that  great  philoft- 
opher,  Galileo,  is  familiar  to  you.  If  he  was  not  the  mventor 
of  the  telescope,  you  are  aware  he  improved  it ;  and  ren- 
dered essential  service  to  the  cause  of  science  when  he 
made  the  instrument  subservient  to  astronomical  observa- 
tions. But  do  you  remember  the  story  of  a  Florentine  phi- 
losopher, who  oould  not  be  persuaded  to  look  through  one  of 


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rc."  To  this  I  roply: 
a  the  back,  flyirg  from 
with  a  crash,  fighting 
rounds  in  front.  Which 
r  must  show.  It  seema 
erhaps  you  think  there 
)er  you  cannot  escape 
ich  have  made  a  lodg- 
ement" that  shall  dog 
you  in  your  last  hours: 

till  maiBtaini 
cause  new  paioa." 

rself  free.  Many  take 
to  prepare  themselves 
an  Italian  would  say, 
[|[uivalent  to  falling  from 
t  that  come  upon  you 
thou  shuttest  the  win- 
1  the  doors  of  thine  ears 
k  padlock  of  a  judicial 
It  never  open  thine  eyes 
glutton,  to  see  Abraham 
md  bear  a  part  in  those 
liich  are  in  hell ! "  You 
ind  ease  of  mind ;  it  is 
e,'*  etc.  No !  nor  are 
me  of  that  great  philoa- 
he  was  not  the  inventor 
improved  it;  and  ren- 
te of  science  when  he 
9  astrononucal  observa- 
>ry  of  a  Florentine  phi- 
i  to  look  through  one  of 


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Galileo's  telescopes,  lest  ho  should  see  something  in  the 
heavens  that  would  disturb  his  belief  in  Aristotle's  philoso- 
phy? Tho  scriptural  tcleacopo  of  faith  is  a  great  disturber 
of  the  peace  when  put  before  the  vision  of  a  man  living 

in  sin !  ,.      . 

«  I  have  hell  enough  in  this  Ufe."    I  shall  not  dispute 
with  you  about  that ;  but  should  not  this  satisfy  you  ?  "  Pant 
ye  after  the  second  death  ?  "   What  is  heU  upon  earth  ?   Is  it 
any  thmg  else  than  a  foretaute  of  the  torments  of  the  damned  ? 
What  is  the  "bottomless  pit"  mentioned  in  Revelation? 
What,  but  the  eternal  sinkmg  of  the  soul  from  God  ?    Hell, 
then,  most  assuredly  begins  in  this  world;  and  the  mouth 
of  the  pit  opens  wide  in  time.    Every  unconverted  sinner  is 
within  the  circumference  of  tiie  pit.     "  A  wicked  man," 
says  one,  "  is  a  candidate  for  nothing  but  heU ;"  and,  says 
another,  "HeU  is  tiie  centre  of  every  sinner's  gravity." 
These  are  faota ;  and  there  is  no  standing  still.   The  motions 
of  a  sinner  downward  are  as  steady  as  the  weights  in  a 
clock.    Such  things  go  down  slowly,  but  surely,  by  the 
ordinary  revolutions  of  tho  time-piece ;  or  the  cord  may 
break,  and  they  fall  at  once.    Time  is  connected  with  what 
the  Holy  Ghost  calls  the  «  sUver  cord  "  —human  life ;  and 
a  brittle  affiiir  it  is.    There  is  no  law  in  nature  more  steady 
than  the  progress  of  a  sinner  to  his  horrible  centre  ;  but  the 
cord  may  be  severed  by  an  accident,  or  by  the  friction  of  its 
own  workings;  or  by  the  stroke  of  God,  Job  xxxvi.  18; 
and  thus  you  may  drop  into  an  eternal  hell  at  once.    Many 
sinners,  on  their  death-bed,  have  confessed  themselves  on 
the  brink  of  hell;  but  you  admit  yourself  already  in  heU. 
And  does  not  this  illustrate  my  sentiment?    If  tiie  sinner 
be  within  the  circumference  of  the  pit,  he  must  be  troubled 
with  its  smoke ;  and  this  is  heU  upon  earth.    Smoke  is  some- 
times hot,  but  never  so  intense  as  the  flames  from  which  it 


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THE   orrENDED   HEARER. 


proceeds ;  but  there  Is  just  such  a  difference  between  the 
Bell  upon  earth  and  that  in  eternity. 

I  can  only  reply  to  the  other  epithets  you  have  lavished 
upon  me,  the  old  Latin  proverb,  the  translation  of  vbicb 
runs  thus :  ^'  Growing  mad  agtunst  the  remedy  of  our 
madness ! " 

These  frequent  appeals  appear  to  have  brought  lus  offended 
hearer  to  a  more  reasonable  state  of  mind.  Hence  the 
milder  tone  of  the  next  paragraphs. 

"The  wrath  of  man  worketh  not  the  righteousness  of 
God."  I  am  glad  you  are  better  pleased  with  me ;  but  ] 
have  no  wish  you  should  be  any  less  displeased  with  yourself, 
until  you  become  a  better  man.  "  I  thought  it  so  monstrously 
ridiculous."  But  it  seems  you  were  led  to  suppose  that  the 
ricUeuUnu  monater  was  yourself.  "  It  was  so  unnatural  — 
80  out  of  all  character."  And  yet  you  sud  in  your  heart, 
**  He  means  me."  How  could  you  think  so,  unless  there 
were  some  lineaments  in  the  monster  strikingly  like  yourself? 
« It  is  easy,"  said  a  man,  who  understood  the  matter  well, 
"  to  know  a  picture  well  drawn,  if  we  are  acquamted  with 
the  person  whom  it  represents."  This  is  a  very  good  crite- 
rion to  apply  to  the  present  subject.  If  nature  had  been 
wholly  avoided,  or  misrepresented,  you  could  no  more  have 
thought  the  distorted  figure  was  your  own,  than  if  I  had 
been  describing  the  devil  himself.  A  witty  writer  has  some 
where  remarked,  that  he  who  studies  life,  yet  bungles,  may 
draw  some  fwnt  imitations  of  it;  but  he  who  purposely 
avoids  nature,  must  fall  into  the  grotesque,  and  make  no 
likeness.  In  this  case,  I  have  you  for  a  witness,  that,  how- 
ever bungjlingly  nature  was  imitated,  the  likeness  has  been 
recognized  by  one  of  tlie  most  competent  of  judges. 

I  have  read  a  remark  to  this  effect,  that  the  picture  18 


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lifference  between  the 

3t8  you  have  lavished 

)  translation  of  which 

the  remedy  of  our 

ve  brought  Ids  offended 
of  mind.     Hence  the 

the  righteousness  of 
leased  with  me ;  but  I 
spleased  with  yourself, 
Qught  it  so  monstrously 
ed  to  suppose  that  the 
b  was  so  unnatural  — 
>u  said  in  your  heart, 
think  so,  unless  there 
trikingly  like  yourself? 
'Stood  the  matter  well, 
9  are  acquamted  with 
9  is  a  very  good  critc- 
If  nature  had  been 
u  could  no  more  have 
ir  own,  than  if  I  had 

witty  writer  has  some 
life,  yet  bungles,  may 
mt  he  who  purposely 
}te8que,  and  make  no 
r  a  witness,  that,  how- 
the  likeness  has  been 
ent  of  judges. 
ict,  that  the  picture  is 


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well  drawn  which  looks  at  all  who  look  at  it.  It  «eemfl  the 
picture  looked  on  you,  at  any  rate ;  and  you  were  simple 
enough  to  imagine  that  it  net  only  looked  at  you,  but  looked 
like  you. 

"  You  are  not  so  morose  a  bemg  as  I  thought  you  were, 
nor  so  stiff.    I  wish  you  success  among  the  Lecdites ;  I  shall 
come  to  hear  you  as  often  as  I  can  while  I  remain  m  town." 
I  care  little  for  your  opinion  about  me,  unless  it  lead  to  your 
conversion.     It  is  pleasing,  however,  to  learn  you  have 
altered  your  mind.    //  tabio  muda  comeio,  U  neado  no,  said 
the  Spaniard :  "  A  wise  man  changes  his  nund,  a  fool  never." 
If  the  truth  be  heard  in  the  love  of  it,  your  heart  may  be 
softened  into  penitence,  which  is  the  forerunner  of  salvation. 
Till  sin  is  hated  and  abandoned,  I  fear  you  will  hear  to  little 
advantage ;  but  as  faith  cometh  by  h^iating, — come !   "  Now 
that  you  know  my  views  and  state  of  nund,  I  expect  a  kinder 
method,  and  less  severity."    I  am  afraid  you  will  be  greatly 
disappointed,  unless  a  change  take  place  in  your  morals. 
Even  then,  without  regeneration,  you  will  still  be  disgusted 
with  your  own  likeness,  and  dissatisfied  with  the  preacher. 
Allow  me  to  illustrate  what  I  mean.   In  a  work  entitled  The 
last  year  in  China,  we  have  some  excellent  remarks  on 
Chinese  portrtdt-painters ;  showmg  that  they  have  not  learned 
the  art  of  flattery,  although  they  make  excellent  likenesses. 
The  author  relates  the  following  anecdote,  in  proof:    A  lady 
of  Macao,  was  having  her  portnut  drawn  by  a  Chinese  artist. 
As  the  work  proceeded,  she  expressed  her  strong  (Kssatisfac- 
tion  at  the  performance.    "  'Spose,"  swd  the  pamter,  "  you 
smile  a  little,  he  look  better."     But  it  was  in  vtdn ;  for 
when  the  picture  was  done,  tho  indignation  of  the  fair  one 
was  BO  great,  and  so  disagreeably  expressed,  that  the  irri- 
tated artist  exclaimed,  "  If  handsome  face  no  got,  how  hand- 
some face  can  make?"     The  writer  remarked,  that  he 
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THE  OFFENDED  HEARER. 


thought  an  English  artjat  could  have  shown  tho  honest  Chi 
new  out  of  hU  difficulty —  that  a  golden  appUcation  would 
have  removed  hia  Bcruples.  Perhaps  not.  Respect  for  h\g 
profession,  or  homage  to  tho  stern  demands  o{  principle, 
might  have  rendered  his  mind  as  obstinate  toward  Mammon, 
M  to  tho  displcjisuro  of  the  good  lady. 

I  shall  be  glad  to  see  you  again  in  the  house  of  God. 
Remember,  however,  that  painters  only  make  a  rude  draught 
of  the  face  at  first ;  succeeding  touches  bring  out  the  fea- 
turos  more  perfectly.  If  the  minister  be  "  a  workman  that 
necdeth  not  to  bo  ashamed,"  like  a  clever  artist,  he  will  not 
throw  down  his  spiritual  pencil  till  tho  picture  is  in  such  a 
state  as  to  render  it  impossible  to  mistake  the  person  repre- 
sented. Nor  will  he  stop  here ;  what  no  painter  would  do 
wth  a  finished  picture,  he  will— hew  it  in  pieces,  as  Samuel 
did  Agag  before  the  Lord.  Take  heed ;  some  of  the  slashes 
of  "the  sword  of  the  Spirit"  may  reach  beyond  your  por- 
trait, "  piercing,  even  to  the  dividing  asunder  of  soul  and 
Bpirit ;  and  of  the  joints  and  marrow."  Heb.  iv.  12.  The 
following  verse  has  long  been  my  motto : 

"  Brandish  in  fnll  faith,  till  then, 
The  Spirit's  two-edged  iword, 
Hew  kll  the  anates  of  fiends  and  men     . 
In  pieces  with  the  wordt 
'•Tis  written,' thus  applied, 
Baffles  all  strength  and  art ; 
Spirit  and  soul,  with  this  divide, 
And  joints  and  marrow  part." 

Another  letter  commences  with  the  next  paragraph,  and 
mdicates  that  the  offended  hearer  was  yielding  still  more  tt 
the  faithful  application  of  truth. 

You  are  certainly  an  awakened  sinner,  whatever  you  may 
say  to  the  contrary.  In  this  state  of  mind,  "  the  smallest 
things  can  give  your  sins  a  twitch."    Had  you  lived  in  the 


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THB  OFFENDED  BEAREil. 


801 


shown  tho  honest  Chi 
olden  application  would 
s  not.     Respect  for  hif 

demancU  of  principle^ 
inate  toward  Mammon, 

1  in  the  house  of  God. 
Ij  make  a  rude  draught 
hes  bring  out  the  fca- 
r  be  "a  workman  that 
lever  artist,  he  will  not 
bo  picture  is  in  such  a 
stake  the  person  repre- 
t  no  painter  would  do 
it  in  pieces,  as  Samuel 
d ;  some  of  the  slashes 
lach  bejond  your  por- 
g  asunder  of  soul  and 
"  Heb.  iv.  12.  The 
to: 

len, 
)rd, 
I  and  men 


iTide, 
t." 

I  next  paragraph,  and 
yielding  still  more  tf 

ler,  whatever  you  may 
f  mind,  "  the  smallest 
Had  you  lived  in  th« 


days  of  Aaron  the  high  pmat,  and  with  such  a  eonsciencf 
as  you  have  now,  it  would  have  inti-rp/eted  the  tiuklmg  of 
the  bells  on  the  borders  of  his  garment,  into  an  *'  unmannerly 
personality." 

You  say,  "  This  — —  could  never  have  happened  by 
chance ;  somebody  has  put  you  up  to  it."  But  have  you 
never  read  of  one  Appelles,  who  fadled,  as  often  aa  he  tried, 
to  pwnt  tho  foanung  of  a  horse  ?  At  last,  in  a  rage,  he 
flung  his  brush  at  tho  painting,  and  *^ chance**  expressed 
that  which  art  could  not.  In  your  case,  I  deny  that^  any 
person  has  ^ven  me  the  information  in  question,  as  firmly 
as  I  reject  the  power  of  "  chance."  The  eye  of  a  heavenly 
witness  rests  upon  you  and  your  sins.  God,  who  has  crvlled 
me  to  preach  his  gospel,  suggested  to  me  suitable  matter  by 
hia  Holy  Spirit.  I  lay  claim,  however,  to  no  higher  inspira- 
tion than  what  any  minister  of  Christ  may  have,  who  walks 
closely  with  iJo-i,  and  who  has  one  denre  and  one  turn. 

«*  And  if  I  turu  to  God,  will  that  mend  the  afiair  ?  Yon 
said,  •  Sinner,  God  will  cut  you  down.* "  I  did  say  so,  but 
added  immcUialoly,  "Your  speedy  repentance  will  be  a 
lengthening  of  your  tranquillity."  Did  not  Jonah,  at  last, 
obey  the  Lord,  in  delivering  the  warning  to  the  people  of 
Nineveh  ?  But  one  day's  journey  on  tho  walls  was  sufficient. 
As  he  walked,  crying,  "  Yet  forty  days,  and  Nineveh  shall 
be  overthrown ; "  they  heard  the  voice,  as  if  it  had  come 
from  heaven,  and  turned  every  one  of  them  firom  their  iniqui- 
ties. Forty  days  passed  away,  and  the  city  continued  in  its 
grandeur.  There  was  a  condition  in  the  sentence.  Their 
unfeigned  repentance  rendered  the  prediction  void.  "  0  new, 
and  aduurablo  thing  I "  says  a  good  man ;  "  the  denundation 
of  death  brought  forth  life ;  the  prophesy  of  the  overthrow 
overthrew  the  prophecy ;  the  sentence  of  destarnction  mad* 
a  nullity  m  the  sentence." 


w--i.li 


HnHMMipMMnniM 


^«! 


308 


TUE    OFfENDUD   HBABEB. 


I  cannot  conclude  viithout  referring  to  one  or  two  of  your 
closing  sentiments.  It  is  wrong  in  you  to  suppose,  tbatwhat 
you  feel,  is  a  sample  of  a  religious  life;  and  yet  many  mis- 
take here.  A  very  excellent  man  told  me,  in  Dublin,  that, 
when  an  awakened  sinner,  he  was  greatly  buffeted  by  the 
devil  on  this  point.  It  was  represented  to  his  mind,  "  This 
is  reli^on ;  and  are  you  prepared  to  exchange  a  life  of 
gayety  and  pleasure  for  these  moping,  miserable  feelings  ? 
This  is  a  religious  life."  He  met  the  temptation  thus :  "  I 
am  conscious  of  real  misery,  and  if  I  set  out  for  heaven,  I 
may  have  seventy  years  of  it ;  but  then,  after  death,  I  shall 
be  eternally  happy.  On  the  other  hand,  if  I  neglect  reli^on, 
I  may  possibly  enjoy  seventy  years'  happiness;  but  .this 
must  be  succeeded  by  an  eternity  of  torment.  Which,  then, 
will  be  the  most  profitable  to  me,  m  the  long  run  ?  Un- 
questionably, seventy  years'  wretchedness,  followed  by  an 
eternity  of  pleasure  and  delight."  From  that  moment,  he 
bade  farewell  to  siu  and  the  devil  forever,  without  a  single 
idea  of  the  comforts  of  experimental  religion ;  as  if  Chris- 
tiaiuty  were  designed  to  strip  him  of  every  source  of  gratifi- 
cation, and  render  lus  desolate  soul  void  of  any  enjoyment, 
other  than  the  anticipations  of  the  rewards  of  heaven. 
But  a  happier  man  than  this  same  individual  I  ha>e  not  met 
throu^out  my  travels. 

The  saying  of  Origen  is  worthy  of  notice:  "It  is  the 
manner  of  Scripture  to  begin  with  those  things  which  are 
sad  and  dreadful,  and  to  end  with  those  things  which  are 
cheeirful  and  comfortable.  *  I  will  kill  and  make  alive ;  not, 
<  I  will  make  alive  and  kill.' "  I  am  much  mistaken,  if  you 
are  not  now  drinking  the  "  wormwood  and  the  gall ; "  but 
there  is  a  great  difference  between  that  and  the  "  cup  of 
Balvation."  The  paths  of  repentance  are  sad  and  tiiomy ; 
but  the  ways  of  religion  "  are  ways  of  pleasantness,  and  all 


smm 


^.s^€t   ./ 


BR. 

»  one  or  two  of  your 
to  suppose,  that  what 
;  and  yet  many  mis- 
me,  in  Dublin,  that, 
atly  buffeted  by  the 
to  his  mind,  "  Thia 
exchange  a  life  of 
, nuserable  feelings? 
temptation  thus :  "  I 
et  out  for  heaven,  I 
,  after  death,  I  shall 
if  I  neglect  reli^on, 
happmess;  but  .this 
aent.  Which,  then, 
the  long  run  ?  Un- 
less, followed  by  an 
>m  that  moment,  he 
ver,  without  a  single 
eligion ;  as  if  Ghiis- 
ery  source  of  gratifi- 
d  of  any  enjoyment, 
rewards  of  heaven, 
[dual  I  have  not  met 

notice:  "It  is  the 
3e  things  wUch  are 
se  things  which  arc 
bnd  make  alive ;  not, 
iich  nustaken,  if  you 
and  the  gall;"  but 
lat  and  the  «  cup  of 
ire  sad  andiliomy; 
pleasantness,  and  all 


TUE    OFFENDED  HEARER. 


S09 


her  paths  are  peace."  I  cannot  agree  with  you,  that  an  es- 
cape from  sin,  and  from  pursuing  temptation,  is  impossible. 
Think  of  your  soul,  its  value,  its  cost.  Think  of  the  agonies 
and  blood  of  Jesus  Christ ;  aye,  and  the  horrors  of  hell. 
Cast  these  reflections  between  you  and  your  sins. 

I  was  reading  the  other  day  of  an  aiiCient  general,  who 
showed  great  skill  in  conducting  the  retreat  of  his  army. 
The  enemy  pressed  him  sore ;  and,  at  a  time  when  all  was  in 
jeopardy,  he  marched  rapidly  through  a  narrow  pass,  between 
mountains,  and  then  filling  it  with  the  branches  of  trees,  set 
fire  to  them.  The  flames  ascended  like  a  wall  of  fire  be- 
tween him  and  his  foes,  and  thus  he  secured  his  retreat. 
Throw  hell-fire  between  you  and  your  sins :  "  Escape  for  thy 
life,"  sinner ;  "  tarry  not  in  all  the  plain." 

"  Panne,  en  knowledge  bent,  the  pathless  road, 
And  pierce,  through  infinite,  in  quest  of  God." 

Remember,  every  other  avenue  to  God  is  closed,  but  one, 
"  The  new  and  Uving  way,"  opened  by  the  death  of  Jesus 
Christ.  There  is  no  access  but  by  this  way.  The  law  of  God, 
"  like  a  two-edged  sword,"  turning  every  way,  will  smite 
you  into  hell,  if  you  dare  to  force  an  approach.  "  Come 
unto  God  by  him,"  and  "  enter  into  the  holiest  by  the  blood 
of  Jesus ; "  receiving,  upon  your  entrance,  "  remission  of 
sins,  through  faith  in  his  blood." 

Attend  to  it  in  time ;  perhaps  when  you  would,  it  may  be 
too  late.  Only  a  few  days  ago  I  was  reading  of  a  man  who 
had  long  neglected  the  house  of  God,  his  worship  and  his 
word.  Sitting  by  his  own  fire,  one  Sabbath,  mth  his  family, 
he  s£ud,  "  I  shall  read  a  chapter  in  the  Bible,  as  I  have  not 
done  so  for  a  long  time."  It  was  too  late ;  while  in  the  act 
of  reachmg  for  the  Bible,  he  sunk  down,  and  immediately 
expired.    When  in  the  south  of  Ireland,  about  nine  months 


'£m^^:'.f..j. 


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THE    OFFENDED  HEARER. 


ago,  a  zealous  servant  of  God  related  to  me  the  following 
afiectmg  circumstance :  — 

He  had  been  on  a  visit  to  a  certain  town,  for  benevolent 
purposes,  and  intended  to  hold  a  meetbg  on  the  Sabbath  for 
the  conversion  of  sinners.    On  the  Saturday  previous.  Prov- 
idence cast  in  his  way  an  ungodly  sinner.    He  talked  with 
him  respecting  his  soul,  but  the  man  treated  every  thing 
with  great  levity.    When  my  friend  was  about  to  take  leave, 
he  said,  with  much  mirth,  "I  am  likely  to  Uve  as  long 
as  you.     I  could  match  you  in  a  walk  of  ten  miles  any 
day."    "  Well,"  replied  the  other,  on  a  sudden  impression, 
but  without  the  least  degree  of  resentment,  "  this  is  your 
day  of  mercy,  to-morrow  may  be  God's  day  of  judgment." 
He  then  asked  him,  whether  he  would  come  to  the  chapel 
next  day,  and  hear  such  truth  as  might  be  made  a  blessing 
to  him  ?     In  a  somewhat  merry  mood,  he  replied,  "  I  shall 
come."    Accordingly,  on  the  Sabbath,  he  followed  the  man 
of  God  to  the  meeting,  and  when  within  a  few  yards  of  the 
place,  he  dropped  down,  and  was  dead  in  a  few  moments. 
That  night,  in  the  same  room  where  his  corpse  lay,  my  friend 
held  a  meeting  for  the  benefit  of  the  living.    How  often  is 
the  sentiment  of  a  German  poet  verified !  — 

With  noiseless  tread,  death  steals  on  man, 

No  plea,  no  prayer,  delivers  him  ; 

From  the  midst  of  busy  life's  nnflnished  plan, 

With  sudden  band  it  seven  him. 

Ready,  or  not  ready —no  delay. 

Forth  to  his  Judge's  bar,  he  matt  awav." 

Adieu. 


SABER. 


«d  to  me  the  following 

lin  town,  for  benevolent 
5tmg  on  the  Sabbath  for 
Saturday  previoua,  Prov- 
smner.  He  talked  with 
an  treated  every  thing 
was  about  to  take  leave, 

likely  to  live  as  long 
a  walk  of  ten  miles  any 
on  a  sudden  impression, 
entment,  "  this  is  your 
)d's  day  of  judgment." 
>uld  come  to  the  chapel 
ight  be  made  a  blessing 
d,  he  replied,  "  I  shall 
h,  he  followed  the  man 
thin  a  few  yards  of  the 
;ad  in  a  few  moments, 
is  corpse  lay,  my  friend 

living.    How  often  is 
led!  — 

lis  on  man, 

a; 

inflnished  plan, 

1. 

f 

ist  away." 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

BA,MBLES    ABOUND    LEEDS. 

In  the  seventeenth  chapter,  we  left  Mr.  Cftughey  at  the 
close  of  his  first  round  of  visits  to  the  various  chapels  in 
Leeds.  Having  taken  a  glance  at  him  in  his  dealings  with 
the  offended  hearer,  we  now  follow  him  once  more  into  the 
scenes  of  his  more  active  labors.  It  appears  that,  after 
going  round  the  Leeds  circuit  and  spending  about  two  weeks 
in  each  chapel,  he  returned,  first  to  the  Oxford  street  chapel, 
and  then  to  St.  Peter's,  preaching  several  weeks  in  each, 
with  "  signs  following." 

Before  describing  these  latter  labors,  he  favors  us  with 
some  account  of  his  rambles  around  Leeds.  His  visit  to 
Cross  Hall,  and  to  the  tomb  of  the  heroic  John  Nelson,  will 
afford  the  pious  reader  great  pleasure ;  since  every  remin- 
iscence of  the  holy  dead  is  a  pearl  of  price  to  a  spiritual 
mmd.  The  letters  which  compose  this  chapter  were  ad- 
dressed to  an  American  friend. 

A  few  weeks  since,  in  company  with  the  fanuly  of  Thomas 
Shann,  Esq.,  I  rode  out  to  Cross  Hall,  a  few  miles  from 
Leeds,  formerly  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Fletcher.  Five  years 
ago,  when  we  derived  so  much  benefit  to  our  souls  from  a 
perusal  of  her  Memoirs,  we  little  thought  that  I  should  ever 

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RAMBLES  ABOUND  LEEDS. 


pay  a  visit  to  the  very  spot  vrhere  these  events  transpired, 
■which  then  afforded  us  so  much  interest  and  pleasure. 

The  house  is  a  square,  substantial,  two-story  building,  of 
cream-colored  stones,  situated  a  short  distance  from  the  road, 
shaded  with  trees,  and  a  fine  garden  behind.  Mrs.  F.  built 
this  immediately  after  she  came  to  Yorkshire.  The  old  hall 
is  attached  to  it ;  a  low,  venerable  edifice,  over  the  door  of 
which  we  read,  1712.  The  family  who  now  occupy  the 
mansion,  on  learmng  who  we  were,  and  our  errand,  kindly 
gave  us  permission  to  walk  through  the  house.  I  can  scarcely 
express  to  you  the  emotion  which  filled  my  heart  when  pass- 
ing from  room  to  room,  each  one  hallowed  by  the  presence 
of  this  holy  woman  of  God.  Ah !  I  thought,  here,  during 
fourteen  years,  she  spent  many  happy  aa  well  as  many  sor- 
rowful hours.  Here  the  deepest  night  brooded  over  all  her 
temporal  prospects.  In  this* place  she  trusted  in  God,  and 
was  delivered  ;  for  here  it  was  that  day  dawned  upon  her 
dark,  dark  night.  Through  these  rooms,  or  along  those  gar- 
den walks,  did  she  often  meditate  upon  and  conflict  with  an 
impresMon,  wluch  bears  the  tinge  of  romance,  but  which  waa 
evidently  of  God. 

"  Hide  it  my  heart,  within  that  cloee  disgniM, 
When  mixed  with  Qod's,  his  loved  idea  lies." 

This  is  the  spot  where  she  endeavored  to  break  or  strengthen 
that  mystorious  link  which  strangely  bound  her  spirit  to  that 
eminent  servant  of  Christ,  the  seraphic  Fletcher.  Resolving 
to  await  the  dawning  of  that  day  in  her  earthly  history,  which 
for  many  years  she  had  foreseen,  as  by  prophetic  viaon ; 
here  she  often  mournfully  exclaimed,  in  futh's  darkest  hour, 

"  Darkly  safe  with  Ood,  my  soul 
His  arm  still  onward  bean, 
Till  through  each  tempest  on  the  whole, 
A  peace  divine  appears." 


DS. 

i  events  transpired, 
and  pleasure, 
flro-story  bvulding,  of 
tance  from  the  road, 
lind.  Mrs.  F.  built 
shire.  The  old  hall 
ice,  over  the  door  of 
ho  now  occupy  the 
1  our  errand,  kmdly 
use.  I  can  scarcely 
my  heart  when  pass- 
«red  by  the  presence 
bought,  here,  during 
18  well  as  many  sor- 
brooded  over  all  her 

trusted  in  God,  and 
ly  dawned  upon  her 
I,  or  along  those  gar- 

and  conffict  with  an 
lance,  but  which  was 

)  disgnise, 
1  idea  Ues." 

0  break  or  strengthen 
and  her  spirit  to  that 
Fletcher.  Resolving 
sarthly  history,  which 
by  prophetic  viaon ; 
,  fuUi's  darkest  hour, 


le  wbote. 


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RAMBLES  AROUND  LEEDS. 


818 


Or,  in  the  more  triumphant  language  of  anoiher  poet :  — 

"  The  Lord  my  pasture  iliiiU  prepare, 
And  feed  me  with  a  shepherd's  care ; 
His  presence  shall  my  wants  supply, 
And  guard  me  with  a  watchful  eye  ; 
My  noonday  walks  he  shall  attend. 
And  all  my  midnight  hours  defend." 

That  promise  also  was  her  stay,  which  she  received  from 
God  at  Laytonstone :  "  Thou  shalt  lay  up  gold  as  dust,  and  the 
gold  of  Ophir  as  the  stones  of  the  brooks ;  yea,  the  AUnighty 
shall  be  thy  defence,  and  thou  shalt  have  plenty  of  silver," 
Job  xxii.  24,  25  ;  and  commented  upon  them  thus :  "  What 
I  understand  by  these  words  is,  that  a  time  shall  come  when 
I  shall  owe  no  man  any  thing,  and  have  plenty  to  carry  on 
such  designs  as  the  Lord  shall  lay  on  my  heart,  for  his 
glory ;  that  he  will  bring  me  out  of  this  place,  and  provide 
some  way  for  every  member  to  be  removed,  so  that  I  shall 
say,  'Now  is  fulfilled  that  word,'  'Thou  shalt  decree  a 
thing,  and  it  shall  be  established  unto  thee,  and  light  shall 
shine  on  thy  path.' " 

Here  her  faith  seemed  to  receive  a  death  blow  in  the  sad 
intelligence,  that  the  object  of  her  hope  was  dying  at  Made- 
ley  ;  and  again,  that  he  was  about  to  leave  England,  perhaps 
for  eve",  the  blood  draining  from  his  lungs  day  by  day ; 
still  faith  flourished  again,  and  failed  not,  but  prompted  her 
to  ask  and  beheve  for  the  following  ugns,  which  were  fulfilled 
to  the  letter,  four  years  afterwards :  First,  That  Mr.  Fletcher 
might  be  nused  up  again.  Second,  And  brought  back  to 
England.  Third,  That  he  would  write  to  her  upon  the  sub- 
ject, though  they  had  been  so  many  years  asunder,  and  not 
so  much  as  a  message  passing  between  them  upon  any  sub- 
ject. Fourth,  That  in  that  letter,  he  would  state  the  matter, 
as  having  rested  upon  his  mind  for  several  years.  This 
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iMMiiiiM 


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RAMBLES  AROUND  LEEDS. 


prayer  of  faith  waa  instantly  attended  with  the  assurance 
that  all  this  would  occur  in  the  year  1781. 

With  the  singular  coincidences  you  are  familiar.  On  the 
8th  of  June,  1781,  as  she  expresses  it,  "  the  cloud  arose, 
little  as  a  human  hand,"  in  the  form  of  a  letter,  from  the 
object  of  her  affections,  which  was  soon  after  followed  by  Mr. 
Fletcher  himself.  Here  they  talked  over  all  the  providences 
through  which  they  had  been  led ;  tried  to  penetrate  the 
gloom  which  still  hung  over  her  temporal  affairs ;  but  that 
God,  who  had  so  strangely  brought  them  together,  com- 
manded the  darkness  into  light,  and  in  the  neighboring 
church  of  Batley,  "  We  covenanted,"  says  Mrs.  F.,  "  in 
the  name  of  the  Father,  and  of  the  Son,  and  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  to  bear  each  other's  burdens,  and  to  become  one 
for  ever." 

With  the  history  of  her  orphan  establishment,  her  zeal  for 
God,  and  activity  in  his  cause,  her  holy  life  and  godly  con- 
versation, her  Memoirs  have  made  you  already  familiar ; 
and  I  doubt  not,  that  on  my  return  to  America,  we  shall 
read  them  over  again,  with  renewed  pleasure,  and  I  shall 
then  tell  you  more  than  I  can  crowd  into  a  letter.  After 
visiting  the  apartment  she  had  fitted  up  as  a  chapel  for  her 
orphans,  we  returned  to  Leeds. 

In  company  with  a  friend,  I  rode  over  to  Batley  church 
the  other  day,  and  stood  before  the  same  altar  where  they 
were  married.  The  vicar  was  very  kind,  conducting  us 
through  various  parts  of  the  old  sanctuary,  in  yfY'izh  were 
some  very  ancient  monuments,  and  afterwards  into  the  ves 
try.  After  a  tedious  search,  he  found  the  entry  of  their 
marriage,  in  one  of  the  church  records,  signed  first  by  the 
Curate,  and  then  by  the  parties,  thus:  "John  William 
Fletcher,  or  De  la  Fletchere,"  and  underneath,  in  her  own 
peculiar  hand,  "Mary  Bosanquet;"  the  witnesses  were  a 


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with  Hie  assurance 
il. 

e  familiar.  On  the 
,  "the  cloud  arose, 
f  a  letter,  from  the 
fter  followed  by  Mr. 
r  all  the  providences 
led  to  penetrate  the 
tral  affairs ;  but  that 
tiem  together,  com- 
in  the  neighboring 

says  Mrs.  F.,  "in 
)n,  and  of  the  Holy 
and  to  become  one 

ishment,  her  zeal  for 
life  and  godly  con- 
)u  already  familiar ; 
>  America,  we  shall 
[)leasure,  and  I  shall 
into  a  letter.  After 
p  as  a  chapel  for  her 

er  to  Batley  church 
me  altar  where  they 
kind,  conducting  ua 
tuary,  in  wHoh  were 
Brwards  into  the  ves 
d  the  entry  of  their 
Is,  signed  first  by  the 
us:  "John  William 
idemeath,  in  her  own 
the  witnesses  were  a 


RAMBLES  AROUND  LEEDS. 


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«  Miss  Tripp,"  and  some  other  persons  whose  names  I  did 

not  copy. 

A  few  days  ago,  with  a  small  party,  I  visited  the  village 
of  Birstal,  about  seven  miles  from  Leeds.  Our  principal 
objeet  was  to  see  the  tomb  of  the  famous  John  Nelson,  Mr. 
Wesley's  faithful  coadjutor.  The  spot  where  his  earthly  re- 
mains have  rested  nearly  seventy  years,  is  a  little  south  of 
the  old  parish  church.  The  tomb  is  a  neat  freestone  square, 
covered  with  a  slab  of  the  same  material,  and  bears  the  fol- 
io «ring  inscription :  — 

JOHN  NELSON, 

Departed  thU  life,  July  18th,  177«, 

Aged  67  yean. 

MARTHA,  HIS  WIFE, 

Departed  this  life,  September  11th,  1774, 

Aged  69. 

While  we  on  earth  had  onr  abode. 
We  both  agreed  to  serve  the  Lord, 
And  he  was  pleased  as  you  may  see, 
By  death  not  long  us  parted  be ; 
Then  he  required  the  breath  he  gave, 
And  now  we  both  rest  in  one  grave, 
Until  again  be  ns  restore, 
A  life  to  live  and  die  no  more. 

An  old  building  was  pointed  out  to  us,  a  few  yards  froB 
the  tomb,  as  the  remains  of  the  vicarage,  where  John's  per 
secutor  lived. 

Near  the  Wesleyan  chapel  we  were  shown  into  a  very 
small  brick  bmlding,  where  John  used  to  read  and  pray , 
and  over  the  little  fireplace  is  engraved  upon  a  stone,  "  John 
Nelson's  study."  Here  he  prepared  some  of  those  heavy 
thoughts,  which  came  down  with  the  execution  of  lus  stone- 
hammeri  upon  the  rocky  hearts  of  his  hearers. 


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RAMBLES  AR07ND  LEEDS. 


Yesterday,  accompanied  by  part  of  the  kind  family  of 
John  Howard,  Esq.,  at  whoae  house  I  am  at  present  enter- 
tained, I  rode  to  Micklefield,  eight  miles  from  Leeds,  formerly 
the  residence  of  the  famous  Sammy  Hick,  the  village  black- 
smith. 

His  Memoir  is  now  published  by  our  Book  Concern  in 
■>Ne\»  York,  and  doubtless  it  has  had  a  wide  circulation  in 
'  \merica. 

We  put  up  at  the  village  inn,  and  Sammy's  daughter  was 
pointed  out  to  us,  standing  at  the  door  of  her  o^vn  house, 
looking  towards  us  with  great  earnestness.  On  approaching, 
slie  gave  us  a  cheerful  welcome,  as  if  aware  of  the  purport 
of  our  visit  to  Micklefield.  "  Walk  in,"  said  she  ;  "  thi^  is 
the  house  my  father  and  mother  occupied  during  fifty  years, 
and  there  is  the  flagstone  upon  which  my  father  was  kneeling 
when  he  was  converted  to  God,  and  where  he  was  aftewarls 
sanctified ;  and  it  was,  while  sitting  on  a  chair  with  his  feet 
on  that  flag,  he  died  and  went  home  to  glory.  And  on  that 
other  flagstone,  my  mother  (Martha)  died.  There  is  the  old 
shelf  just  as  they  had  it,  and  that  is  the  same  old  clock." 

We  felt  ourselves  quite  at  home,  and  entered  into  an 
agreeable  conversation  respecting  the  "departed."  Her 
good  husband  came  in,  and  a  few  neighbors,  and  we  sang, — 

'*  He  breaks  the  power  of  cancelled  gin, 
He  sets  the  prisoner  free  ; 
His  blood  can  make  the  foulest  clean, 
His  blood  availed  for  me." 

Kneeling  down  upon  the  famous  flagstone,  I  prayed  that  the 
blessing  of  God  might  descend  upon  the  descendants  of 
Sammy  ETick,  and  upon  these  his  old  neighbors  and  as- 
sociates. 

We  then  visited  the  blacksmith's  shop,  the  scene  of  Sam- 
my's labor  at  the  anvil,  and  where  he  spent  many  a  happy 


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the  kind  family  of 
im  at  present  entor- 
irom  Leeds,  fonnerly 
ik,  the  village  blauk- 

ir  Book  Concern  in 
wide   circulation  in 

nmy's  daughter  was 
r  of  her  o\vn  house, 
3.  On  approaching, 
ware  of  the  purport 
"  said  she  ;  "  thii  is 
d  during  fifty  years, 
jr  father  was  kneeling 
jre  he  was  aftewar.ls 
ft  chair  with  his  feet 
glory.  And  on  that 
d.  There  is  the  old 
I  same  old  clock." 
md  entered  into  an 
"  departed."  Her 
ors,  and  we  sang, — 


in, 

le,  I  prayed  that  the 

ihe  descendants  of 

neighbors  and   as- 

,  the  scene  of  Sam- 
ipent  many  a  happy 


RAMBLES   ABOUNl)   LEEDS. 


817 


day.    The  identical  bellows,  used  by  Sammy,  are  yet  there, 
and  in  active  employment ;  and  the  old  anvil  block,  etc. 

Mr.  Caughey  now  resumes  his  account  of  the  progress  of 
the  revival.  He  had  begun  a  second  series  of  meetmgs  in 
Oxford  Place  chapel,  and  concerning  which  ho  says  : 

The  congregations  were  greatly  increased,  when  compared 
with  my  first  visit.    This  is  the  largest  chapel  I  have  ever 
preached  in ;  indeed,  I  have  been  informed,  it  is  the  largest 
Methodist  chapel  in  the  world.      It    seats  two  thousand 
five  hundred  persons ;  but  from  the  spaciousness  of  the  aisles, 
etc.,  when  crowded,  admits  one  thousand  more  ;  and  on  Sab- 
bath nights  it  was  always  full,  and  i\any  had  to  go  away  who 
could  not  get  in.    Such  a  mass  of  pt  iple  was  a  most  sublime 
and  imposing  scene.    The  Lord  graciously  assisted  my  voice, 
so  that  I  was  distinctly  heard  in  all  parts  of  the  congregation. 
Wliat  a  contrast  when  compared  with  years  gone  by !  Eight 
or  nine  years  ago,  my  voice  was  so  feeble,  it  was  often  with 
the  greatest  diflSculty  I  could  make  three  or  four  hundred 
persons  hear ;  now  God  has  so  enlarged  its  compass,  as  to 
reach  the  ears  of  three  or  four  thousands.      Perhaps  this 
may  tend  to  illustrate  that  important  sentiment,  tliat  the 
Lord  Jesus  never  calls  a  person  to  any  great  effort,  or  ex- 
traordinary duty,  without  the  gracious  intention  of  impart>- 
ing  a  corresponding  supply  of  strength  for  its  accomplish- 
ment. 

I  know  not  which  to  adnure  most,  tlus  or  the  society  at 
Brunswick.  They  are  truly  a  loving,  gracious  people.  In 
the  famiUes  of  Mr.  Holt,  Mr.  Dove,  Mr.  Howard,  and  Al- 
derman Musgrave,  every  thing  was  done  to  render  my  visit  to 
their  circuit  most  agreeable  and  delightful.  Their  hospitality, 
and  many  acts  of  kindness,  have  left  an  indelible  impression 
upon  my  heart.  Did  I  not  tell  you,  before  I  left  America, 
27* 


jrf' 


MS 


RAMBLES  AROUND  LBBDS. 


tiiat  the  Lord  would  ^ve  me  fathers  and  mothers,  and  broth- 
ers and  sisters  ?  Nothing  of  all  that  God  proTnised  mo  has 
yet  failed.  With  their  nunisters,  the  Bey.  William  Lord,  the 
Bev.  George  B.  Maodonald,  and  the  Bev.  Alfred  Barrett,  I 
have  formed  a  friendship  that  will  last  for  ever. 
*  The  results,  of  the  four  weeks  in  the  above  place  of  wor- 
ship, were  very  gratifying.  Three  hundred  persons  were 
enabled  to  declare  that  the  blood  of  Jesus  had  cleansed  tliem 
from  all  sin ;  and  an  equal  number  professed  justification. 
A  considerable  portion  of  the  latter  were  members  of  the 
Wesleyan  church,  and  several  from  other  churches  and  cir- 
cuits ;  so  that  the  increase  to  the  church  at  Oxford  place, 
cannot  be  more  than  about  one  hundred  persons.  On  the 
last  Sabbath  in  July,  I  returned  to  St..  Peter's  chapel,  which 
is  ahnost  equal  in  size  to  Oxford  place,  and  continued  there 
two  weeks.  During  that  time,  two  hundred  persons  ob- 
tained the  blesfflng  of  sanctification,  ninety-five  of  whom 
were  from  country  circuits.  One  hundred  and  mnety  indi- 
viduals professed  justification ;  fifty  of  this  number  were  al- 
ready members  in  the  St.  Peter's  circuit,  and  the  remiunder 
were  from  other  churches  and  the  world.  Those  who  were 
converted  from  the  world,  and  resided  in  the  neighboring 
circuits,  had  notes  ^ven  them,  as  an  introduction  to  the  lead- 
ers of  classes  in  the  Wesleyan  society ;  that  they  might 
have  the  benefit  of  weekly  instruction,  and  become  candi- 
dates for  church  membership.  I  have  not  been  able  to  as- 
certun  the  increase,  during  the  two  weeks,  to  the  church  in 
St.  Peter's ;  but  I  doubt  whether  it  amounts  to  more  than 
fifty. 

With  the  Superintendent  of  the  St.  Peter's  circmt,  and 
his  worthy  colleagues,  the  Bev.  Charles  Cheetham  and  the 
Bev.  William  Cattie,  I  labored  in  great  harmony.  They  are 
self-denying  and  zealous  servants  of  God,  well  acquunted 


B08. 

ul  mothers,  and  broUi- 
Glod  promised  mo  has 
er.  William  Lord,  the 
«v.  Alfred  Barrett,  I 
'or  ever. 

above  place  of  vror- 
indred  persons  were 
lus  had  cleansed  them 
rofessed  justification, 
nrere  members  of  the 
lier  churches  and  cir- 
ch  at  Oxford  place, 
ad  persons.  On  the 
Peter's  chapel,  which 
and  continued  there 
lundred  persons  ob- 
ninety-five  of  whom 
Ired  and  ninety  indi- 
this  number  were  al- 
t,  and  the  remunder 
d.  Those  who  were 
i  in  the  neighboring 
roduction  to  the  lead- 
)ty ;  that  they  might 
,  and  become  candi- 
not  been  able  to  as- 
eks,  to  the  church  in 
lounts  to  more  than 

Peter's  circmt,  and 
3  Gheetham  and  the 
harmony.  They  are 
od,  well  acquunted 


RAMBLES  AROUND  LEEDS. 


819 


with  revivals  of  religion  ;  and  they  have  entered  most  heart- 
ily into  the  present  movement. 

In  the  above  chapel,  they  have  more  than  their  share  of 
the  poor ;  but  they  are  rich  in  fmth :  many  of  them  have 
been  acquuntcd,  lor  a  long  time,  with  the  deep  things  of  God. 
They  were  more  noisy  during  the  sendees  here  than  in  any 
other  .circuit  in  town ;  but  Mr.  Harris  had  them  generally  un- 
der perfect  control.  There  were  seasons,  however,  when  his 
voice  of  authority  was  lost  amidst  their  hallelujahs.  It  glad- 
dened my  heart  to  see  men  and  women,  clothed  in  the  coarsest 
garb,  feasting  upon  the  richest  blessings  of  the  gospel  of 
peace,  and  rejoicing  with  joy  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory. 

Were  I  a  resident  of  Leeds,  and  desired  a  close  walk  with 
Christ,  and  lessons  on  the  deep  thmgs  of  God,  though  worth 
thousands,  I  would  choose  for  my  place  of  worship,  the  St. 
Peter's  Wesleyan  chapel.  I  would  sit  at  the  feet  of  these 
poor  sjunts,  and  learn  from  them  how  to  watch  and  pray, 
live  by  faith,  despise  the  world,  conquer  hell,  and  take  the 
kingdom  of  heaven  by  violence.        •        •        • 

My  work  is  now  nearly  finished  in  Leeds,  and  indeed  in 
England,  for  the  present ;  as  I  sail  from  Hull,  on  the  13th 
Sept.,  1843,  by  the  will  of  God,  for  Rotterdam,  Holland. 
Since  my  last  to  you,  I  have  preached  a  few  times  in  Wesley 
chapel,  and  in  the  Wesleyan  chapel,  village  of  Woodhouse, 
near  Leeds.  In  both  places  the  power  of  God  was  revealed 
in  the  conversion  of  sinners. 

On  Sabbath  evening,  3d  mst.,  I  preached  out  of  doors,  to 
an  immense  multitude,  on  the  verge  of  Woodhouse  Moor. 
Text:  Rev.  xx.  11—13.  Some  triflers  made  an  effort  for 
a  Uttle  sport,  but  a  few  appeals  spoiled  the  movement,  and 
the  parties  listened  with  attention  to  the  end. 

On  the  following  week  I  preached  farewell  sermons  in  St. 
Peter's,  Brunswick,  and  Oxford  place  chapels,  with  much 


mMm 


8&0 


RAMBLES  AROUND  LEEDS. 


comfort  to  my  own  mind,  and,  I  trust,  profit  to  others.  We 
have  taken  eome  pains  to  obtain  statistics  of  the  revival,  with 
regard  to  conversions,  and  as  correct  as  possible.  We  find  that 
upwards  of  sixteen  hundred  persons  have  professed  justificar 
tion.  This  embraces  the  work  carried  forward  in  the  chapels 
of  the  Leeds  four  circuits.  In  my  letters  to  you  and  *  ^  *,  I 
have  classed  the  new  converts,  so  that  you  could  see  what  pro- 
portion were  Wesleyan,  and  from  other  churches  and  circuits 
in  the  country,  and  from  the  world. 

After  deducting  those  converted  from  other  churches  in 
town,  and  those  from  the  country  circuits,  many  of  whom 
were  Wesloyans,  and  a  goodly  number  from  the  world,  it  has 
been  ascertained,  that  one  thousand  of  the  converts  belong 
to  Leeds.  About  six  hundred  and  fifty  of  the  latter  were 
members  of  the  Weshjyan  church  in  Leeds.  These  may  be 
divided  into  three  classes.  Those  who  had  backslidden  from 
God ;  those  who  had  never  been  converted,  by  far  the  great- 
est number ;  and  a  few  wk  had  been  living,  to  say  the  least, 
in  a  low  state  of  grace,  but,  under  the  searching  truth  of 
God,  had  been  involved  in  distressing  doubts,  and  cast  away 
the  little  confidence  they  had.  but  had  sought  a  clearer  man- 
ifestation of  the  favor  of  God,  and  found  it.  Such  were 
questioned  closely  respectmg  past  experience,  and  they  gen 
erally  swd,  "  I  have  had  secret  misgivings  for  years,  about 
my  conversion ;  there  has  been  a  standing  doubt,  which  has 
ever  annoyed  me  since  I  began  to  meet  in  class ;  so  that  I 
have  done  little  good,  and  received  little,  other  than  re- 
Btnunt  from  going  back  into  the  world.  My  uneasiness  has  in- 
creased under  this  pointed  preaching,  and  also  in  beholding 
this  wonderful  work  of  God.  I  felt,  if  I  could  not  boar  the 
test  of  this,  how  could  I  expect  to  bear  the  trials  of  my 
deathbed,  or  the  light  of  eternity.  I  liave  ma^e  much 
resistance  against  coming  forward  to  be  prayed  for,  have  and 


IKDS. 

profit  to  others.  We 
C8  of  the  revival,  with 
jx»88iblo.  We  find  that 
ivo  professed  justifica- 
i  forvrard  iu  the  chapols 
BT8  to  you  and  *  ^  *,  I 
rou  could  see  what  pro- 
r  churches  and  circuits 

rem  other  churches  in 
ircuita,  many  of  whom 
'  from  the  world,  it  haa 
jf  the  converts  belong 
fifty  of  the  latter  were 
jeeda.     These  may  be 
)  had  backslidden  from 
erted,  by  far  the  great- 
living,  to  say  the  leaat, 
the  searching  truth  of 
doubts,  and  cast  away 
I  sought  a  clearer  man- 
bund  it.      Such  were 
)erience,  and  they  gen 
ivings  for  years,  about 
iding  doubt,  which  has 
)et  in  class ;  so  that  I 
little,  other  than  re- 
My  uneasiness  has  in- 
and  also  m  beholding 
if  I  could  not  boar  the 
bear  the  trials  of  my 
I  liave  made  much 
be  prayed  for,  have  and 


RAMBI.KS  AROUND  LSEDS. 


321 


\ 


hold  cut  for  several  weeks.  At  Iwt  I  took  up  ray  cross, 
camo  forward  among  the  penitents,  Xi  a  Miner,  and  God,  for 
0!irist''i  sakfl,  hiw  ()«trdoncd  all  my  nine. "  'J'O  you  then 
consider  this  War  as  tLo  tin.3  cf  your  cop/ergion?"  ^'I 
prefer  bo  do  ao,  &ir,  and  pnall  consider  tliis  as  r\y  starting 
point  tor  heaven." 

You  ffill  therefore  perceive,  tuat  the  increase  to  ihe  four 
circuits  is  not  more  than  three  hundred  and  fifty  wals. 
This  is  R  much  greater  disproportion  than  any  thing  of  the 
kind  !  have  observed  since  n^y  arrival  on  this  side  the 
Atlimtio.  Indeed,  such  classif :  itious  as  I  have  sent  yea 
from  Liverpool  and  Leeds,  in  r«gard  to  th*"  subjects  of  justi- 
fication, JAva  been  new  io  mp.,  ai  I  io  not  remember  any 
neo3ssity  for  such  t%tinctic'v9  in  any  of  tb?  revivals  in  which 
I  have  been  engaged  m  the  Unitea  States.  You  an  oktmo 
iiow  seldom  it  is,  that  ptraons  continue  to  meet  in  c'ass  foi-  a 
lene,th  of  tiiu  j  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  who  h^ve 
never  beei.  "bora  again."  They  are  generaUy  pushed  to 
such  extremities,  under  the  preaching  or  in  class,  as  to  com- 
pel them  oHhev  v  -  retire  into  the  ranks  of  the  world  or  get 
convert/Fd  tc  God.  The  firequeucy  of  revivale  in  each  soci- 
ety of  our  church,  also  greatly  contributes  to  lessen  tho 
number  of  such  unhappy  parsons.  Were  I  to  take  tkj  sta- 
tisticti  of  the  revivals  m  Dublin,  Limerick,  Cork,  Liverpool, 
and  Leeds,  as  criteria  of  the  state  of  Methodism  in  this 
c^catry,  I  should  certainly  conclude,  that  a  vast  number 
meet  regularly  in  claa?  for  years,  and  in  good  standing  too 
as  it  nspccts  moral  clmracter,  who  havs  never  obtained  a 
satisfactory  evidence  cf  their  adoption  into  the  family  of  God. 

I  am  not  sufficiently  acquainted  with  the  religious  state  of 
the  Wesleyan  body  in  this  country,  to  say,  whether  Ic  is  thus 
with  the  societies  genordly,  or  that  similar  developments 
would  be  exhibited  in  case  of  a  revival  \u  other  towns  of  the 


"^f^aMiiii 


rt»rt 


<nr- 


B22 


RAMBLES  AAOUNO  LBEOS. 


kingdom.  My  mind  has  been  greatly  exercised  about  it ; 
but  in  my  communications  to  America  I  have  refrained  from 
speculations,  and  entertained  my  correspondents  with  plain 
matters  of  fact,  which  fell  under  my  own  observation. 

You  know  how  easy  it  is  for  a  stranger,  passing  rapidly 
through  a  country,  to  form  opinions  the  most  erroneous  and 
absurd,  of  the  real  state  of  society. 

America  has  suffered  severely  in  this  way  by  travellers. 
Full  of  prejudice,  and  determined  to  pander  to  the  vitiated 
taste  of  their  countrymen  at  home ;  having  neither  time, 
disposition,  nor  perhaps  capabilities  to  examine  into  the  true 
state  of  American  society ;  but  driven  on,  by  the  force  of 
II  i  circumstances,  to  write  a  book  and  travel  too ;  "  wide  awake  " 

to  all  the  peculiarities  of  that  society  with  which  they  have 
the  honor  to  mingle,  namely,  bar-room  heroes,  stage-coach 
characters,  uid  the  promiscuous  crowd  of  men  of  all  nations 
under  heaven,  on  the  crowded  street  of  the  city,  or  deck 
of  the  steamer,  (to  say  nothbg  of  the  fictitious,)  they  are 
*'  enabled  to  draw  to  the  life  the  national  character  of  the 
Yankees."  Their  productions  are  published  to  the  world, 
and  read  with  avidity,  and  credited;  while  it  is  plam  to 
those  who  have  spent  many  years  m  that  country,  that  their 
readers  are  still  in  total  ignorance  about  American  manners 
an<l  the  real  condition  of  the  population. 

IN^otlung  can  be  more  unjust ;  and  American  institutions, 
moral,  reli^ous,  political,  and  scientific,  have  been  caricatured 
from  such  sources  of  information. 

"  Where  othen  toil  with  philocopbio  forae, 
Their  nimble  nonsenge  takes  a  shorter  coarse ; 
Flings  at  your  head  convictions  in  a  lump, 
And  gains  remote  conclusions  at  a  jump." 

But  to  return  to  the  subject ;  wherever  such  revival  dis 
closures  occur,  whether  in  Europe  or  America,  the  matter 
is  worthy  of  the  most  serious  consideration.     If  the  new 


MWMtMMAtfnMByMUaHMaHM 


[.EKDS. 

tly  exercised  about  it; 
1  I  have  reframed  from 
Tospondents  with  plain 
own  observation, 
ranger,  passing  rapidly 
the  most  erroneous  and 

this  way  by  travellers. 

pander  to  the  vitiated 
;  having  neither  time, 
9  examine  into  the  true 
en  on,  by  the  force  of 
rel  too ;  "  wide  awake  " 
1  with  which  they  have 
>m  heroes,  stage-coach 
1  of  men  of  all  nations 
t  of  the  city,  or  deck 
le  fictitious,)  they  are 
ional  character  of  the 
lublished  to  the  world, 
l;  while  it  is  plain  to 
txat  country,  that  their 
out  American  manners 
m. 

American  institutions, 
,  have  been  caricatured 

io  foroe, 
horter  conne ; 
in  a  lump, 
i  a  jump." 

ever  such  revival  dis 
>  America,  the  matter 
eration.     If  the  neir 


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RAMBLES   AnOUND   LEEDS 


823 


birth  is  the  hinge  upon  which  the  salvation  or  damnation  of 
the  soul  must  turn,  so  many  persons,  living  destitute  of  such 
a  change,  and  within  the  bosom  of  a  church,  so  clear,  doc- 
trinally  and  experimentally,  upon  this  point,  is  a  most  serious 
and  awful  afiair.    Were  I  to  venture  any  thing  like  an  opin- 
ion, I  would  say,  the  cause  might  be  traced  to  the  entire 
absence  of,  or  long  intervals  between,  powerful  revivals  of 
religion.    Where  this  is  the  case,  there  would  be  as  much 
likelihood  to  find  m  such  societies  a  healthy  and  vigorous 
membership,  as  a  population  enjoying  excellent  health  though 
unvisited  for  years  by  the  purifying  breezes  of  heaven.    Wo 
need  a  gale  every  now  and  then  to  sweep  through  the  streets 
and  lanes  of  our  great  towns  to  carry  ofi"  the  smoke  and 
unhealthy  exhalations.    And  thus  it  is  in  a  spiritual  sense 
with  the  church  of  God ;  she  needs  a  revival  breeze.    Our 
Lord  compared  the  operations  of  the  Spirit  to  the  wind, 
which  bloweth  where  it  listeth ;  and  we  still  want  the  out- 
pouring of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  in  some  places  nothing  but 
a  tornado  can  clarify  the  spiritual  atmosphere,  so  as  to  ren- 
der it  fit  to  breathe  in,  or  to  see  heaven  through  by  faith  — 
such  as  that  which  came  in  a  sound  from  heaven,  as  of  a 
rushing  mighty  wind,  filling  all  our  places  of  worship,  and 
the  heart  of  every  worshipper ;  shaking  the  place,  and  set- 
ting the  town  in  an  uproar,  as  Jerusalem  in  days  of  old. 
Acts  ii.  and  iv.  31.     And  blessed  be  God,  this  is  in  fuU 
accordance  with  that  verse  which  they  sing  vigorously  iH 
this  country,  as  well  as  in  America :  —  * 

"  Like  mighty  winds,  or  torrenU  fierce,  '": 

Let  it  oppoters  all  o'errun ; 
And  every  law  of  sin  reverse, 
Tliat  faith  and  love  may  make  all  one," 

A  neglect  upon  the  part  of  ministers  and  Icadmg  members 
to  carry  out  fully  a  revival  where  it  has  commenced,  or  «n 


824 


RAMBLBS  AROnin>  LBBDS. 


indispoBition  to  live  for  and  perpetuate  a  sucoesdon  of  thoso 
gracious  visitations,  weakens  the  church  of  Gk>d,  and  grieves 
the  Holy  Spirit. 

A  certain  town,  for  instance,  is  favored  ^ith  a  remarkable 
outpouring  of  the  Spirit,  with  or  without  extraordinary  instru- 
mentality, and  a  large  increase  of  converted  souls  is  realized 
by  that  church.  Now,  if  instead  of  a  vigorous  co-operation 
with  God  for  a  continuation  of  the  revival,  (and  I  can  see 
no  reason  why  it  should  stop,  while  a  backsUder  remains  to 
be  reclaimed,  or  an  unconverted  sinner  in  the  town ;  though 
the  flame  may  not  for  a  time  catch  upon  sinners,  it  need 
never  lose  its  intensity  in  the  hearts  of  believers,)  they 
grow  weary  in  well  doing,  and  desire  something  else  more 
than  the  salvation  of  sinners ;  the  Spirit  of  God  is  then 
grieved,  a  blight  comes  on  the  church,  and  a  general  dead- 
ness  will  be  the  consequence,  and  most  probably  the  melan- 
choly relapse  of  the  new  converts. 

But  supposing  the  revival  to  have  ceased,  let  the  church 
be  alive  for  its  recommencement ;  and  whether  their  faith  be 
fixed  on  God  for  a  revival  now,  in  the  regular  means  of 
grace,  or  in  the  "  special  services  "  intended  for  next  month, 
the  effects  must  ever  be  the  most  salutary.  The  church  of 
God  is  by  that  means  kept  in  action, — brought  into  the 
field, — and  activity  is  the  spring-tide  of  reli^ous  feeling. 
Methodism,  from  the  beginning,  has  been  a  system  of  aggrea- 
non  against  the  dcidl  and  all  lus  works ;  let  her  keep  to  this, 
and  she  will  multiply  her  numbers  and  increase  both  in  powei 
and  influence.  Whenever  and  wherever  she  loses  this  dis- 
tingvdslung  feature  in  her  economy,  she  must  dwindle  away 
into  insigmficance.  I  have  never  yet  seen  it  fail ;  and  the 
catastrophe  has  always  been  in  proportion  to  the  length  of 
time  since  she  ceased  to  be  the  aggressor.  It  is  not  enough 
that  Methodism  is  enabled  to  stand  on  the  defensive,  and 


EBDS. 


RaMBLES  ARCUND  LBEDS. 


825 


B  a  Buccesnon  of  ihoae 
x)h  of  God,  and  grieves 

ored  with  a  remarkable 
ut  ejiitraordinary  instra- 
[verted  souls  is  realized 
a  vigorous  co-operation 
evival,  (and  I  can  see 
I  backslider  remains  to 
it  in  the  town ;  though 
L  upon  sinners,  it  need 
ts  of  believers,)  they 
i  something  else  more 
Spirit  of  God  is  then 
h,  and  a  general  dead- 
ist  probably  the  melan- 

I  ceased,  let  the  church 
I  whether  their  faith  be 
the  regular  means  of 
itended  for  next  month, 
iitary.  The  church  of 
ion, — brought  into  the 
de  of  reli^ous  feeling, 
loen  a  system  of  aggret- 
cs ;  let  her  keep  to  this, 
i  increase  both  in  powei 
ever  she  loses  this  dis- 
he  must  dwindle  awa;^ 
)t  seen  it  fail ;  and  the 
ortion  to  the  length  of 
sssor.  It  is  not  enou^ 
1  on  the  defensive,  and 


hold  her  own ;  if  this  be  all,  a  very  small  part  of  the  designs 
of  God  are  answered  ;  and  she  has  little  more  than  half  her 
glory.  Acquisition  should  never  be  effiiced  from  her  banners. 
The  devil's  territory  must  be  Invaded  till  earth  and  hell  are 
aroused  against  her  aggressive  movements.  Then,  and  not 
till  then,  shall  Methodimn  be  in  die  meri^an  glory  of  her 
usefulness. 

I  have  ever  eonsidetad  iuli  atiti-f  evival  Methodist  preacher 
as  a  phenomenon  in  Methodism.  It  would  be  almost  as  dif- 
ficult for  a  man  of  Ihat  character,  unless  a  consummate  hyp- 
ocrite, to  get  into  the  ranks  of  American  Methodism,  as  for 
a  Jesuit;  and  I  beUeve  the  remark  ^rill  equally  apply  to 
Wesleyan  Methodism  \A  these  kingdoms.  I  can,  however, 
cafdly  conceive  how  a  minister  may  lose  the  fife  of  God  out 
of  his  fiottl,  and  fearfully  backslide  from  first  principles.  A 
criminal  indifference  to  Kealous  efforts  for  the  salvation  of 
einners  may  charaeteriace  his  movements.  Is  it  not  possible 
for  him  to  Impart  the  saiae  feeling  to  {Jie  officers  of  the 
«hurch  during  the  years  of  his  siay  upon  the  circuit  ?  Sup- 
pose, that  at  the  end  of  lus  term  the  church  is  cursed  with 
Mother  of  a  similar  Spirit,  the  results  u|)oia  the  cause  of  God 
are  too  evident  to  need  cnlai'gemcnt  here.  There  have  been 
mournful  cases  of  that  kind,  as  you  very  well  know,  in 
America,  till  lihb  conference  has  been  under  Uie  necessity  to 
request  them  to  *'  sit  down; "  that  is,  to  cease  the  itmerancy ; 
and  why  ?  Because  of  ain  ahnost  universd  protest  against 
receiving  them  from  the  circuits  wittun  the  bounds  of  the 
conference. 

It  has  been  ruled  by  some,  and  in  hi^  placei§  too,  that 
the  flock  are  juSt  what  the  pastors  choose  to  make  them. 
This  precept,  though  extensive,  is  not  of  universal  applica- 
tion. "Like  people,  like  priest,"  says  the  prophet  Hosea; 
— as  you  find  the  people,  so  you  shall  the  priest.  ThSt 
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RAMBLES  AROUND   LBEDS. 


1 


looks  like  tracing  effects  to  their  cause.  But  another  holy 
prophet,  Isaiah,  after  all  his  faithful  labor,  found  his  people 
what  he  would  not,  and  mournfully  complied,  "  I  have 
labored  in  vain,  I  have  spent  my  strength  for  nought,  and  in 
vain ; "  and  mquired,  "  Who  hath  believed  our  report  ?  and 
to  whom  is  the  arm  of  the  Lord  revealed  ?  " 

There  have  been  places  where  ministers  have  worked 
themselves  into  the  grave  in  ineffectual  efforts  for  a  revival. 

I  have  known  branches  of  our  church  settle  down  and 
cease  to  look  for  another  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  con- 
tented to  glide  along  from  year  to  year,  without  any  revival, 
till  their  feeble  and  sickly  state,  and  the  wickedness  of 
dinners  around  them,  became  notorious. 

Where  there  is  no  anxiety  about  a  revival,  in  the  hearts 
of  the  leading  members  of  the  church,  it  is  not  to  be  expected 
they  will  make  that  sacrifice  of  time  and  strength,  required 
by  the  Holy  Ghost,  to  bring  about  such  an  important  triumph 
of  the  gospel.  The  inconsistency  is  greater  where  such  an 
event  is  prayed  for  in  b'ncerity,  while  a  reluotanoy  is  indulged 
to  employ  the  necessary  means. 

Whether  any  of  these  propositions  apply  to  the  past  his- 
tory of  the  Methodist  church  in  Leeds,  and  in  the  other 
towns  I  have  vimted,  I  cannot  determine. 

You  remember  the  great  revival  in  *  *  *.  Long  and 
anxiously  did  they  desire  a  revival ;  but  entertuned  at  the 
same  time  an  aversion  to  extraordinary  means.  And  why  ? 
Lest  the  ordiuary  services,  which  they  admitted  were  inef- 
ficient, should  be  brought  into  discredit  by  the  extraordinary; 
as  if  another  gospel  was  to  be.  preached  in  the  latter,  while 
in  fact,  the  proposal  was,  only  to  preach  the  gospel  a  little 
oflener,  —  say  every  night  in  the  week  in  the  same  chapel, 
instead  of  one  or  two  mghts.  God,  agun  and  again,  both 
by  his  providence  and  the  example  and  successes  of  other 


Miib 


LEEDS. 

ise.  But  another  holy 
labor,  found  his  people 
f  complwned,  "I  have 
sngth  for  nought,  and  in 
elieved  our  report  ?  and 
jaled?" 

ministers  have  worked 
ual  efforts  for  a  revival, 
church  settle  down  and 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  con- 
;ar,  without  any  revival, 
iiai  the  wickedness  of 
us. 

a  revival,  in  the  hearts 
,,  it  is  not  to  be  expected 
and  strength,  required 
ch  an  important  triumph 
I  greater  where  such  an 
a  reluotanoy  is  indulged 

IS  apply  to  the  past  his- 

leeds,  and  in  the  other 

mne. 

1  in  *  *  *.    Long  and 

but  entertuned  at  the 
ary  means.  And  why  ? 
bey  admitted  were  inef- 
lit  by  the  extraordinary ; 
ihed  in  the  latter,  while 
each  the  gospel  a  little 
iek  in  the  same  chapel, 
,  agiun  and  agun,  both 

and  successes  of  other 


t^ 


RAluIiliES  AROUND  LEEDS. 


827 


churches,  invited  them  to  "cooperate  ^-ith  bim,m  a  diwct 
and  continued  attack  upon  the  devil's  kingdom.  But,  JNo, 
the  preaching  on  the  Sabbath  is  excellent;  and  if  sinners 
are  not  aroused  and  converted  by  such  preaching  as  we  have 
now,  they  ought  to  be  damned."  They  did  not  see  that  it 
i3  with  mind  as  it  is  with  matter— hammer  long  enough  upon 
a  rock,  and  you  will  break  it  in  pieces;  repeat  your  stiokes 
upon  mind,  and  it  must  also  break  down.  Every  body  knows, 
that  one  day  in  the  week,  however  heavy  the  hammer  and 
rapid  the  blows,  cannot  axscomplish  so  much,  as  if  the  same 
were  wielded  every  day  of  the  week. 

No  man  in  that  town  could  have  prevailed  upon  the  lead- 
in-r  members  of  that  church,  to  carry  into  their  business 
operations  the  same  principles  they  had  adopted  for  a  revival 
of  religion-work  one  day  and  rest  six.  Thus  they  con- 
tinned  several  years.  A  few  were  converted  m  that  tune, 
and  many  were  impressed  with  the  truth,  and  jomed  the 
church,  and  met  in  class :  — 

"But  the  place  designed  for  growth  in  grace, 
Became  their  spiritnal  landing-place." 

They  never  grew  at  all,  because  they  had  not  been  bom  of 
the  Spirit.  With  the  exception  of  numbers,  some  of  the 
classes  resembled  a  Popish  confessional;  the  «  experience 
was  scarcely  a  whisper,  an.^  none  heard  it  but  ^^  ^^\i 
and  some  were  dumbies  who  could  saynothing.  What  is 
recorded  in  2  Kings  xix.  3,  might  truly  be  said  of  that 
<'.urch;  she  had  various  troubles  and  rebukes  from  God, 
and  blasphemies  from  a  worid  of  wickedness ;  for  the  chd- 
dren  were  brought  to  the  birth,  and  there  was  no  power  to 

bring  forth.  ^  ,  , 

After  years  had  passed  away,  and  some  of  these  unhappy 
persons  had  died,  and  probably  slipped  away  into  heU,  the 
Lord  heard  the  siglung  of  the  prisoners,  who  yet  contanu«|^' 


nuHWMaiM 


888 


BAMBLBS  AROUND  LEEDS. 


in  his  church,  and  the  secret  supplications  of  some  of  the 
excellent  of  the  earth.    Preachers  and  people,  with  another 
man  of  God  who  had  come  by  special  invitation,  humbled 
themselves  before  the  Lord  of  Hosts.    The  house  of  God 
was  thrown  open  day  and  mght.    Battle  was  ^ven  against 
the  works  of  darkness.     The  population  ran  together,  and 
cried,  ''What  meaneth  tins?    Are  you  mad  or  djruftk?" 
"  We  are  neither ;  but  come  out  every  night,  this  week  and 
next,  and  learn  the  secret."   The  burmng  truths  of  God  wore 
showered  upon  sinners  during  eight  or  nine  days.   At  length 
God  shook  the  heavens  and  the  earth,  the  Spirit  of  God  was 
poured  out  upon  the  people,  hundreds  of  the  sinners  in  Zion 
were  bom  ag{un,  while  God  added  daily  to  his  yictorious 
chwch  scores  of  converted  souls  from  the  world.    But  this 
wt^  succeedod  by  a  hunuliating  difficulty.    They  might  as 
vrell  have  tried  to  keep  the  thunder  a  secret  as  this  revival, 
^e  report  of  it  spread  fiur  and  wide ;  many  came  from  a 
great  distance  to  witness  the  conquering  power  of  the  gospel 
of  Christ.     All  who  had  seen  or  heard  of  it,  expected 
an  amasdng  increase  of  members.    Although  it  was  large, 
yet  when  piatters  came  to  be  afted,  it  was  not  at  all  in 
proportion  to  the  numbers  reported  to  have  been  saved, 
and  the  reaction  was  injurious  for  a  time.    An  astonishing 
monument  of  the  revival  had  been  rsdsed,  and  the  church 
was  a  living  flame,  but  this  did  not  satisfy  those  inclined  to 
Qnd  fault.    The  insinuations  of  carnal  professors  were  even 
more  annoying  than  those  from  the  world.    They  had  been 
reproved  in  conscience  for  their  inactivity  during  the  revival ; 
and  now,  it  seemed  as  if  they  enjoyed  a  secret  satisfaction 
at  what  they  called  "  the  failure  of  the  movement."    But 
the  numsters,  leaders,  and  those  who  were  devoted  to  God, 
knew  the  benefit  derived  too  well  to  be  weakened.    They 
were  all  along  aware,  that  the  majority  of  those  converted, 


•  WvT«MM«Tu«MMai 


hi^lMl— iBWiWwMilMllim 


ml  iiih  i^iUiiliHWfc 


SDS. 

itions  of  some  of  tibo 
people,  with  another 
1  invitation,  humbled 
The  house  of  God 
ie  was  ^ven  against 
on  ran  tpgether,  and 
)u  mad  or  ckrunk?" 
night,  this  week  and 
ttg  truths  of  God  wore 
unedayft.   At  length 
he  Spirit  of  God  was 
of  the  sinners  in  Zion 
Euly  to  his  notorious 
the  world.    But  this 
ulty.    They  might  as 
secret  as  this  revival. 
i ;  many  came  from  a 
g  power  of  the  gospel 
eard  of  it,  expected 
although  it  was  large, 
,  it  was  not  at  all  in 
to  have,  been  saved, 
ime.    An  asto^hing 
osed,  and  the  church 
,tisf;r  those  inclined  to 
professors  were  even 
)rld.    They  had  been 
ity  during  the  revival ; 
L  a  secret  satisfaction 
;he  movement."    But 
were  devoted  to  God, 
)  be  weakened.    They 
ty  of  those  converted, 


RAMBLES  AROUND  LBBDS. 


829 


were  unconverted  or  backslidden  members ;  these,  with  the 
large  increase,  more  than  they  had  had  for  many  years,  and 
the  high  tone  of  religious  feeling  in  the  church,  enabled 
them  to  reply  to  the  cavillers,  "  We  are  well  repaid  for  a 
few  weeks'  hard  and  glorious  hibor.  We  shaU  certainly  use 
the  very  same  means  for  another  revival,  within  a  few  months 
from  now.  In  the  mean  time  we  shall  endeavor  to  train 
these  new  converts  for  nobler  doings  in  the  church  of  God. 
We  sb«ill  get  all  things  in  readiness  for  another  battle.  We 
see  plunly,  that  it  is  only  preaching  the  gospel  a  little 
oftener,  and  with  the  Holy  Ghost  sent  down  from  heaven. 
If  the  Lord  has  done  bo  much  for  us  under  such  disadvan- 
tages, what  may  we  not  expect  during  another  campaign, 
seeing  that  we  have  so  many  hundreds  more  of  convertfld 
souls  to  bring  into  the  field  ?  " 

Again  and  again,  you  are  aware,  has  that  church  been 
visited  with  such  outpourings  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  tall  not  a 
dog  dare  move  his  tongue  against  a  revival.  Exod.  xi.  7. 
You  may  possibly  recollect  my  reading  you  an  extract  from 
the  Annual  Address  of  the  British  Conference  to  the  Wes- 
leyan  Methodists,  in  1839  or  1840.  It  was  a  source  of  great 
encouragement  to  me,  as  it  showed  that  the  ministers  of  the 
Wesleyan  church  had  not  varied  a  hair-breadth  from  first 
principles.  "  Some  churches  regard  revivals  of  reli^on  aa 
gracious  singularities  in  their  history;  we  regard  them  as 
essential  to  our  existence.  If  a  regular  series  of  divine 
visitations,  issuing  in  the  converaon  of  anners,  bo  not  vouch 
safed  to  us,  we  must  either  change  the  spiritual  constitution 
of  our  discipline  or  we  shall  pine  away  from  among  th© 
tribes  of  God's  Israel." 

In  no  town  that  I  have  hitherto  visited,  has  the  work  of 
entire  sanctification  advanced  with  such  swiftness,  power, 
and  distinctness,  as  in  this  town.    Hundreds  were  raised  up 
28* 


m 


RAMBLES  ABOUND  LEBDS 


to  testify,  in  the  clearest  manner,  that  the  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  had  cleansed  them  from  all  ain.  More  than  once, 
however,  it  has  been  hinted  in  certain  companies,  that  the 
majority  of  theso  had  only  experienced  a  larger  degree  of 
justifying  grace;  in  a  few  doya  oc  weeks  from  now,  they 
would  come  down  from  such  flights,  ai^  be.  content  with  the 
level  of  the  justified  ones.  Were  I  called  upop  for  a^  reply, 
I  would  say,  it  may  be  so,  and  most  likely  i«;i^  be  so,  ii^  thoir 
testimony  be  treated  with  unwarrantable,  sv^^pipion  by  t^eir 
fellow  members.  Lot  this  holy  flamo  be  &nnied  by  fireqi^ent 
and  clear  sermons  on  this  doctrine,  and  lei;  aU  those,  who 
have  professed  this  great  blessing  be  e^iorted  to  ho]ld  it  %tt  i 
and  should  any  such  suffer  loss,  let  the  whole  church  cry  to 
God  for  their  recovery.  Moreover,  let  the  punned  Efo>ula  be 
encouraged  to  bear  a  distinct  and  w:eekly  tostimony  to  what 
God  has  done  for  then^,  without  apy  ajmpying  mwny^ions, 
unless  their  conduct  contxadict  their  p]i;ofessioA»  lot  ^l?>>  ^ 
treated  in  a  loving  but  searching  manner ;  a^  i^  they  hftvo 
been  nustaken,  they  may  not  be  di^ouragied,  buA  obtain  the 
very  thing  after  which  thehr  eager  aoul^  hayo  been  so  sin- 
cerely aspiring.  At  tho  same  1»mie  let  ^  tho  Lord's  people 
be  ediorted  to  press  into  this  glorious  liberty  of  the  sons  of 
God,  now,  by  umpl?  &ith,;  and  this  ifevival  of  entire  sancti- 
fication  need  never  stop,  till  <he.  eD,ti;re  Weedeyan  church  ia 
Leeds  is  saved,  to  sin  no  motf^- 

After  Mr.  Oattghey  left  Leed%  those  enemies  to  revivals, 
who  could  not  in  the  face  of  facts  deny  tbfl^  a  nighty  wocK 
was  wrought,  reported  that  a  decline  in  reli^n  had  sue 
ceeded  his  labors,  owing  to  the  great  instability  of  the  con 
verts.  But  this  malignant  falsehood  found  its  contradiotio» 
in  the  nunutes  of  the  Annual  Conferences,  for  they  showed 
that  while  the  numbers  in  society  bad  been  gradually 


^luWHtuvrsawi 


•^mm 


BOS 

t  the  blood  of  Josug 
a.  More  than  once, 
I  compaoies,  that  the 
i  a  larger  degiree  of 
ceks  from  now,  they 
d  be  content  with  the 
k!led  upop  for  9,  r«plj, 
ely  Y^  be  so,  ii^  th^ir 
>le,  av^fa^iQn  by  t^eir 
>e  £uuved  by  fireqi^ent 
nd  leij  all  those  who 
lorted  tQ  ho^  it  %tt ; 
)  whol^  Ql)urch  cry  to 
I  the  pvri^ed  Efwla  be 
idy  t^^mony  to  wjhat 
janpyiiig  mainViq.!don8, 
ofes^ipp,;  let  them,  be 
er ;  and  i^  they  h^ve 
iragied,  but  obtain  the 
^  hayo  been  so  sin- 
tjil,  thQ  Lord's  people 
liberty  of  the  sons  of 
vival  of  entire  sancti- 
a  T^ealeyan  church  im 


9  enemies  to  revivals, 
f  tbftit  a  nighty  work 

in  religjbn  had  sue 
instability  of  the  con 
}und  its  contradiotiiO^ 
Qces,  for  they  showed 

had  been  gradually 


RAMBLES  AROUND  LBBDS. 


881 


declimng  in  Leeds  from  1840  to  1848,  the  penod  of  Mr. 
Caugbey's  labors,  there  was  an  increase  of  five  hundred 
members  reported  at  the  fbllowing  Conference,  and  the  circmt 
continued  to  prosper  from  the  impulse  it  then  received. 

After  leaving  Leeds,  Mr.  Caughey  made  a  short  tour  on 
the  contment,  in  which  he  passed  rapidly  through  portions  of 
France,  Holland,  Prussia,  Germany,  and  Switzerland,  making 
observations  on  men  and  mamiors,  and  gathering  "jfonnabon 
adapted  to  freshen  hi3  miud  and  prepare  hmi  for  further 
labors  in  his  Master's  vineyard.  .    .,,.„,., 

His  account  of  this  toui  is  contamed  m  his  Letters,  but 
for  want  of  space  we  are  compeUed  to  pass  over  them  alto- 
gether.  On  his  return  from  the  continent  we  find  him 
^suming  his  pleasant  toils  in  the  town  of  Hull;  for  >a 
account  of  which  the  reader  must  peruse  the  nert  cUpter. 


.■MMHiptilllll 


J 


CHAPTER    XX. 


OLORIOTTS  WORK  OF  QOD  IN  HULL. 


I 


Tub  following  chapter  is  rich  in  incident.  It  exhibits  the 
grace  of  God  in  one  of  its  most  wonderful  manifestations. 
God  is  seen  riding  gloriously  in  the  Revival  Chariot,  and  the 
Cross  triumphs  over  the  Serpent,  to  the  confusion  of  sinners 
and  the  joj  of  saints.  Such  displays  of  heavenly  power,  as 
were  made  in  the  Waltham  street  chapel,  show  that  the 
modem  church  may  have  its  days  of  Pentecost  as  well  as 
the  ancient.  0,  for  that  fidelity  to  God !  that  praying  faith, 
which,  with  holy  violence,  takes  the  kmgdom  of  God  by 
force ! 

The  reader  irill  remember  that  the  visit  of  Mr.  Caughey 
to  Hull  took  place  in  the  autumn  of  1843,  directly  after  his 
return  from  his  first  continental  tour.  He  had  been  in  Hull 
some  weeks  when  he  wrote  the  following  account  of  the  work 
to  a  fnend  in  America : — 

During  the  first  two  weeks  I  had  very  straitened  times  m 
preaching ;  frequently,  indeed,  my  mouth  was  almost  closed. 
Do  you  understand  this  ?  I  had  difficulty  in  getting  ideas, 
and  qmte  as  much  in  expressing  them ;  as  if  they  would  die 
away  on  my  lips.  I  could  only  account  for  these  humiliating 
times  on  the  supposition  that  they,  (the  Methodists,)  were 
depending  upon  an  "  arm  of  flesh,"  instead  of  trusting  in  the 
832 


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iiH>n»llfi'  Hi 


GLORIOUS  WOttiC  OP  QOD  IN  HULl. 


333 


X. 

Of  HULL. 

lent.  It  exhibits  the 
ierful  manifestationii. 
vival  Chariot,  and  the 
)  confufiion  of  sinnera 
f  heavenly  power,  aa 
bapel,  show  that  the 
Pentecost  as  well  aa 
I !  that  praying  faith, 
kingdom  of  God  by 

eisit  of  Mr.  Caughey 
43,  directly  after  his 
He  had  been  in  Hull 
I  account  of  the  work 


y  straitened  times  in 
th  was  almost  closed. 
Ity  in  getting  ideas, 
aa  if  they  would  die 
for  these  hunuliating 
e  Methodists,)  were 
ead  of  trusting  in  the 


Uving  God.  Tlioy  had  heard,  it  seems,  much  about  your 
friend;  expectation  was  "on  tiptoe;"  nothing  was  looked 
for  but  some  mighty  and  sweeping  arguments,  with  burst*  of 
commanding  eloquence,  which  would  carry  every  thing  bo- 
fore  them,  mowing  down  sinners  by  hundreds.  Had  tticir 
faith  been  fixed  in  God  for  this,  it  is  not  unlikely  he  would 
have  honored  it,  by  an  immediate  putting  forth  of  hia  power, 
in  an  extraordinary  manner.  This  was  a  sore  trial  to  me ; 
and  my  divine  a^aster  continued  tp  let  m  down  lower  and 

One  night,  duriipg  tins  humiliation,  an  intelligent  member 
said  to  her  huaband,  aa  tiiey  were  returning  home,  "  That 
good  man  should  not  take  a  text  at  all."  My  soul  was  pros- 
trated and  humbled  before  God  and  man,  and  mourned  m 
the  dust.  The  Rev.  William  Illingworth,  one  of  the  mm- 
istora  stationed  in  tiiia  town,  one  evening  after  preaching, 
explained  to  me,  in  a  pleasant  but  serious  manner,  tiie  great 
hinderance  in  the  way  of  a  revival.  It  ia  not  necessary  to 
repeat  ti»e  conversation,  as  tiio  substaace  ia  incorporated  m 
the  above,  but  his  concludmg  advice  went  deep  into  my 
heart :  "  Hold  on ;  preach  aa  you  can ;  by-and-by  tiie  peo- 
ple will  k^  hold  of  the  tiirone  of  grace  for  tiiemselvcs,  by 
faith  awl  prayer.  They  will  not  do  this,  however,  tiU  they 
have  leamed  Ut«  uaeftd  lesson— win  can  do  wthing,  :?beu 
we  shaU  have  a,  breaking  down,  awsh  aa  you  hav^  n«t  seon^ 
Thia  you  may  dependi  uppn." 

Tbia  ennjouraged  me ;  tfA  we  ch^erfiiHy,  botiv  m  pi;each 
ing  a»d  in  \mm  exhortations,  labored  to  ahow  the  people 
that  witiwut  w  influence  fiom  aboye,  the  gospel,  witi^  all 
oux  effbrta,  must  oo^tin^e  a  dead  letter.    Gehaai  waa.se^it 
by  his  master  (*2  Kings  iv.)  to  h»y  tiie  staff  of  Eliaha  upon 

tiie  fiwe  of  the  dead  chJW  of  the  Shunaflunite.    Gehaa  ^an. 
expeotii«toiap,WQude»;  jiwtwaoBW  tiui*o£  accomplish 


rr- 


m 


riiiWtiihiirtiiiitii' 


libit  imi»YttiMntf« 


881 


OLOBIOUS   WORK   OP  OOD   IN  HULL, 


*jig  great  things  by  their  mormons,  without  a  proper  depend- 
ence upon  the  Holy  Giiost,  and  are  doomed  to  a  signal 
disappointment.  Gchazi  laid  the  staff  upon  the  "  head  "  of 
the  child ;  like  ministers  of  the  gospel,  who  endeavor  to  driv<» 
the  life  of  reli^on  into  the  hearts  of  sinners,  by  att&oking 
the  head,  the  intellect  only.  He  stood  by  the  corpse,  anx- 
iously watching  the  process,  and  hoping,  no  doubt,  U>  have 
the  miracle  wrought  before  his  master  arrived !  But  tho 
child  romained  as  dead  as  the  staff.  "  There  wa<}  neither 
voice  nor  hearing."  Satisfied,  at  length,  that  the  means  had 
totally  failed — I  doubt  whether  the  man  speut  five  mmutefi 
in  agonizing  prayer  for  the  recovery  of  the  child — discour- 
aged, Gehazi  went  out  to  meet  Elisha,  exclaiming  as  they 
met,  "  The  child  is  not  awaked  ! "  I  wish  all  pious  people, 
and  all  unsuccessful  ministers,  would  thus  return  to  their 
Lord  and  Master,  saying,  "  The  staff — the  sermon  has  been 
applied  to  the  sinner's  head  and  heart —but  he  b  not  atrak- 
ened ! "  Ijet  them  see  to  it,  however,  that  they  fall  down 
and  agonize  with  God,  in  the  presence  of  the  sinner,  and 
leave  no  means  untried,  before  they  sink  into  despondency, 
and  return  forlornly  to  their  God,  as  Gehazi  to  lus  master. 
Elisha  said  nothing,  but  went  into  the  house,  entered  the 
chamber  of  death,  and  remained  there  alone  with  the  ccrpse, 
praying  to  God.  After  which,  he  "lay  upon"  the  dead 
boy,  "  and  put  his  mouth  upon  his  mouth,  and  his  eyes  upon 
his  eyes,  and  his  hands  upon  his  hands ;  and  he  stretched 
himself  upon  the  child,  and  the  flesh  of  the  child  waxed 
warm."  The  miiuster  of  Christ  must  address  himself  to  the 
whole  man,  if  he  will  have  the  dead  sinner  raised  to  life ; 
tihe  passions  must  be  warmed  and  excited,  as  well  as  the 
eyes  of  the  understanding  opened.  Elisha  then  arose  "  and 
walked  in  the  house  to  and  fro,"  no  doubt  greatly  moved  in 
himself,  and  crying  earnestly  to  God.    Again  he  repeated 


.'"W^%W 


)   IN  HULL, 

ithout  a  proptir  dopcnd- 
■e  dooinod  to  a  uignal 
ff  upon  the  "  head  "  of 
I,  who  endeavor  to  drive* 
)f  ainners,  by  attacking 
)od  by  the  corpse,  anx- 
tping,  no  doubt,  tu  have 
ster  arrived  !  But  the 
'.  "  There  wa<3  neither 
gth,  that  the  moans  had 
man  spent  five  minuter 
of  the  child — diacour- 
iha,  excltuming  as  thej 
[  wish  all  pious  people, 
1  thus  return  to  tiieir 
— the  sermon  has  been 
b— but  he  is  not  a^ak- 
er,  that  they  fall  down 
ince  of  the  sinner,  and 
sink  into  despondency, 
s  Oehazi  to  Us  master, 
the  house,  entered  the 
B  alone  with  the  cci-pse, 
"lay  upon"  the  dead 
outh,  and  his  eyes  upon 
inds ;  and  he  stretched 
sh  of  the  child  waxed 
t  address  himself  to  the 
d  sinner  raised  to  life  ; 
excited,  as  well  as  the 
Slisha  then  arose  "  and 
loabt  greatly  moved  in 
d.    Again  he  repeated 


(31CRIOU9   WOKK   OF  OOD   IS   UlTLL. 


835 


the  experiment  upon  tho  child,  using  the  means,  and  trusting 

in  the  H>^cr  '.f  a  miracle-working  God.     At  length  there 

vero  «'  ..«  0/  iife,  and  a  noise;  tho  child  snceujd  sovcu 

unies,  opened  his  ey%  and  was  restored  by  Elist  -,  alivo,  to 

hia  joyl«il  mother. 

"  Nol  by  might,  no.'  by  power,  but  by  my  Svint,  ttaUu  tho 
Lord  of  hosts."  Zech.  iv.  6.  "  Christ  had  io  k?y  t'i  open 
i^ydia's  heart,"  says  an  old  divine,  "but  St.  Paxil  imght 
have  pvcachcd  his  heart  out,  before  Lydia's  hv^art  ^m]i  have 
opened  to  let  the  word  in,  had  not  the  LoM  anderUkon  the 
work."  Acta  xvi.  14.  Christ  has  the  lej  to  the  human 
heart,  but  ho  must  turn  it,  or  it  will  rcmam  ob?bnately  and 
for  ever  shut  against  aU  the  preaching  thar  may  be  thundered 
at  the  door  1  The  word  of  God  is  a  seal,  (Rom.  vi.  17,  and 
Eph  iv.  30,)  but  it  requires  the  hand  of  the  Holy  Ghost  upon 
the  word,  in  order  to  an  impression.  As  powder  to  a  bullet, 
80  are  faith  and  love  in  the  heart  of  a  minister,  to  make  truth 

effective. 

The  people  of  God  were  exhorted  and  entreated  to  be- 
seech the  LKjrd  of  hosts  to  fiU  the  hearts  of  his  ministers  with 
the  Holy  Ghost  sent  down  from  heaven ;  they  were  t»ld 
agdn  and  again  that  the  weightiest  truth  could  accomplish 
notiiii:^  without  the  direct  agency  of  the  Spirit ;  that  with- 
out this  influence,  the  words  of  the  preacher  would  fell  liko 
feii^^er?  or  flakes  of  snow  upon  the  congregation,  and  with  a 
sicrkr  effect.    The  Lord  applied  such  truths  ae  the  above 
to  the  hearts  of  K,any.    The  spirit  of  prayer  de3i^en<led  upon 
tbe  people,  many  of  whom  were  now  in  an  agony  for  the 
converBon  of  sin/.sr-.    Hundreds  of  prayers  ascended  to 
he&v?c  every  day,  and  during  every  sermon,  for  "  the  out- 
pouriixg  o;  *-he  Holy  Spirit."    The  superintendent,  the  Itev. 
Robei  t  Thompson,  managed  the  prayer  meetings  admin»,bly ; 
and  his  colleaguej,  the  Rev.  William  Dlingworth,  and  the 


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aLORIOUS  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HULL. 


Rer.  John  "Vine,  came  up  to  the  help  of  the  Lord,  in  a  nohle 
and  energetic  manner.  The  people  of  God,  observing  how 
cordially  and  confidently  their  ministers  co-operated  in  the 
work,  were  cheered  and  encouraged  to  ^ve  all  the  aid  within 
their  power ;  their  numbers  increased  in  the  meetings  daily, 
and  good  men  from  every  part  of  the  town  rallied  around 
our  standard,  and  prayer  became  general.  "  The  effectual, 
fervent  prayer  of  a  ri^toous  man  availeth  much,"  says  St. 
James;  and  says  a  good  old  nmv'^ter,  *'If  one  trumpet 
sounds  so  loud  in  the  ears  of  God,  how  much  more  a  concert 
of  an  tlie  silver  trumpets  of  Zion  sounding  together.  If 
one  sigh  of  a  praying  man  wafts  the  bark  to  the  desired 
haven,  or  siirreth  icon's  ship,  how  much  more  a  gale  of  ffighs 
breathed  by  a  thousand  real  Christians.  Where  so  many 
hands  are  lifted  up,  how  many  blessings  may  they  not  pull 
down  from  heaven !  **  The  valley  of  dry  bones  ^as  stirred, 
(Ezek.  xxxvii.,)  "  There  was  a  noise,  and  behold  a  shaking." 
The  Spirit  of  God  now  moved  in  power,  and  breathed  upon 
the  slain,  and  they  lived,  and  "  stood  upon  their  feet,"  a  little 
army  of  three  bmdred  and  fifty  souls,  who  had  passed  from 
death  tmto  life.  More  than  one  half  of  tins  number  were 
already  members  of  the  Wcbleyan  church ;  some  of  whom 
had  backslidden  from  God,  and  others  had  never  been  convert- 
ed ;  the  remainder  Were  from  the  world.  We  found  also 
about  two  hundred  personi^,  who  had  withm  a  few  weeks  ex- 
perienced ttie  blesfflng  of  entire  sancttf^cation.  Thess.  v.  23, 
24.  All  glory  be  to  God !  From  George  Yard  chapel, 
(Methodist  places  of  Worship  are  all  called  chapels  in  this 
country;  some  memberd  of  the  Estiablishment  call  them 
"meeting-houses,"  others  "pr-  jhing-houses,"  to  degrade 
them  as  fair  as  pos^ble  from  their  churches ;  this.  Of  course, 
you  wouid  not  bear  in  America,)  we  adjourned  to  the  King 
ktoin  'diapel ;  a  new,  birge,  and  elegant  edifice. 


•■'-vjsTjikawmmM 


IN  HULL. 

of  the  Lord,  in  a  noble 
of  God,  observing  bow 
;er8  co-operated  in  the 

0  ffye  aU  the  aid  within 
in  the  meetings  daily, 

be  town  rallied  around 
aeral.  "  The  effectual, 
'aileth  much,"  says  St. 
ter,  "If  one  trumpet 
y  much  more  a  concert 
ounding  together.  If 
e  bark  to  the  desired 
[chmore  a  gale  of  sighs 
ans.  Where  so  many 
ings  may  they  not  pull 
dry  bones  ^as  stirred, 
and  behold  a  shaking." 
rer,  and  breathed  upon 
ipon  their  feet,"  a  little 
I,  who  had  passed  from 
If  of  this  number  were 
ihurch  ;  some  of  whom 
had  never  been  convert* 
irorld.  We  found  also 
witlmi  tk  few  weeks  ex- 
;i^eation.  Thess.  y.  23, 

1  George  Tard  chapel, 
I  called  chapels  in  this 
itiablishment  call  them 
g-houses,"  to  degrade 
irches ;  this,  of  course, 
idjoumed  to  the  King 
nt  edifice. 


QLORIOUS  WORK  OF  flOD  IN  HULL. 


887 


Considerable  fear  was  entertained  by  many,  as  to  the  re- 
sult of  a  special  effort  in  this  chapel,  as  it  was  a  new  interest, 
and  very  many  of  the  pew-holders  were  unconverted,  and 
not  a  few  of  them  comparative  strangers  to  Methodism.    But 
the  people  of  God  were  too  well  acquainted  with  the  source 
from  whence  we  obtained  our  victory  at  George  Yard,  to 
place  a  revival  in  tins  chapel  upon  the  ground  of  probabiliiy. 
Indeed  the  last  Saturday  evening  we  spent  at  George  Yard, 
previous  to  commencmg  at  Kingston,  the  Eev.  Mr.  Thomp^ 
son  told  them,  We  must  not  go  to  that  chapel  under  any 
other  feeling  than  an  unconquerable  and  unwavering  deter- 
nunation  to  obtain  a  glorious  wtory  for  the  Lord  God  of 
hosts.    He  then  offered  all  the  lovers  of  Jesus  in  that  band- 
meeting  a  "  motto,  and  a  watchword,"  to  circulate  through 
all  their  ranks ;  and  advised  it  shoiUd  be  the  language  of 
their  hearts  as  they  passed  along  the  streets  to  the  chapel, 
and  at  every  meeting  there,  Victoby  I  Viotory  ! !  ViOTO- 
BY !  II    You  know  my  sensitive  nature ;  how  easily  weak- 
ened, how  ready  to  be  encouraged  m  conflicts  such  as  these. 
My  soul  was  happy ;  I  felt  as  if  I  could  run  through  a  troop, 
and  leap  over  a  wall  I 

The  following  mormng  (Sabbath)  we  commenced  the 
«  special  services  "  at  Kinjpton ;  enjoyed  a  good  day,  and  a 
number  of  wnners  were  converted  to  God.  A  few  days  had 
only  passed  away,  whan  the  revival  was  advancing  with  all 
the  rapidity  and  power  it  had  at  George  Yard.  We  con- 
tinued to  fight  the  battles  of  the  Lord  m  this  chapel,  till  the 
30th  ult.,  when  it  was  ascertained  that  more  than  two  hun- 
dred rinners  had  been  converted  from  the  world,  besides 
seventy  or  eighty  members ;  there  were  also  two  hundred 
and  fifty  members  who  obtained  the  blessing  of  entire  sano- 
tifioation.  The  select  meeting  for  tiie  yoimg  donverts  was 
mnular  to  those  I  have  described  in  otiier  letters.  Unite 
29 


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Htm 


888 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  «aOD  IN  IIULL. 


Mith  me,  my  dear  friend,  in  giving  all  the  glory  to  God  for 
Buch  Wonderful  displays  of  his  power !  The  Lord  is  very 
good  to  me,  bis  unworthy  servant ;  and  I  am  sure  you  will 
assist  me  in  giving  him  thanks  for  his  great  mercy  in  multi- 
plymg  the  evidences,  that  my  mission  to  Europe  was  of  God. 
It  affords  me  great  pleasure  also,  to  say,  that,  under  God, 
much  of  this  success  has  been  owing  to  the  "  brotherly  kind- 
ness "  manifested  by  the  superintendent  and  his  worthy  col- 
leagues, during  my  stay  among  them.  Every  thing  was  done 
by  them  to  smooth  my  path,  and  to  open  to  me  a  wide  door 
of  usefr^ness  in  this  town;  and  with  such  genuine  good 
will  as  none  could  misunderstand.  It  was  seldom  that  there 
was  not  one  of  them  present  to  take  the  management  of  the 
prayer  meeting.  Some  of  their  exhortations,  especially 
those  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Illingworth,  were  among  the  most 
BoulHstirring  and  sinner-awakening  appeals  I  have  ever  heard. 
The  local  preachers  and  leaders,  among  whom  was  my  host, 
Mr.  William  Field,  entered  into  the  work  with  an  ardor  and 
success  I  have  never  seen  excelled.  Bless  the  Lord,  0  my 
soul,  and  all  that  is  within  me  praise  him,  that  he  has  per- 
mitted me  to  form  such  an  acquaintance  with  so  many  de 
voted  servants  of  the  living  God !  The  presence  of  the 
stationed  ministers  relieved  my  mind  from  a  weight  of  re- 
sponsibility ;  and  having  perfect  confidence  in  their  judgment 
I  was  saved  from  all  anxiety  from  that  quarter.  The  help  also 
of  so  many  men  of  deep  experience,  rendered  uimccessary 
those  exhausting  personal  efforts  with  penitents  after  preaching 
which  you  are  aware  have  worn  me  down  in  other  revivals. 
We  retuned  the  same  secretary  who  officiated  at  George 
Yard,  (Mr.  M.  •  ',)  by  which  means,  persons  who  had  relapsed 
into  doubt,  (which  frequently  happens  during  a  revival,)  and 
had  re-obtuned  a  clear  sense  of  the  pardoning  love  of  God, 
were  prevented  from  havmg  their  names  recorded  a  second 


'.::.. r..jssmiftm. 


IN  nULL. 

the  glory  to  God  for 
• !  The  Lord  is  very 
d  I  am  sure  you  will 
great  mercy  in  multi- 
to  Europe  was  of  God. 
say,  that,  under  God, 
0  the  "  brotherly  kind- 
nt  and  his  worthy  col- 

Every  thing  was  done 
pen  to  me  a  wide  door 
h  such  genuine  good 
was  seldom  that  there 
lie  management  of  the 
diortations,  especially 
irere  among  the  most 
eals  I  have  ever  heard, 
[ig  whom  was  my  host, 
ork  with  an  ardor  and 
Bless  the  Lord,  0  my 
lim,  that  he  has  per- 
ice  with  so  many  de 

The  presence  of  the 
from  a  weight  of  re- 
snce  in  their  judgment 
[][uarter.  The  help  also 
rendered  unnecessary 
nitents  after  preaching 
iown  in  other  revivals, 
lio  ofSciated  at  George 
srsons  who  had  relapsed 
during  a  revival,)  and 
}.rdoning  love  of  God, 
mes  recorded  a  second 


aiiOBIOXIS  WOEK  OF  GOD  1^  HULL. 


889 


^■i.'rta-.i  tpni. 


time ;  which  should  always  bo  avoided,  if  possible,  aa  it  only 
swells  the  number  to  an  unreal  amount. 

Having  received  an  invitation  to  the  HuU  West  Circuit, 
from  the  superintendent,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Martin,  I  preached 
in  Waltham  Street  chapel,  last  Sabbath  morning;  but  in 
such  a  "rough  and  unpalatable  manner,"  that  many  were 
offended.  At  night,  I  came  forward  with  a  text  which  had 
for  soi^c  time  rested  upon  my  mind,  with  solemn  weight : 
"  This  year  thou  shalt  die."  The  warning  was  attended 
with  an  unusual  influence  from  God,  and  about  forty  sinners 
were  converted.  This  display  of  the  power  of  truth,  togeth- 
er with  the  solemn  and  impressive  services  of  "the  watch- 
night,"  have  given  an  impulse  to  the  revival,  which  I  trust 
it   will  retain  during  the  entire   special   services   on  this 

circuit.  . 

I  am  at  present  bus'Jy  engaged  in  preparmg  a  volume  of 
my  Letters  for  the  press,  and  under  various  apprehensions 
as  to  how  they  may  be  received  by  the  pubUc  ;  but  this  I 
must  leave  with  the  Lord.    The  principle  upon  which  I  pro- 
ceed  is  tins :  If  the  work  of  God  be  neglected,  in  bringing  out 
this  volume,  the  Lord  may  frown  upon  it,  and  it  wiU  not 
succeed,  but  become  a  total  loss  to  me.    But  if  I  continue  to 
give  my  energies  fully  to  the  revival,  leaving  nothing  undone 
Ukelyto  promote  its  interests,  and  then  do  what  else  I  can 
in  relation   ->  ihe  book,  the  Lord  may  smile  upon  the  produc- 
tion, give  it  a  circulation,  and  make  it  a  blessing.    The  pre- 
paring of  tins  volume  is  a  secondary  thing;  and  this  is  as  it 
Sould  be.    The  fruit  of  my  preaching,  I  thank  God,  is  not 
BO  problematical  as  that  of  my  pen.     My  mind  is  qmte  free 
from  J.«W«^/«»»  "e^  reasomngs,"  when  preaching  to  a 
chapel  fuU  of  sinners,  repentance  toward  God  and  faith  m 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.    "Here  is  solid  footing!"    There- 
irults  are  sure,  so  long,  at  least,  as  I  live  entirely  to  God, 


iWwi  !>*>■ 


840 


QLORIOUS  WORE  OF  OOD  IN  ^Vhti. 


and  while  my  Lord  graciously  permits  me  to  retun  tiie  eomr 
tTiis^on  he  vouchsafed  to  me  in  America. 

In  a  letter  bearing  date  of  Feb.  28,  (1844,)  Mr.  Caughey 
resumes  his  notices  of  the  Hull  revival  as  follows : 

You  will  be  rejoiced  to  hear  that  the  re  rival  is  advancing 
with  rapidity  and  power.  The  great  end  ^;yhioh  everj  con- 
scientious preacher  of  the  gospel  should  h'ive  in  view,  is  being 
accomplished  daily  in  this  town— the  conversion  of  sinners 
to  God.  The  effects  of  truth  upon  scores  and  hundreds  of 
the  sons  and  daughters  of  wickedness,  are  distinct  and 
undeniable. 

Smce  the  last  day  of  the  last  year,  my  labors  have  been 
confined  to  the  Hull  West  Circuit.  We  continued  the  ser- 
vices in  Waltham  Street  chapel,  from  the  31st  of  December 
till  the  17th  instant. 

During  that  time,  the  congregations  were  large,  beyond 
any  thing  I  had  yet  seen  in  a  revival.  The  chapel,  on  the 
week  nights,  W8B  often  "filled  to  overflowing,"  long  before 
the  hour  had  arrived  for  preaching.  Every  service,  during 
the  above  period,  was  marked  by  a  gracious  and  constraining 
influence  from  above.  There  were  seasons,  too,  when  the 
power  of  God  was  revealed  in  a  maimer  most  astoni^ng. 
An  extraordinary  manifestation  of  this  Mnd  occurred  in  the 
above  chapel,  on  Friday  night,  2d  instant,  which  I  shall 
never  forget,  nor  will  the  multitudes  who  were  present. 
During  the  first  forty  minutes  of  the  sermon,  there  was  an 
awful  solemnity,  "  a  general  cahoa ; "  not  unlike  a  prelude  to 
one  of  your  American  storms  of  thunder  and  lightning  and 
nun — "  a  silent  awe,  that  dares  not  move,"  pervaded  the  vast 
assembly.  So  profound  was  the  silence,  that  one  would  have 
supposed  the  falling  of  a  pin  could  have  been  heard  in  any 
part  of  the  chapel.     From,  say,  the  fortieth  to  the  fortj 


imm 


[N  KULt. 


me  to  retain  I3ie  com* 


1844,)  Mr.  Caughey 
as  follows : 

9  remal  is  advancing 
nd  whioh  ever^  oon- 
h'ive  in  view,  is  being 
convennon  of  sinners 
)res  and  hundreds  of 
ss,  are   distinct  and 

my  labors  have  been 
fe  continued  the  ser- 
le  31st  of  December 

B  were  large,  beyond 
The  chapel,  on  the 
'flowing,"  long  before 
Every  service,  during 
;ious  and  constnumng 
leasons,  too,  when  the 
ler  most  astoni^ng. 
Mnd  occurred  in  the 
istant,  which  I  shall 
s  who  were  present, 
sermon,  there  was  an 
ot  unlike  a  prelude  to 
er  and  lightning  and 
'e,"  pervaded  the  vast 
,  that  one  would  have 
e  been  heard  in  any 
fortieth  to  the  forty 


I 


''■•*''%llmi 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HCLL. 


841 


eighth  nunute  of  the  discourse,  there  were  occasional  flashes 
of  divine  power,  succeeded  by  suppressed  sounds  from  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  congregation,  indicating  emotions  of  nn 
ordinary  character.  The  preaching  was  very  far  from  being 
of  a  boisterous  kind ;  but  when  the  preacher  arrived  at  that 
point  where  it  was  strongly,  but  not  with  violence,  urged 
that  full  salvation  should  be  expected  every  moment,  by  faith, 
there  was  a  divine  feeUng.  « If  we  are  sanctified  by  faith," 
said  the  preacher,  "  why  not  now?  this  very  moment,  this 
instant,  now  ? "  my  brother.    If 

"  Your  »onl  break*  out  In  strong  dMir«, 
Thii  perfect  bliw  to  prove ; 
Your  longing  heart  is  all  on  fire, 
To  be  dissolved  in  love." 

More  rapid  than  thought  shall  be  your  transition  into  a 
state  of  perfect  purity  and  perfect  love.  If  you  dare  to  be- 
lieve, he  cleanses  now ;  in  answer  to  your  powerful  prayer  it 
shaU  be  done.  BeUeve  that  he  does  save  you  from  sm  now, 
and  just  now,  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  his  Son  does  cleanse 
you  from  all  sin,  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  you 
shall  be  able  to  testify,  "  Let  men  exclaim,  and  fiends  re- 
pine,"— 

"  'T  is  done,  thou  dost  this  moment  save, 
With  full  salvation  bless ; 
Redemption  through  thy  blood  I  have, 
And  spotless  love  and  peace  1 " 

At  this  moment,  an  influence,  evidently  from  Heaven, 
came  upon  the  people  suddenly,"  it  seemed  like  some 
mighty  rushing— like  tiie  bursting  of  a  storm  of  wmd  upon 
some  extensive  forest.  The  entire  congregation  was  in  mo- 
tion ;  some  preparing  to  fly  from  the  phice,  and  others  m  the 
act  of  prostrating  themselvei  before  tiie  Lord  God  of  hosts. 
Cries  for  mercy,  and  piercing  suppUcations  for  purity  ot 


29* 


•  Acta  U.  3. 


._^ 


842 


OLORIOUB  WORK  OF  OOD  IN  HULL. 


heart,  were  heard  from  all  parUi  of  the  a^tated  mass  —on 
the  galleries,  as  well  as  throughout  the  body  of  the  chapel ; 
while  purified  souls  were  exulting  in  the  loftiest  strains  of 
adoration. 

The  scene  was,  beyond  description,  grand  and  sublimely 
awfiil.  It  was  "  God's  own  house,  and  heaven's  gate."  Poor 
unners  were  amazed,  and  fled ;  but  some  of  them  fell  down, 
some  distance  from  the  chapel,  in  terror  and  agony.  Many, 
however,  remained,  venturing  the  publican's  plea,  "  God  be 
merciful  to  me  a  sinner ! "  My  soul,  full  of  holy  awe, 
trembled  before  the  majesty  of  God.  Like  Elijah,  who  cov- 
ered his  face  in  his  mantle  when  the  Lord  passed  by,  I 
was  glad  of  a  place  of  conceahnent  in  the  bottom  of 
the  pulpit.  The  superintendent  mimster,  the  Bev.  Thomas 
Martin,  who  was  with  me  in  the  pulpit  at  the  time,  was  so 
overpowered,  that  he  could  do  nothing  but  weep  and  adore. 
Thus  it  continued  for  about  twenty-five  nmmtes,  when  the 
Lord  stayed  his  hand,  and  there  was  a  sadden  and  heavenly 
calm,  fuU  of  sunshine  and  gloiy.  The  number  converted 
and  sanctified  on  that  night  was  great.  It  appears  the  in- 
fluence was  almost  as  powerful  outside  the  chapel  as  witUn. 
An  unconverted  man,  who  was  standing  without  at  the  time, 
waiting  to  accompany  his  wife  home,  said,  when  she  came 
out,  "  I  don't  know  what  has  been  g(nng  on  in  the  chapel,  or 
how  yon  have  felt,  but  there  was  a  very  strange  ^.^eling  came 
over  me  while  I  was  standing  at  the  door." 

A  few  such  shocks  of  ahmghty  power  would  turn  the 
kingdom  of  the  devil  in  any  place  or  <nty  uptdde  down,  and 
go  fi&r  to  convert  the  entire  population. 

I  have  seen  but  few  saoh  manifestations  of  divine  power 
during  the  course  of  my  ministry ;  that  which  occurred  at 
t^e  Fort  Jackson  camjHneeting,  on  the  western  banks  cf  Lake 
Champlain,  very  much  resembled  it. 


''^mmi 


— I 


nr  HuUto 

le  agitated  mass  —  ob 
9  body  of  the  chapel ; 
the  loftiest  strains  of 

,  grand  and  sublimely 
heaven's  gate."  Poor 
>me  of  them  fell  down, 
or  and  agony.  Many, 
lican's  plea,  "  God  be 
loul,  fuU  of  holy  awe, 
Like  Elijah,  who  cov- 
ihe  Lord  passed  by,  I 
)nt  in  the  bottom  of 
ster,  the  Ber.  Thomas 
it  at  the  time,  was  so 
5  but  weep  and  adore, 
ive  minutes,  when  the 
a,  sudden  and  heavenly 
Ihe  number  converted 
.  It  appears  the  in- 
,e  the  chapel  as  within, 
ig  without  at  the  time, 
if  said,  when  she  came 
ing  on  in  the  chapel,  or 
ry  strange  ^.ehng  came 
loor." 

Mwer  would  turn  the 
dty  spade  down,  and 
1. 

ations  of  divine  power 

lat  which  occurred  at 

western  banks  cf  Lake 


QLORIOUS  WORK  OP  GOD  IN  HULL. 


343 


I  have  become  acquainted  with  several  remarkable  cases 
of  conversion,  in  connection  with  tiiis  revival,  some  of  which 
will  be  interesting  to  you. 

A  few  mornings  since,  a  backslider,  aged   about  fifty, 
called  to  see  me,  in  great  distress  of  mind.    He  trembled 
from  head  to  foot,  and  so  great  was  his  anguish,  he  could 
not,  for  some  time,  utter  a  word.     At  length,  he  cried, 
«  Lord,  help  me !    0,  Sir,  a  few  hours  ago,  I  had  a  dream. 
I  thought  I  was  in  a  atrange  town,  some  distance  from  Hull, 
where  tiie  devU  appeared  to  me,  and  attempted  to  carry  me 
off  to  hell,  body  and  soul.    My  soul  was  greatiy  troubled  in 
my  dream,  and  I  begged  for  a  certain  number  of  hours,  that 
I  might  return  to  Hull,  and  bid  my  wife  and  famUy  farewell. 
I  asked  for  twenty-four  hours,  in  wluch  to  go  and  come  back; 
allowing  twelve  hours  to  remain  with  my  family.    The  devil 
replied,  'Very  well,  you  shall  have  that  time  ;*  and  now," 
continued  tiie  unhappy  man,  weeping  as  if  his  heart  would 
break,  "  I  believe  I  shall  be  taken  sick  to-morrow,  at  a  cer- 
tain time,  and  die."      It  is  a  warning  from  God,  my  friend, 
I  rephed,  and  receive  it  as  such.    «  But  I  shall  die  to-morrow, 
about  tills  time."      No ;  I  believe  you  will  Hve  much  beyond 
that  period,  if  you  seek  for  mercy,  and  get  your  backslidinjp 
healed ;  you  may  be  spared  yet  a  number  of  years,  to  glori- 
fy your  pardoiung  God.    "Doyoutiunkso?"    I  certainly 
do,  but  it  will  be  at  your  peril  to  procrastinate  your  salva- 
tion.   Come  forward  to  be  prayed  for  to-night,  at  the  close 
of  the  sermon,  in  Waltham  Street  dhapel,  should  you  not 
obtwn  salvation  before.    After  prayer,  he  departed  m  great 
anguish  and  agitation  of  spirit.     That  night  he  camo  for- 
ward, among  many  otiier  penitents,  witfi  his  deeply-awakened 
wife  by  his  side  ;  nor  did  he  leave  the  place  of  prayer  till 
God  had  restored  to  his  soul  tiie  joys  of  salvation.    A  few 
days  after,  on  a  Sabbath  mormng,  at  the  Kmgston  chapel,  I 


iitfiiiiii-i.*<ftii'*  - 


if  in  iWi  Vii^ 


844 


0L0KI0U8  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HULL. 


mentioned  the  caae ;  and  he  arose  and  testified  to  a  large 
congregation  that  he  waa  the  sinner  whom  God  had  so  won- 
derfully rescued  from  hell. 

The  following  letter  from  one  of  tho  leaders  of  the  Hall 
East  Circuit  to  me,  unfolds  an  interposition  of  the  presence 
and  power  of  God,  wUch  ought  not  to  be  concealed :  — 

"  Hull,  Fbdruaby  27, 1844. 

"Dear  Sir, 

«*  Feeling  assured  that  it  will  be  mterestbg  to  you  to  re- 
ceive any  information  concerning  those  persons  who,  during 
this  great  revival,  have  been  brought  to  *  the  knowledge  of 
the  truth,*  especially,  as  so  many  infidels,  moralists,  and  caiv 
nal  professors  seem  determined  to  brand  that  work  as  the 
efiect  of  a  mere  mental,  temporary  excitement,  H  is  with 
unfeigned  pleasure  I  communicate  the  following  iucident,  as 
additional  evidence  that  the  work  in  whichjou  are  engaged, 
is  indeed  the  work  of  God. 

"You  will  remember,  dear  Sir,  during  the  services  at 
Kingston  chapel,  one  night,  at  the  close  of  your  sermon,  you 
were  involved  in  a  deep  and  intense  agony  respecting  some 
individual  in  the  congregation,  who,  as  it  appeared  to  you, 
was  violently  resisting  the  influences  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and 
upon  the  very  brink  of  destruction ;  and,  so  solemn  and  aw- 
ful was  the  impresaon,  at  that  moment,  throu^out  the  vast 
congregation,  that  many  persons  have  repeatedly  declared, 
they  never  recollected  any  thing  comparable  to  it  during  theur 
previous  lustory. 

"The  following  incident  may  serve,  perhaps,  j^  some 
measure,  to  elucidate  the  occasion  of  that  most  extraordi- 
nary and  overwhelnung  scene : — 

«J.  A.,  now  a  member  of  my  class,  and  apparently, 
%bout  forty  years  of  age,  was,  until  witlun  the  last  two  or 


i 


M  BULL. 

id  testified  to  a  large 
lom  God  had  so  won- 

leaders  of  the  Hull 
ition  of  the  presence 
be  concealed:  — 

IDEUABT  27, 1844. 

jresting  to  you  to  re- 
persons  yfho,  during 
to  'the  knowledge  of 
)ls,  moralists,  and  car- 
ind  that  work  as  the 
(xcitement,  it  is  with 
following  iucident,  as 
bich^ou  are  engaged, 

iiring  the  services  at 
Q  of  your  sermon,  you 
gony  respecting  some 
8  it  appeared  to  you, 
'  the  Holy  Spuit,  and 
ad,  so  solemn  and  aw- 
it,  throughout  the  vast 
I  repeatedly  declared, 
^le  to  it  during  their 

■ve,  perhaps,  i'^  some 
f  that  most  eztraordi- 

ilass,  and  apparently, 
within  the  last  two  or 


«LOMOUS  WORK  01  GOD  IK  HULL. 


846 


three  months,  a  bitter  enemy  of  religion,  and  a  violent  per- 
secutor of  the  people  of  God.    In  his  sentiments  he  appears 
to  have  been  an  infidel ;  for,  notwithstanding  liia  aAvful  blas- 
phemies uttered  agtunst  every  thing  sacred,  he  has   been 
frequently  heard  to  say,  that  ♦  if  there  were  a  God  and  a 
heaven,  he  had  no  doubt  of  going  there.'     I  ought  to  state 
that  his  wife  had  been  for  BMne  time  a  member  of  our  so- 
ciety, but  through  his  violent  perseoutions,  she  was  induced, 
after  considerable  endurance,  to  withdraw  herself,  and  lost 
her  religion.    No  matter  into  what  company  J.  A.  entered, 
whenever  religion  was  named,  he  never  hesitated  to  denounce 
it  as  a  system  of  *  fraud  and  deo^tion,'  and  its  ministers  as 
<  rogues,  vagabonds,  devils,'  &c.    And  he  has  often  said,  that 
*if  ever  he  entered  Kingston  chapel,  he  hoped  he  should  be 
smothered,  or  that  it  would  fall  down  upon  him  and  crush 
him.'    Soon  after  you  came  to  Hull,  he  visited  a  member  of 
my  class,  Mrs.  J.,  and  during  the  conversation  stud,  *>Vhy 
you  have  another  rascal  come  to  town.'    'Rascal,'  swd  the 
person, '  who  do  you  mean  ? ' 

" '  Why,'  said  he,  *  that  man  firwB  America.'  And  again 
he  commenced  Ms  old  course  of  blasphemous  language 
^junst  the  ministers  of  relipon,  &o.,  when  she  renund- 
ed  hun  of  the  impropriety  of  such  language  in  the  pro* 
ence  of  her  cluldren,  and  commanded  him  to  leave  tho 
house,  at  the  same  time  telling  Um,  that  she  should  call 
upon  lu8  irife  to  go  and  hear  tMs  Mr.  Causey. 

"  She  did  so.  His  wife  went  to  the  chapel,  and  throu^  the 
mercy  of  God,  was  awakened  and  converted.  She  was  solicit- 
ed to  become  a  member  of  society,  and  a  leader  wMted  upon 
her  two  or  three  times  ere  he  could  meet  with  her  at  home. 
Her  husband,  by  some  means,  received  some  intimation  of  it, 
and  became  greatly  enraged;  prolnbited  her  from  attending 
class  meetings,  &reatening  her,  if  she  did,  with  the  most 


iWttWai.iJauukJli.-'ltfWIfc'i 


1 


846 


GLOBIOUS  WORK  OF  OOD  IN  nULE. 


awful  denunciations,  and  hoping  that  *  if  ever  she  entered 
that  chapel  (Kingston)  again,  she  would  fall  down  and  hreak 
her  neck.'  But  she  was  determined,  if  possible,  to  attend ; 
and  as  the  duties  of  her  husband  required  his  attention  at 
that  period  of  the  evening,  she  thought  she  could  do  so  with 
out  his  knowledge.  That  day  came,  and  to  use  his  own  ex- 
pression, he  *  felt  like  a  devil ; '  came  to  the  dreadful  de- 
termination, as  sincerely  and  resolutely  as  he  ever  determined 
upon  any  thing  in  his  life,  as  he  hunself  has  since  declared, 
to  take  away  the  lives  of  his  wife  and  child,  in  fact  to '  cut 
then:  throats,*  and  afterwards  to  destroy  himself.  In  order 
to  effect  this  horrid  deed,  he  lured  a  man  to  occupy  his  place, 
and  proceeded  to  his  house.  His  wife,  bemg  unacquainted 
with  these  circumstances,  was,  of  course,  not  a  little  sur- 
prised to  see  him.  Very  suddenly  and  unexpectedly,  how- 
ever, he  changed  his  purpose,  and  announced  his  intention 
to  go  with  her  to  chapel.  They  went ;  but  on  their  way,  he 
reiterated  his  strange  wish  that  they  might  be  <  smothered  ;* 
and  indeed  he  was  '  smothered,'  whether  from  external  or 
internal  causes,  or  both,  but  most  probably  from  extreme 
mental  conflict ;  for  he  was  observed  to  be  in  a  state  of  deep 
a^tation  during  the  whole  service ;  huge  drops  of  perspira- 
tion, large  as  peas,  were  seen  to  drop  almost  incessantly  from 
his  brow.  Indeed,  if  ever  the  powers  of  heaven  and  the 
demons  of  hell  were  in  conflict  for  a  man's  soul,  it  seems  as 
if  thoy  were  for  his.  So  great  was  the  agony  of  his  mind 
that  he  was  quite  incapable  of  paying  attention  to  the  se^ 
mon. 

"  But  he  was  within  the  precmts  of  the  Lord's  sanctuary 
and  the  range  of  divine  influence.  As  you  were  proceedinr 
in  your  discourse,  he  made  a  move  to  leave  the  chapel,  and 
requested  his  wife  to  follow  him ;  but  she  pressed  him  to  re- 
main a  littie  longer ;  and  this  was  repeated  two  or  three  time*, 


immtm 


■■MWiMMWMMI^^ 


IN  nOLC. 

;  '  if  ever  she  entered 
lid  fall  down  and  break 
if  possible,  to  attend ; 
quired  his  attention  at 
it  she  could  do  so  with 
ind  to  use  his  own  ex- 
e  to  the  dreadful  de- 
|r  as  he  ever  dctormined 
elf  has  since  declared, 
1  child,  in  fact  to '  cut 
roy  himself.  In  order 
lan  to  occupy  his  place, 
e,  bemg  unacquainted 
turse,  not  a  little  sur- 
nd  unexpectedly,  how- 
inounced  his  intention 

but  on  their  way,  he 
night  be  '  smothered ; ' 
ether  from  external  or 
robably  from  extreme 
0  be  in  a  state  of  deep 
age  drops  of  perspira- 
ilmost  incessantly  from 
)rs  of  heaven  and  the 
oan's  soul,  it  seems  as 
he  agony  of  his  mind 

attention  to  the  ser- 

'  the  Lord's  sanctuary 
s  you  were  proceeding 
)  leave  the  chapel,  and 
ihe  pressed  him  to  re» 
>ted  two  or  three  time*, 


OliOBIOUS   WORK  OP   ODD   IN   HULL. 


847 


antil  at  laat  ho  said,  with  aa  much  vehemence  as  ho  dared, 
«  What  the  devil  in  hell  will  you  stay  hero  for  ? '  She  theft 
thought  it  necessary  to  move,  and  they  went  out.  You  will 
remember,  dear  Sir,  when  in  that  tremendous  agony,  you 
heard  some  person  moving,  as  if  to  leave  the  chapel,  and  you 
besought  them,  with  the  utmost  fervor  and  energy,  not  to 
leave  the  place  ;  as  though  you  thought  the  individual  con- 
cerning whom  you  were  so  burdened  was  then  retiring  from 
ihe  chapel.     Ho  and  his  wife  were  then  going  out. 

"  The  « hand  of  the  Lord,'  however,  was  upon  him,  and 
ae  had  not  proceeded  far,  when  his  heart  began  to  yield,  and 
bis  convictions  became  deeper  and  more  intense,  almost  at 
every  step,  until  at  last  his  alarm  and  terror  became  so  great 
that  he  could  proceed  no  further;  and  the  house  of  a  sister, 
which  he  had  long  avoided  on  account  of  her  religious  prin* 
ciples,  being  near,  he  now  entered  to  groan  out  the  agonies 
of  his  soul,  and  plead  for  salvation.     All  umted  in  fervent 
and  earnest  prayer  with  him,  but  he  did  not  obtain  the  deliv- 
erance  he  so  anxiously  sought.     He  kept  his  burden  until 
the  following  Saturday  evening,  when  he  attended  the  band- 
meeting,  but  he  was  not  relieved  even  there.    He  then  pro 
ceeded  towards  the  town,  for  the  purpose  of  purchasmg 
some  groceries ;  but  his  burden  was  so  intolerable  he  could 
not  reach  the  shop  he  generally  frequented,  and  procured 
them  at  the  nearest.     On  his  return,  ho  again  called  at  his 
sister's,  and  prayer  was  again  made  for  him,  but  apparently 
in  vain.     He  went  home,  and  after  a  tremendous  agony,  ho 
obtained,  about  one  or  two  o'clock  in  the  morning,  the  for- 
pveness  of  lus  sins.    He  could  then  say,   '  Being  justified 
by  fMth,  I  have  peace  with  God.'    He  and  his  wife  have  at- 
tended my  class  ever  since.    His  peace  and  joy,  for  several 
weeks,  weie  unutterable;  to  use  his  own  expression,  his 
*  heart  was  so  full,  he  could  not  tell  us ; '  all  ho  could  say 


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OI.0BI0U8  WORK  OF  QOD  IN  HULI. 


WM  ho  wa3  happy,  very  happy ;  and  he  contmues  to  evidence, 
to  the  present  time,  the  reality  and  genuinenesa  of  Ihe 
change  wrought  hy  the  Holy  Spirit  withm  him.  He  attributes 
his  conveiBion  to  your  prayers,  and  the  prayers  of  the  con- 
gregation, oflfercd,  as  they  seemed  to  him  to  have  bjen, 
especially  tor  himself.  e  n  a 

"  Such,  dear  Sir,  are  the  triumphs  of  the  grace  of  God ; 
and  no  doubt  there  are  many  instances  equally  remarkable, 
if  they  were  only  brought  to  light.  The  prayers  and  best 
wishes  of  hundreds,  aye,  and  thousands,  are  upon  you  and 
will  follow  you  wherever  you  may  go.  May  the  Lord  blera 
and  prosper  you  more  and  more!  May  your  health  and 
strength  bo  long  preserved  to  labor  in  this  great  work ;  and 
that  you  may  yet  be  permitted  to  see  many  thousands  and  tens 
of  thousands  brought  out  of  darkness  into  light,  and  from  the 
power  of  Satan  unto  God,  is  the  sincere  and  fervent  prayer 

of.  dear  Sir,  yours  most  affectionately, 

wi,  uooi  «  ,  J  ^^  Thomas  Lestbb. 

"  To  the  Eov.  Mr.  Caughey. 

"P.  S.  You  will  perhaps  remember,  whilst  pleading  in 
agony  that  evemng  you  uttered  the  words,  'Visit  not  in 
judgment,  Lord,  but  in  mercy; '  and  at  last  you  rose  cry- 
ing, '  Christ  shall  have  the  victory ! '  Mr.  J.,  the  husband 
of  Mrs.  J.,  before  mentioned,  who  also  meets  in  my  class,  and 
who  knew  J.  A.  weU,  told  me,  the  other  evening,  that  it  was 
his  decided  impression,  that  night  he  was  at  chapel,  that  un 
less  he  waa  awakened  that  very  evening,  'the  Lord  would 
visit  him  in  judgment,  and  make  an  example  of  him.^  He  also 
stated  that,  as  newly  as  he  could  calculate,  the  time  when 
you  exclaimed,  '  Christ  would  gain  the  victory  1 '  was  just  at 
the  moment  J.  A.  began  to  relent." 

Anotiier  letter  Ues  before  me,  bearing  date  tiie  4th  instant, 


fcdAirti 


(T  HULL* 

sontinues  to  evidooce, 

genuineness  of  *.he 

a  him.   He  attributes 

)  prayers  of  the  con- 

him  to  havo  bjen, 

)f  the  grace  of  God ; 
)  equally  remarkable, 
Che  prayers  and  best 
js,  are  upon  you  and 
May  the  Lord  blens 
lay  your  health  and 
this  great  work ;  and 
my  thousands  and  tens 
ito  light,  and  from  the 
:e  and  fervent  prayer 

''Thouas  Lbsibb. 

ler,  whilst  pleadbg  m 
words,  'Visit not  in 
at  last  you  rose  cry- 
Mr.  J.,  the  husband 
meets  in  my  class,  and 
it  evening,  that  it  was 
ras  at  chapel,  that  un 
cung,  *  the  Lord  would 
impleofhim.'   He  also 
culate,  the  time  when 
8  victory  I '  was  just  at 


ng  date  the  4th  instant, 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  ODD  IN  HULL. 


849 


in  which  there  is  a  aceply  affecting  accucnt  of  the  death  of 
a  voung  man,  of  wli.ch  tho  following  is  fcLn  substance :  — 

He  was  prosent,  it  seems,  at  tho  wat.iwnight  service,  at 
Waltham  Street  chapel,  when  I  prt/.thf  J  from  that  text, 
"  This  year  thou  shalt  die ; "  but  he  rcsiated  the  influence 
hUoY  t,*«indoi  that  sermon,  and  tiuTied  way  his  ear  from 
the  call.  When  the  letter  ma  wr'.tttr.,  th^y  had  laid  lum 
in  his  cottin,  ready  for  interment  the  nex"-  di<y. 

It  aypoar?,  t^at  about  twtnty-se'^eu  days  after  he  hevd 
ihe  warning,  he  raa  taken  with  &  bad  headache  m  tho  night. 
Next  day  he  lo'.i  the  use  of  brth  legs;  the  work  of  death 
proceeded  most  rapidly.  He  endured  Ricat  p»un,  and  was 
in  extreme  anguish.  5  his  continued  five  days.  During  his 
»^5lictio.-.,  he  would  answer  no  questior.  about  his  eternal 
fixate,  until  he  was  very  much  pressed  t^  it ;  am^.  then  the 
.-eply  was,  he  hopf  d  to  get  >»etter,  and  that  if  G^kI  would 
spare  hun  he  would  lead  a  new  lil'e.  Toward  the  closing 
scene,  he  desired  prayer  U^  bo  offerel  for  liim,  and  died. 

"Ho  was  a  child  of  p:T*yv\?;  pavents,"  says  the  letter, 
"  and  his  mother  is  now  in  gbrj.  "'li^hen  he  heard  you,  he 
was  full  of  !ife  and  vigor,  and  a»  Ukely  to  live,  ten  days  ago, 
as  any  man  you  could  look  ur.n.  I  believe  that,  at  least, 
he  died  a  true  penitent.  These  statements  coice  from  evi- 
deiice  which  is  most  unquestionable     He  now  lies  about  two 

hundred  yards  from chapel  •  and  as  some  of  his  friends 

may  hear  you  to-mghl,  you  will  use  your  discretion  iu 
bringing  it  forward,  as  they  feel  deeply  on  the  subject. 
«  Your  humble  brother  in  Christ, 

H.  G." 

T  am  sure  you  v'U  hs  gntified  to  rjad  tho  following  letter 
from  another  slaso-leader:  — 

ao 


T 


860 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HULL. 


"  Dear  and  Rev.  Sir  : 

"  The  purport  of  this  letter  serves  to  mform  you  of  a 
circumstance  which  must  be  both  pleasing  and  profitable  to 
you.  Yesterday  I  was  waited  upon  by  the  bearer,  and 
requested  to  attend  the  'dying  bed'  of  a  young  woman, 
Hannah  Jackson,  aged  eighteen,  for  the  purpose  of  writing 
a  few  words  from  her  lips  to  you;  which  I  did,  and  found 
her  perfectly  happy  in  the  love  of  God,  and  triumphant  in 
her  last  conflict. 

«« She  desired  me  to  tell  you  how  happy  she  was ;— that 
on  the  14th  of  last  January  she  was  awakened  under  one 
of  your  sermons,  to  a  sense  of  her  lost  condition ;  and  that, 
after  enduring  much  misery  on  account  of  her  sins,  she 
found  peace  with  God,  through  faith  in  the  blood  of  the 
Lamb,  on  the  20th  of  the  same  month ;  that  shortly  after,  it 
pleased  the  Lord  to  afflict  her  imto  death,  but  having  obtained 
mercy,  she  could  now,  on  the  verge  of  the  eternal  world,  read 
her  title  clear  to  a  heavenly  mansion.  I  then  promised  her 
that  you  should  have  this  communication ;  and  in  about  an 
hour  she  died,  triumphmg  in  her  Redeemer's  love. 

•  0,  may  we  triumph  so, 
When  aU  onr  conflict 's  past  I ' 

"And  now,  my  dear  Sir,  havmg  given  you  a  brief  account 
of  the  above,  and  thus  fulfiUed  my  promibe.  I  wiU  not  occupy 
more  of  your  precious  time,  but  conclude  by  wishing  you 
may  be  made  the  happy  instrument,  in  God's  hands,  of 
plucking  many  more  brands  from  the  burning,  and  that  they 
may  be  as  stars  u  the  crown  of  your  rejoicmg. 

"I  remain,  in  great  haste,  your  sincere  friend  and  brother 

"Rev.  J.  Oaughey." 


Ifiani 


^.SUJ. 


IN  HULL. 


!3  to  inform  you  of  a 
sing  and  profitable  to 
I  by  the  bearer,  and 

*  of  a  young  woman, 
;he  purpose  of  writing 
bich  I  did,  and  found 
od,  and  triumphant  in 

lappy  she  was ; — that 
awakened  under  one 
st  condition ;  and  that, 
ount  of  her  sins,  she 
h  in  the  blood  of  the 
I ;  that  shortly  after,  it 
th,  but  having  obtained 
the  eternal  world,  read 
I  then  prouused  her 
tion;  and  in  about  an 
eemer's  love. 

'»  past  I' 

iren  you  a  brief  account 
)mibe.  I  will  not  occupy 
aclude  by  wishing  you 
it,  in  God's  hands,  of 
burning,  and  that  they 

•  rejoicing. 

icere  friend  and  brother 

HBimT  Cox." 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HULL. 


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^g 


On  Thursday  night,  the  17th  instant,  we  held  a  m.etmg 
for  the  benefit  of  the  new  converts,  m  Waltham  Street 
chapel.     In  consequence  of  many  being  in  the  employment 
of  others,  some  also  unavoidably  detained  by  their  own 
business,  and  several  belonging  to  country  circmts,  who 
could  not  attend,  there  were  not  so  many  present  ^  some 
expected.    Three  hundred  and  fifty  persons  came  forward 
to  the  alter,  and  in  the  clearest  mamier  declared  they  had 
obtained  a  conscious  knowledge  of  the  forgiveness  of  sms, 
through  the  precious  blood  of  Christ,  during  the  progress 
of  the  revival  in  Waltham  Street  chapeL   The  Rev.  Thomas 
Martin,  and  one  of  his  coUeagues,  the  Rev.  William  Hurt, 
spoke  i  each  person  separately,  and  expre^ed  themselv^ 
fdly  satisfied  with  their  experience,  and  ef«^*«d  *J^7  ^^ 
the  most  effectual  and  pathetic  mamier,  to  hold  fast  the 
berimiing  of  their  confidence  steadfast  unto  the  end.    It 
wl  indeed,  a  gracious  season.     Such  weeping,  pra^ng, 
Lrejoicmg,  I  have  seldom  seen.    More  than  two  hundx^ 
persons  came  forward  to  be  prayed  for,  after  the  new  converto 

had  retired  to  their  seats.  <•  „  v«» 

The  following  night,  I  preached  on  the  influence  of  a  .ong 
enjoyment  of  holiness  in  this  life  upon  our  heaveiJy  stete. 
A  large  mimber  obtained  an  inheritance  among  those  that 
are  sanctified  by  faith.    Acts  xxvi.  18. 

Numerous  cases  of  restitution  have  lately  occurred,  from 
the  small  sum  of  a  few  shillings,  ranging  upwards  to  fifty 
pounds  sterling;  but  I  fear  a  relation  of  the  circumstances 
Lnected  with  ea.h  case  would  be  tedious  and  nmnteres^ 
ing  I  am  sure,  however,  you  will  rejoice  with  me,  and 
these  precious  English  Christians,  who  take  a  hearty  inteittb 
in  this  wonderful  revival,  as  well  as  with  tiie  angehc  host,  m 
« the  growing  empire  of  our  King."  My  ^o'^/^^'^.^^y 
in  God^    A  revival  is  the  element  in  which  I  deh^t  to 


r"' 


n 


852 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HULL. 


breathe ;  but  all  hell,  as  a  matter  of  course,  is  set  in  arms 
against  my  innovations.  The  devil  is  performing,  in  these 
days,  several  extraordinary  evolutions  to  counteract  aggres- 
sive movements.  The  design  seems  to  be,  a  vigorous  effort 
to  hedge  up  my  way  by  prejudicing  the  minds  of  some  good 
men.  Many  reports  are  afloat  that  I  have  effected  a  sepa- 
ration between  the  American  church  and  myself.  Letters 
reach  me  from  various  quarters,  that  some  intend  to  make 
my  way  rough  in  England.*  My  answer  to  those  who 
trouble  me  is,  they  cannot  doit  and  prosper,  unless  God 
permit ;  and  even  tiien  their  eye  must  be  single. 

My  soul  is  sweetly  assured,  that  no  weapon  that  is  formed 
against  me  shall  prosper;  but,  if  wielded  through  envy,  or 
jealousy,  or  any  unreasonable  dislike,  and  contrary  to  the 
single  eye^  which  regards  the  glory  of  God  only,  the  Lord 
will  bring  it,  and  the  hand  that  ^elds  it,  into  confusion. 

*  As  if  God  designed  it  for  a  proTidential  defence  of  Mr.  Caughey  against 
these  maleTolent  opposere  of  revivals,  tlie  following  letter  from  the  venerable 
Bishop  Hoddlng,  reached  him  a  few  months  after,  and  greatly  etrengthened 
him  against  his  foes.  ~  Ed. 

»  Tbxmtok,  New  Jkm»t,  U.  S.,  April  28, 1844. 
"  Rev.  Jamu  Cauohet  : 

"My  dear  Brother,  —  Tour  letter  to  the  Rev.  E.  Chichester  now  lies 
before  me.  I  am  thankful  for  the  great  work  God  hn»  wrought  through  yonr 
labors  in  Ireland  and  Edgland. 

"  You  were  regularly  located,  at  yonr  own  request,  as  a  minister  in  good 
standing  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  by  act  of  the  Troy  Annual  Con- 
ference, of  which  you  were  a  member.  And  if  yon  return  to  this  country, 
with  proper  testimonials  of  your  good  conduct,  you  would  be  joyfully  received 
as  a  member  of  the  Conference  and  a  regular  travelling  preacher,  as  such 
location  and  return  to  the  travelling  connection  is  perfectly  consistent  with 
our  rules  and  usages. 

"  Thousands  would  rejoice  to  see  you  return,  and  unite  with  us  again  in  the 
work  of  God  in  this  country. 

"  The  work  of  God  prospers  in  this  land.  May  God  bless  and  prosper  you 
wherever  you  labor ! 

"  Your  affectionate  brother  in  Christ, 

"EUJAH  Hedoiko." 


L/iAwinwi 


IN  HULL. 

course,  is  set  in  anns 

is  performing,  in  these 

1  to  counteract  aggres- 

to  be,  a  vigorous  effort 

ihe  minds  of  some  good 

[  have  eflfected  a  sepa- 

and  myself.    Letters 

some  intend  to  make 

answer  to  those  who 

d  prosper,  unless  God 

t  be  single. 

» weapon  that  is  formed 
elded  through  envy,  or 
5,  and  contrary  to  the 
of  God  only,  the  Lord 
elds  it,  into  confusion. 

ifence  of  Mr.  Canghey  against 
ving  letter  ftwn  the  venerable 
fter,  and  greatly  strengthened 

iBSiT,  U.  S.,  April  28, 1844. 

Bey.  E.  Chichester  now  lies 
lod  ha»  wrought  throngb  yoor 

request,  as  a  minister  in  good 
r  act  of  the  Troy  Annnal  Con- 
if  yott  return  to  this  country, 
^on  would  be  joyfully  received 
r  travelling  preacher,  as  such 
on  it  perfeoUy  consistent  with 

and  unite  with  us  again  in  the 

[ay  God  bless  and  prosper  you 

lirist, 

"EUJAR  HEDDlltO." 


GLORIOUS  WORK  OF   GOD  IN  HULL. 


358 


This  is  my  heritage  of  the  Lord.    This  he  has  promised  me, 
and  in  him  I  trust.    The  cause  is  his,  and  I  shall  keep  to 
the  one  thing  for  which  he  sent  me  out— the  converaon  of 
sinners  to  himself;  and  shall  leave  the  weight  of  such  mat- 
ters to  him.    I  am  ready>  leave  England,  and  to  return 
to  America,  upon  the  least  clear  intimation  from  Heaven. 
Here  I  rest  my  cause.    It  has  been  suggested  to  my  mind, 
perhaps  the  Lord  is  now  about  to  thrust  me  back  from 
whence  I  came,  seeing  that  the  work  is  accomplished  he  hath 
sent  mo  over  to  perform.    Let  my  gracious  Lord  determme, 
and  I  stand  ready  gladly  to  obey.    Cheerfully  would  I  haste 
away  across  the  mighty  deep,  could  I  but  clearly  see  the 
viU  of  my  divine  Master;  but  my  conscience  stands  m 
dread  of  the  consequences  t "  retreating  from  these  kingdoms 
before  the  Lord  has  signed  and  sealed  my  passport. 

We  commenced  a  series  of  services  in  another  chapel  on 
the  Hull  West  Circuit,  —  Great  Thornton  Street  chaper- 
on Sabbath,  18th  instant;  and  since  then,  about  one  him- 
dred  sinners  have  been  converted  to  God,  and  about  fifty 
sanctified  throughout— soul,  body,  and  spirit. 

On  Monday,  the  25th  instant,  an  old  man,  nearly  seventy 

years  of  age,  called  upon  me  for  advice.    He  stated  that, 

during  several  months  past,  he  had  been  tempted,  m  the 

most  uncontrollable  manner,  to  commit  murder,  by  way 

of  vengeance.    An  individual,  it  seems,  in  this  town,  had 

wronged  him  in  some  lawsuit,  by  which  he  lost  his  character, 

and  it  had  driven  him  to  desi^eration.    «  When  I  pass  him 

upon  the  street,"  said  the  old  man,  « I  turn  round,  and  pray 

that  aU  the  curses  contamed  in  the  one  himdred  and  nmth 

Psalm  may  faU  upon  him  and  his  family.    A  few  days  ago," 

he  added,  ''when  walking  on  the  Pier  Head,  I  pr^P^ 

myself  to  attempt  his  and  my  own  destruction ;  and  had  he 

nox  at  the  moment  linked  arms  with  another  gentleman,  I 

80* 


854 


GLORIOUS   WORE  3F  30D  IN  HULL. 


sHould  have  clasped  him  in  my  arms,  aad  leaped  mHi  lum 
into  the  Homber.  A  short  time  since,  I  loaded  a  pistol, 
and  waylaid  him,  and  would  have  blown  his  brains  out,  had 
he  not  escarped  me  by  taking  another  way." 

Poor  man !  I  endeavored  to  draw  aside  the  veil ;  and 
U  God  enabled  me  to  show  his  amazed  conscience  how  a 

malignant  devil  had  been  operating  in  the  dark,  and  with  a 
settled  and  infernal  purpose  of  brin^g  him  to  an  ignomini- 
ous end,  and  his  soul  into  a  terrible  hell.  "My  aged 
man !  you  are  a  sinner,  and  you  know  it.  Your  own  ires- 
passes  against  God  have  been  great  and  many ;  and,  be 
assured,  if  you  cannot  for^ve  a  fellow  creature  his  offences 
against  you,  neither  will  God  for^ve  yours  against  him. 
With  the  Lord's  Prayer,  I  presume,  you  are  familiar ;  — 
forget  not  that  part  of  it,  '  Forgive  us  our  trespasses,  as  we 
for^ve  them  that  trespass  against  us.'  Remember,  also,  my 
dear  Sir,  that  this  is  the  only  passage  in  that  beautiful 
prayer  upon  '^hich  our  Saviour  thought  proper  to  make  any 
comment ;  and  what  he  says  is  most  emphatic :  '  for,  if  ye 
forgive  not  men  their  trespasses,  neither  will  your  Father 
for^ve  your  trespasses.*  Leave  the  matter  with  God.  Pray 
for  your  enemy,  but  avenge  not  yourself,  or  you  will  bring 
your  gray  hairs  with  sorrow  and  dishonor  to  the  gi^ve ; 
neither  give  place  unto  wrath ;  because  it  is  written,  *  Ven- 
geance belongeth  unto  me,  and  I  will  recompense,  saith  the 
Lord.'    *  Resist  the  devil,  and  he  will  flee  from  you.' " 

After  prayer,  he  departed,  sol^nnly  alfected,  and  I  trust, 
either  delivered  from  his  purpose,  or  at  least  firmly  resolved 
to  struggle  against  the  horrible  impulse.  Who  can  tell  but 
this  cor"cn!ation  may  save  two  souls  from  perdition?  —  and 
this  U  ^vortii  'Oj  visit  to  Hull. 

Tou  Tvili  be  gratified  to  learn,  that  the  Lord  continues  his 
great  goodness  to  me,  with  regard  to  providing  me  ooipfort- 


IN  HULL. 

Euxd  leaped  with  him 
;e,  I  loaded  a  pistol, 
n  his  brains  out,  had 
ray." 

r  aside  the  veil ;  and 
id  conscience  how  a 
the  dark,  and  with  a 
y  him  to  an  iguomini- 
le  hell.  "My  aged 
Y  it.  Your  own  ires- 
and  many ;  and,  be 
creature  his  offences 
9  yours  against  him. 
you  are  familiar;  — 
our  trespasses,  as  we 
Bemember,  also,  my 
trge  in  that  beautiful 
t  proper  to  make  any 
emphatic :  '  for,  if  ye 
ler  will  your  Father 
atter  with  God.  Pray 
elf,  or  you  will  bring 
ihonor  to  the  gAve; 
>  it  is  written,  *  Ven- 
recompense,  saith  the 
dee  from  you.' " 
a&cted,  and  I  trust, 
b  least  firmly  resolved 
5.  Who  can  tell  but 
pom  perdition  ?  —  and 

he  Lord  continues  hia 
troviding  me  ooipfort- 


<mm  m 


GLOBIOUS  WORK  OP  GOD  IN  HULL. 


355 


able  homes  in  a  strange  land.  At  the  house  of  Mr.  William. 
Field,  Market  Place,  Mr.  West,  Holdemess  Road,  Mr. 
James  Crow,  Beverly  Road,  and  at  the  mansion  of  Mr. 
Thomas  Hohnes,  where  I  am  at  present,  I  have  been  enter- 
tained in  a  most  hospitable  manner.  In  the  lovely  famiUes 
of  these  kind  and  generous  friends,  I  have  enjoyed  every  , 
comfort  I  could  desire.  May  the  God  of  grace  and  provi-  ' 
dence  reward  them  for  their  great  kindness  to  me,  his 
unworthy  servant ! 

I  have,  also,  since  the  beginnmg  of  the  year,  spent  a  few 
weeks  in  the  house  of  the  Rev.  William  Blingworth,  one 
of  the  nrinisters  on  the  East  Circuit.  With  him  and  his 
devoted  wife  I  enjoyed  much  of  the  presence  of  God, 
« the  commumon  of  sainta,  the  fellowship  of  kindred  minds," 
m  a  very  Ugh  degree. 

"  0,  to  grace  how  great  a  debtor, 
Daily  I'm  coiutndned  to  bo  I  '* 

I  caimot  expreaa  my  circumstances  and  state  of  mnd  better, 
than  in  the  words  of  Bishop  Hall:  "There  is  a  holy 
carelessness,  free  from  idleness,  free  from  distrust." 

You  have  heard  of  the  peculiar  beauty  of  tho  English 
hoarfrost.  A  few  mormngs  ance,  when  enjoying  a  walk 
into  the  country,  I  was  favored  with  a  rare  opportunity  of 
obsei-ving  this  transitory,  yet  wonderful  production  of  nature, 
"  frost-work  fair,  where  transient  hues,  and  fancied  figures 
rise."  Every  branch,  and  slender  twig  of  tree,  thorn,  and 
shrub;  each  herb,  leaf,  and  blade  of  grass,  was  adorned 
with  those  light  and  feathery,  all-pervading,  "myriads  of 
Uttlo  salts,  or  hooked,  or  shaped,  tho  various  labors  of  the 
silent  night;"  as  if  in  imitation  of  all  that  «  /emal  sun 
awaiies  on  «  forest  bough  or  Waded  field,"  when  moist  with 
the  "Ughirfooted  dewa  '  of  summer's  eariiest  mom.    Th« 


.^■1 


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GLORIOUS  WORK  OF  GOD  IN  HULL. 


atmosphere  was  still  and  pure,  and  the  soft  and  filmy  veU 
which  obscured  the  sky,  protected  the  fairy  scene  from 
being  dissipated  or  destroyed  too  soon  by  the  rays  of  the 
ascending  sun. 

My  soul  was  very  happy  in  beholding  this  lovely  scene. 
Every  object  contributed  to  fill  my  soul  with  gratitude  and 
joy ;  and  God  had  all  my  heart.  Sometimes  my  joy  m  God 
was  ecstatic ;  but  it  waa  not  that  kind  of  joy  which,  as  a 
fine  writer  says,  "  Often  usurps  the  name  of  joy ;  a  trivial, 
vanishing,  superficial  thing,  that  only  gilds  the  apprehension, 
and  plays  upon  the  surface  of  the  soul ;  not  the  mere  crack- 
ling of  thorns  under  a  pot,  a  sudden  blaze  of  the  spirits,  the 
exultation  of  a  tickled  fancy  or  a  pleased  appetite;"  it 
penetrated  my  nature,  and  diflFused  itself  throughout  my 
soul.  Apart  from  the  splendor  of  nature  around  me,  "  it 
was  the  result  of  a  real  good  suitably  applied ;  it  was  a  joy 
thst  feasted  upon  the  solidities  of  truth,  and  the  substance 
of  fruition;  it  filled  the  soul  as  God  does  the  universe  ;"  I 
cannot  say  "silently  and  without  noise,*'  for  there  was  a 
shout  now  and  again,  "refreshing  and  composing  as  the 
mirth  of  a  festival  with  tiie  silence  of  con^^rplation." 

We  shall  resume  the  subject  of  the  Hull  revival  in  the 
next  chapter. 


i 


MMfea 


D  IN  HULL. 

the  Bofb  and  filmy  veil 
I  the  fairy  scene  from 
soon  by  the  rays  of  the 

)lduig  this  lovely  scene. 
'  soul  with  gratitude  and 
ometimes  my  joy  in  God 
kind  of  joy  which,  as  a 

name  of  joy ;  a  trivial, 
iT  gilds  the  apprehension, 
)ul ;  not  the  mere  crack- 
i  blaze  of  the  spirits,  the 

pleased  appetite;"  it 
d  itself  throughout  my 
nature  around  me,  "it 
ly  applied ;  it  was  a  joy 
ruth,  and  the  substance 

does  the  universe  ; "  I 
noise,**  for  there  was  a 
;  and  composing  as  the 
>f  con**ir'.plation." 

'  the  Hvdl  revival  in  the 


\j.'' 


CHAPTER   XXI. 

SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS   OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 

"  Before  honor  is  humility,"  saith  the  Eternal  Word. 
Mr.  Caughey's  experience  in  Hull  affords  a  fine  illustration 
of  this  truth.  His  opening  efforts  there  were  despised  and 
almost  rejected.  HLs  humbled  heart  sunk  to  its  lowliest 
attitude  ;  feeling  anew  its  long-abiding  conviction,  that  man 
alone  is  nothing  —  God  every  thmg !  His  prayers,  exhor- 
tations, and  sermons  inspired  the  praying  men  of  the  church 
with  the  same  powerful  idea.  They  called  upon  God  like 
men  who  meant  what  they  expressed,  and  who  felt  all  they 
acknowledged.  This  was  meeting  God  on  his  own  terms, 
and  never  did  Jehovah  honor  the  faith  of  the  creature  in  a 
more  marked  manner  than  he  did  in  some  of  the  wonderful 
scenes  of  the  Hull  revival.  Let  the  minister  or  layman,  who 
reads  this  chapter,  keep  these  views  before  him,  and  he  may 
learn  a  precious  lesson  which  may  yield  fruit  to  the  honor 
and  glory  of  God.  But  we  will  again  suffer  Mr.  Caughey 
to  relate  his  o  -n  story  :  — 

You  will  glorify  God  when  I  inform  you  that  the  revival 
is  still  going  on  in  Hull  with  increasing  power.  Hundreds 
of  sinners  have  been  converted  to  God  since  the  date  of  my 
last  to  you.  The  devil  has  been  showing  his  teeth,  also,  and 
roaring  ;  but  he  has  neither  liberty  to  bite  nor  devour 


'  The  withered,  dark,  defeated  mind, 
That  cnwes  Heaven  and  looms  mankind." 


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858    SCENES  AND   INCIDENTS   OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 

One  of  the  Hull  newspapers  has  lent  its  columns  to  attack 
me,  and  calls  upon  the  authorities  of  the  town  to  interfere, 
and  put  me  down.  The  gentlemen,  however,  have  better 
sense,  and  too  much  of  the  fear  of  God,  to  meddle  with  the 
work  in  which  I  am  engaged.  Some  of  the  wicked  have 
threatened  to  "  drum  me  out  of  the  town  ;"  but  their  pru- 
dence, it  would  seem,  has  questioned  the  propriety  of  obeying 
this  mandate  of  the  devil  to  the  letter ;  so  the  matter  has 
been  deferred  in  the  councils  of  the  ungodly.  Chagrined 
that  he  cannot  command  physical  force,  by  raising  a  mob,  aa 
in  former  times,  the  evil  one  vents  his  spleen  through  the 
medium  of  anonymous  letters,  most  of  which  are  impudent 
and  insulting,  beyond  any  thing  you  can  ima^e.  But  none 
of  these  things  move  me.  A  good  fire  in  the  grate  soon  re- 
duces these  harmless  missiles  to  ashes ;  and,  when  blazmg  there, 
my  prayer  ascends  to  heaven,  that  these  silly  dupes  of  the 
devil  may  never  bum  in  hell.  Now,  I  consider  this  excellent 
revenge  on  Satan ;  because  God  is  able  to  overrule  such  cow- 
ardly and  malignant  scrawls,  for  the  awakemng  and  conversion 
of  the  scribblers.  I  have  known  the  wicked  become  fright- 
ened with  the  daringness  of  their  folly,  and  return  quickly  to 
their  offended  God,  "lest  they  should  get  into  hell  before  the 

time." 

Now  and  then  there  is  a  letter  displaying  considerable 
talent,  as  if  ApoUyon  had  a  little  vanity  in  showing  that  he 
has  minds  under  his  control  far  superior  to  the  other  scur- 
rilous dogs,  whom  he  usually  employs  to  do  his  dirtiest  work. 

Some  occasionally  throw  down  the  gauntlet,  and  invite  me 
into  the  arena  of  controversy ;  but  my  reply  irritates  both 
the  sinners  and  their  masters :  "  I  am  doing  a  great  work,  so 
THAT  I  CANNOT  COME  DOWN :  why  should  the  work  cease, 
wlulst  I  leave  it,  and  come  down  to  you  ?  "     Neh.  vi.  3. 

We  may  say  of  this  revival,  aa  a  certjun  learned  judge 


IB  HULL  UEVIVAL. 

:!nt  its  columns  to  attack 
)f  the  town  to  interfere, 
n,  however,  have  better 
God,  to  meddle  with  the 
ome  of  the  wicked  have 
!  town ;"  but  their  pru- 
the  propriety  of  obeying 
tter;  so  the  matter  has 
lie  ungodly.  Chagrined 
roe,  by  raismg  a  mob,  as 
his  spleen  through  the 
of  which  are  impudent 
can  imagine.  But  none 
ire  in  the  grate  soon  rc- 
;  and,  when  blazing  there, 
1  these  silly  dupes  of  the 
I  consider  this  excellent 
ible  to  overrule  such  cow- 
iwakcning  and  conversion 
he  wicked  become  fright- 
lly,  and  return  quickly  to 
Id  get  into  hell  before  the 

(hsplaying  considerable 
anity  in  showing  that  he 
perior  to  the  other  scur- 
fs to  do  his  dirtiest  work, 
e  gauntlet,  and  invite  me 

my  reply  irritates  both 
m  doing  a  great  \7ork,  so 
■  should  the  work  cease, 
8  you?"     Neh.  vi.  3. 

a  certtun  learned  judge 


SCENES   AND  INCIDKNT3  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL.    869 

said  of  justice;  that  though  opposed,  and  in  some  measure, 
retarded  by  interested  parties,  yet  it  is  like  a  river,  which, 
though  its  surface  is  l;oken  and  ruffled  into  waves  by 
contrary  and  boisterous  winds,  yet  holds  on  its  way  with 
resisdess  force.  All  the  opposition  of  men  or  devils  seems 
incapable  of  interposing  any  efifectual  barrier  against  its 
triumphant  progress.  Hallelujah!  » I  am  not  ashamed  of 
the  gospel  of  Christ "  in  Hull,  «  for  it  is  the  power  of  God 
unto  salvation  to  every  one  that  believeth." 

The  truth  of  the  Uving  God  in  its  burning  power,  is  bemg 
thrown  among  sinners  daily.     Some  of  the  hottest  shot 
from  the  magazines  of  Immanuel  have  been  cast  mto  their 
intrenchments;   and  the  execution  has  been  tremendous. 
The  roaring  of  the  artillery  has  no  sooner  ceased,  than  the 
cries  of  the  wounded,  suppUcating  for  mercy,  are  ^^^J^'>^ 
every  dde,  untU  my  soul  has  trembled  before  the  Lord  God 
of  hosts.    Ah !  the  human  nund  is  a  fearful  thing.     And  I 
have  thought,  in  the  midst  of  the  uproar  of  terrified  sinners, 
that  if  the  living  coals  of  eternal  truth,  scattered  over  the 
naked  consciences  of  the  imgodly,  produce  such  effects, 
even  though  there  is  hope  throughout  their  agomes,  and 
their  ears  are  filled  with  the  cheering  accents  of  the  gospel, 
from  the  Ups  of  so  many  servants  of  God,  how  temble, 
then,  must  the  effect  of  hell  firo  be,  when  long  resisted 
Truth  shall  call  upon  eternity  to  vindicate  its  rights ! 

On  the  night  of  the  6th  instant,  in  Great  Thornton  Street 
chapel,  an  exhortation  was  given  before  the  text,  on  the 
absolute  necessity  of  an  increase  of  the  spirit  of  pi^yer 
among  the  people  of  God,  in  order  to  the  continuance  of  the 
revival.  My  soul  was  burdened  and  pressed  down  before 
the  Lord,  and  1  could  only  find  reUef,  by  telling  them  all 
that  was  in  my  heart— all  that  I  considered  as  standingm 
the  way  of  a  larger  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spint.    The 


860    SOBNEfl  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  TH>.  IVVu  REVIVAL. 


Lord  helped  mc  to  speak  words  of  fire,  and  that  declaration 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  was  accompanied  with  uncommon  power, 
••  for  as  soon  as  Zion  travailed,  she  brought  forth  her  child- 
ren." Isaiah  Ixvi.  8.  The  congregation  was  then  requested 
to  kneel  down,  and  spend  a  few  nunutes  in  silent  prayer. 
Nearly  all  bowed,  and  the  spirit  of  agonizing  prayer  came 
down  upon  the  people  in  a  wonderful  manner.  Ten  minutes 
had  scarcely  elapsed,  when  the  cries  of  penitent  sinners 
began  to  mingle  with  the  earnest  pleadings  of  God's  servants. 
The  hand  of  the  Lord  rested  upon  the  entire  audience. 
None  moved  from  the  place,  though  some  looked  unutterable 
thmgs.  Earnest  prayer  ascended  from  almost  every  part 
of  the  chapel,  even  from  the  galleries,  to  a  perfect  tempest 
of  human  voices.  Zion  was  now  travailing  for  the  salvation 
of  sinners,  and  we  were  afraid  to  interfere.  We  left  the 
people  safe  with  God ;  although  he  seemed  to  say,  "  Let  mo 
go,  for  the  day  breaketh."  "  They  cannot  let  thee  go,  my 
Lord !  Hear,  0  hear  their  cries,  my  gracious  Master  I  Hast 
thou  not  swd,  '  Agonize  to  enter  in  at  the  strtdt  gate :  for 
many,  I  say  unto  you,  will  seek  to  enter  in,  and  shall  not  be 
able?'  And  hast  thou  not  declared,  'The  kingdom  of 
heaven  suffereth  violence,' — that  is,  permits  it,  invites  to  it, 
*  and  the  violent  take  it  by  force  ?  *  So  far  from  spurning 
away  the  eager  multitude,  or  resisting  their  vehemence  as 
irreverent,  and  derogatory  to  the  glory  of  thy  divine  Majes- 
ty, thou  must,  thou  wilt  let  them  '  take  the  blessmg  from 
liove,'  that  they  may  *  wonder  at  thy  bouri^'ess  love,'  — 
that  they  may  adore  thy  matchless  benevolence  and  love,  in 
Jesus  Christ  our  Lsrd. 

•  Their  powerful  groans  thou  canst  not  bear, 
Nor  stand  the  violence  of  their  prayer,— 
Their  prayer  omnipotent.' " 

The  visitation  lasted  about  three  quarters  of  an  hour.    I 


»i„,   I.    lilin'"''» 


\  1  ULl.  REVIVAL. 

rc,  and  that  declaration 
with  uncommon  j)Ower, 
brought  forth  her  child- 
btion  was  then  requested 
inutes  in  silent  prayer, 
agonizing  prayer  came 
I  manner.  Ten  minutes 
ies  of  penitent  sinners 
^gs  of  God's  servants, 
m  the  entire  audience, 
some  looked  unutterable 
from  almost  every  part 
es,  to  a  perfect  tempest 
.viuling  for  the  salvation 
interfere.  We  left  the 
leemed  to  say,  "  Let  mo 
cannot  let  thee  go,  my 
gracious  Master  1  Hast 
1  at  the  strut  gate :  for 
nter  in,  and  shall  not  be 
,red,  'The  kingdom  of 
,  penmts  it,  invites  to  it, 
So  far  from  spurning 
ing  their  vehemence  as 
lory  of  thy  divine  Majes- 
'take  the  blessing  from 
;  thy  boui'i'^'ess  love,'  — 
benevolence  and  love,  ia 

canst  not  bear, 
heir  prayer,— 

quarters  of  an  honr.    I 


8CENB3  AND  INCIDENTS  OP  THE  UVuh  REVIVAL, 


861 


watched  the  amazing  scene  with  holy  awe  and  indescribable 
emotion,  till  the  many  hundreds  of  voices  seemed  to  have 
arrived  at  that  point  pocoliar  to  prevailing  prayer  — when 
it  appeared  as  if  God  was  speaking  to  each  stormy  soul, 
« Peace,  be  stiUl-ivhat  is  thy  name?  — what  wilt  thou 
that  I  should  do  for  thee  ?  "  And  from  the  gradual  descent 
and  meUowing  tones  of  many  voices,  -  softening  down  like 
"thenoiseof  many  water8,"-there  could  be  no  doubt,  their 
subdued  answers  received  his  approbation,  and  that  he  was 
saying  to  every  wrestling  Jacob,  «  Be  it  unto  thee  even  as 
thou  wilt;  thy  name  shall  be  no  more  Jacob,  but  Israel: 
for,  as  a  prince,  hast  thou  power  with  God  and  with  men, 
and  hast  prevailed."    Gen.  xxjdi.  28. 

At  this  moment,  the  powerful  organ,  accompamed  by  the 
volxB  of  a  triumphant  multitude,  pealed  forth,— 

"  See  how  great  a  flame  a«p5rei, 
Kindled  by  a  ipark  of  grace ! 
Jesu's  love  the  nation  Area, 

SeU  the  WngdomB  in  a  blaie : 
To  bring  fire  on  earth  he  came ; 
Kindled  in  some  heart*  it  is : 
O  that  all  might  catch  the  flame, 
All  partake  the  glorious  blUfl  " 

Tho  chapel  was  fiUed  with  the  glory  of  God,  and  every 
face  wore  the  heavenly  expression,  «  Lo,  God  is  here !  But 
how  di-eadful  is  this  place !  This  is  none  other  than  the 
houcuj  of  God,  and  this  is  the  gate  of  heaven.       Gen. 

xxviii.  IT.  ,  J.  J    « A 

Souo  there  were,  it  is  true,  who  yet  groaned,     O 
wxetchod  man  that  I  am,  who  shall  deliver  me  from  tho 
body  of  tMs  death  ?    God  have  mercy  upon  me,  a  sinner ! 
But,  before  the  meeting  closed,  they  also  were  enabled  to 
rejoice  in  a  pardomng  God. 
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362    SCENES   AND  INCIDENTS   OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 


A  few  days  ago  I  received  the  following  affecting  letter 
from  an  inhabitant  of  this  town :  — 

"  IIuix,  March  11, 1844. 

'  ^?  "  Rkv.   Sib,  —  Having  received  information  that  you 

desired  to  have  some  account  of  the  death  of  our  beloved 

son,  George  Young,  we  proceed  to  give  it ;  but  first  allow  u3 

to  state  what,  I  am  sure,  will  be  deeply  interesUng  to  you. 

"  On  the  12th  December  last,  while  sitting  under  your 

sermon,  from  this  text, '  This  year  thou  shalt  die,'  it  pleased 

God  to  give  him  to  see  his  awful  condition  as  a  sinner.   From 

that  moment,  he  could  not  rest;  and,  after  the  sermon,  he 

.  went  into  the  vestry,  and,  blessed  be  God,  peace  was  spoken 

to  his  soul,  through  faith  m  the  blood  of  the  Lamb ;  and,  up 

to  hia  death,  I  believe  he  has  been  growing  in  grace  and 

m  the  knowledge  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

"  On  the  morning  of  the  day  in  which  he  lost  his  life, 
(March  9th,  1844,)  he  left  home  for  the  factory,  singing,-- 

•  This,  thin  J»  the  God  ^e  adore, 

Our  faithful,  unchangeable  Friend ; 
Whose  love  is  a»  great  as  his  power, 

AntLneither  knows  measure  nor  end. 
•Tl»  Jesus,  the  First  and  the  Last, 

Whose  Spirit  shall  guide  us  safe  home ; 
We'll  praise  him  for  all  that  is  past, 

And  trust  him  for  all  that 's  to  come.' 

He  entered  into  eternity  about  ten  minutes  past  nine  that 

same  morning.  -my. 

«  The  manner  of  his  death  was  as  follows :  We  have  been 
informed  by  the  overseer  of  the  mill,  that  there  is  a  aLaft 
which  runs  from  one  end  of  the  room  to  the  other,  about 
three  feet  from  the  ceiling,  with  a  drum  attached  to  it. 
WhUe  our  dear  son  was  in  the  act  of  putting  the  strap  upon 
this  drum,  his  hand  got  entangled  m  the  strap,  and  he  was 


HULL  REVIVAL. 

owing  affecting  letter 


,,  March  11, 1844. 

information  that  you 
death  of  our  beloved 

0  it ;  but  first  allow  ua 
ily  interesting  to  you. 
lo  sitting  under  your 

1  shalt  die,'  it  pleased 
tion  as  a  sinner.  From 
,  after  the  sermoix,  bo 
3od,  peace  was  spoken 
3f  the  Lamb ;  and,  up 
growing  in  grace  and 
Ihrist. 

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the  factory,  singing,— 


Friend ; 
power, 
B  nor  end. 

I  safe  home ; 
»  past, 
I  to  come.' 

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taken  round  the  shaft,  which  is  a  horizontal  one,  going  at 
the  rate  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-eight  revolutions  per 
minute,  as  near  as  could  be  calculated.  He  was  on  the 
shaft  about  one  minute  and  a  half,  so  that  he  could  not  have 
gone  round  less  than  two  hundred  times,  before  the  ma- 
chinery was  stopped ;  after  which,  he  was  carried  to  the 
Hull  General  Infirmary,  pouiing  out  his  soul  in  prayer  to 
God  —  not  to  be  relieved  from  his  bodily  suflFerings,  but  to 
be  taken  home  to  heaven.  Medical  aid  was  immediately 
procured,  when  it  was  found  his  shoulder  blade  was  forced 
out  of  its  place,  his  arm  broken  in  two  places,  also  his  thigh, 
foot,  and  ankle  —  all  broken,  and  his  body  most  dreadfully 
crushed,  so  that  the  surgeon  gave  up  all  hopes  of  his 
recovery. 

"We,  his  parents,  followed  him  to  the  Infirmary,  and 
when  he  saw  us,  he  cried,  'Father!  —  mother!  pray  for 
me ;'  which  we  did.  We  inquked  with  deep  anxiety,  as  to 
the  state  of  his  soul ;  he  was  happy  in  tiie  love  of  God. 
*  Are  you  afraid  to  die,  my  dear  son  ? '  He  replied,  ♦  No : 
but  I  want  to  sleep ; '  then  added, '  I  shall  sleep  in  the  arms 
of  Jesus.'  After  which,  he  prayed  repeatedly,  *  Lord,  take 
me  to  thyself! '  and,  turning  his  eyes  towards  heaven,  he 
exclaimed,  '  Glory !  Glory ! '  and  expired. 

"He  was  m  Ins  sixteenth  year,  and  was  ever  a  most 
obedient  child.  In  the  year  1842,  he  became  a  Sabbath 
school  scholar  in  the  Drypool  Wesleyan  chapel — was  much 
respected  by  the  superintendents  and  teachers,  and  received 
a  copy  of  the  New  Testament,  as  a  premium  for  memor  zing 
the  greater  part  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St.  John.  He 
used  to  repeat  between  twenty  and  thirty  verses  each  Sab- 
bath afternoon,  which  he  had  committed  to  memory  through 
the  week,  though  employed  from  six  in  the  morning  till  sevfcn 
at  nJghtr    He  accomplished  it  by  carrying  the  New  Testa 


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36  i    SCENES  AND   INCIDENTS  OP  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 

mcnt  always  in  his  pocket,  so  that  it  was  always  at  hand 
for  a  spare  moment.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Wesleyan 
r.Uurcli  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

"  We  remain,  dear  Sir,  your  obedient  servants, 

"Richard  and  Mary  Young." 

How  unsearchable  are  the  judgments  of  God,  and  hia 
ways  are  past  finding  out !  What  a  frightful  death  to  come 
upon  one  but  newly  adopted  into  his  family !  But  the  Judge 
cf  all  the  earth  has  done  right.  "  Thou^  clouds  and  dark- 
ness are  round  about  him,  justice  and  judgment  are  the 
habitation  of  his  throne." 

Last  night  I  enjoyed  a  most  powerful  time,  on  the  sub- 
ject of  entire  sanctification.  About  fifty  professed  to  obtain 
salvation. 

The  Lord  is  very  good  to  my  soul.  Although  I  have 
various  temptations  and  threatenings  from  the  great  adver- 
sary of  God  and  man,  he  enables  me  often  to  rejoice  with 
joy  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory. 

"  I  have  a  aecret  joy  that  flows 
Against  the  tide  of  common  OTerthrows ; 
I  have  a  sealed,  sacred  peace, 
Beyond  the  power  of  hell,  sin,  and  disease ! " 

I  am  glad  to  learn,  that  Mrs.  *  *  *  has  found  a  situation 
FX>  much  to  her  mind.  I  am  quite  of  the  opinion  of  that 
wise  Athenian,  who,  having  a  farm  to  sell,  directed  the  crier 
to  proclaim,  as  its  best  recommendation,  that  it  bad  a  good 
neighoorhood.  I  cannot  think  the  smallncss  of  the  house 
any  great  disadvantage,  that  is,  if  there  be  suflBcient  room 
for  herself  and  family,  and  some  to  spare  for  the  accommo- 
dation of  a  few  friends.  You  recollect  the  sentiment  of 
Socrates,  who,  when  asked  why  he  had  built  for  himself 
such  a  small  house,  replied,  "  Small  as  it  is,  I  wish  I  could 


!  HULL  REVIVAL. 

it  was  always  at  hand 
mber  of  the  Weslejan 

ibedient  servants, 
ND  Mary  Young." 

ents  of  God,  and  his 
frightful  death  to  come 
unily !  But  the  Judge 
lough  clouds  and  dark- 
uid  judgment  are  the 

crful  time,  on  the  sub- 
ifty  professed  to  obtain 

ol.  Although  I  have 
from  the  great  adver- 
<3  often  to  rejoice  with 


OTerthrows ; 
a,  and  disease !  '* 

*  has  found  a  situation 

of  the  opimon  of  that 

sell,  directed  the  crier 

on,  that  it  had  a  good 

imallncss  of  the  house 

lere  be  su£Scicnt  room 

pare  for  the  accommo- 

llect  the  sentiment  of 

had  built  for  himself 

as  it  iSj  I  wish  I  could 


.JHEwak.... 


SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OE  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 


fill  it  with  friends."     "  These,"  says  a  judicious  writer, 
"are  all  that  a  wise  man  can  desire  to  assemble;  for  a 
crowd  is  not  company,  and  faces  are  but  a  gallery  of  pic- 
tures, and  talk  but  a  tinkling  cymbal,  where  there  is  no 
love."    "  I  confess,"  says  Cowley,  "  I  love  littleness  almost 
in  all  things;  a  little  convenient  estate,  a  little  cheerful 
home,  a  little  company,  and  a  very  little  feast." 

•  •  •  •  •  • 

What  follows  is  from  a  letter  to  his  sister,  and  carries  the 
Mstory  of  his  movements  down  'towards  the  close  of  April, 
1844. 

The  date  of  my  letter  shows  my  birth  month,  (April.)  I 
Lave  just  been  thinking  of  the  sentiment  of  a  poet  in  refer- 
ence to  the  chanfi^eableness  of  April ;  and  although  it  is 
qvute  inapplicable  to  the  present  weather,  as  it  is  the  most 
delightfiil  that  ever  cheered  the  heart  of  man,  and  has  been 
since  the  month  began,  yet,  from  the  varied  feelings  of  my 
unsteady  nature,  I  have  been  sometimes  superstitious  enough 
to  think  that  it  may  have  received  a  tinge  from  my  native 
April.    This  is  only  imaginary.    But  hear  the  poet:  — 

"  Checkered  your  native  month  appears, 
With  snnny  gleams,  and  clondy  tears ; 
*Tis  thus  the  world  our  trost  begailes, 
Its  frowns  as  transient  as  its  smiles ; 
Nor  pain  nor  pleasure  long  will  stay. 
For  life  is  but  an  April  day." 

On  the  night  of  the  8th  instant,  I  held,  as  usual,  a  private 
•♦watch-night"  in  my  room.  I  anticipated  much  good  to 
my  soul  from  a  retrospect  of  the  past,  and  renewing  my 
resolutions  to  be  more  faithful  during  the  coming  year.  My 
mind,  however,  became  greatiy  oppressed,  and  I  had  very 
little  of  the  spirit  of  prayer.  The  cause  of  this  I  could  not 
tell,  unless  it  arose  from  the  exhaustion  of  the  premus 
81" 


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866    SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 

Sabbath;  as  my  Mondays  are  sometimea  characterized  by 
this  feeling.  My  birthday  was  ushered  in  with  deep  humil- 
iation of  soul,  and  some  gratitude  to  God  for  the  mercies  of 
the  past  year ;  but  neither  were  in  that  degree  which  my 
past  unfaithfulness,  and  the  goodness  of  my  gracious  and 
long-suflFering  Lord,  demanded.  With  earnest  resolves  to  be 
more  faithful  and  more  entirely  devoted  to  him  the  coming 
year  of  my  life,  I  was  enabled  to  make  an  unreserved  dedi- 
cation of  body,  soul,  and  spirit,  to  the  service  of  that  God, 
whose  favor  is  better  than  life.  I  then  opened  on  the  fifth 
chapter  of  Daniel,  and  read  it  upon  my  knees,  with  very 
solemn  feelings. 

The  revival  is  advancing  with  great  power  in  this  town. 
We  are  now  holding  special  services  in  Great  Thornton 
Street  chapel,  which  is  the  fifth  chapel  I  have  visited  since 
my  arrival  in  Hull.  I  have  preached  m  the  above  chapel 
every  night,  with  the  exception  of  Mondays  and  Saturdays, 
during  the  last  eight  or  nine  weeks.  On  the  3d  instant  we 
held  a  meeting  for  the  new  converts,  sunilar  to  that  which  I 
described  to  you  m  my  letter  from  Cork.  There  were  pres- 
ent about  four  hundred  persons,  every  one  of  whom  was 
happy  in  the  pardoning  love  of  God.  This  may  give  you 
some  idea  of  the  rapidity  and  extent  of  the  work,  as  all 
these  were  converted  to  God  during  the  previous  eight  or 
nine  weeks ;  but  there  were  many  others,  who  had  found 
peace  during  the  same  time,  who  could  not  be  present  at 
this  meeting.  Some  were  detiuned  by  the  business  of  their 
employers,  some  with  their  own  business.  There  were, 
also,  several  sailors  saved,  who  had  gone  to  sea ;  four  in  one 
ship,  besides  nearly  one  hundred  from  the  country  circuits. 
Letters  from  some  of  these  were  read  in  the  meeting,  which 
produced  an  excellent  effect. 

On  Friday,  the  12th  instant,  I  delivered  a  temperance 


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3  HULL  REVIVAL. 

times  characterized  by 
red  in  with  deep  humil- 
God  for  the  mercies  of 
that  degree  'which  my 
IS  of  my  gracious  and 
h.  earnest  resolves  to  be 
oted  to  him  the  coming 
ke  an  mireserved  dedi- 
e  service  of  that  God, 
en  opened  on  the  fifth 
I  my  knees,  with  very 

Eit  power  in  this  town, 
es  m  Great  Thornton 
il  I  have  visited  since 
d  m  the  above  chapel 
[)ndajs  and  Saturdays, 

On  the  8d  instant  we 
similar  to  that  which  I 
irk.  There  were  pres- 
ery  one  of  whom  was 
.  This  may  give  you 
at  of  the  work,  as  all 

the  previous  eight  or 
}thers,  who  had  found 
uld  not  be  present  at 
•y  the  business  of  their 
ismess.  There  were, 
me  to  sea ;  four  in  one 
n  the  country  circmta. 
.  in  the  meeting,  which 

elivered  a  temperance 


SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OP  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 


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lecture,  in  behalf  of  the  Hull  Total  Abstinence  Society,  in 
the  Town  Hall ;  the  mayor  having  kindly  granted  it  for  the 
occasion.  The  place  was  densely  crowded,  and  I  have 
seldom  seen  so  much  enthusiasm  manifested  in  a  good  cause, 
as  during  the  address.  The  Lord  blessed  me  exceedingly, 
and  gav3  mo  great  liberty  of  speech. 

At  the  close  of  the  lecture,  a  very  respectable  member 
of  the  Society  of  Friends  arose,  and,  in  the  midst  of  the 
most  profound  silence,  stated  that  he  was  a  dealer  in  British 
wines,  in  the  town  of  Hull;  that  he  had  had  sci-uples 
respecting  the  trade  for  some  time;  that  some  had  asserted 
these  wines  were  not  intoxicating  in  their  qualities,  but  he 
knew  to  the  contrary.  "  And  now,"  he  said,  "  although  I 
shall  sustain  a  loss  in  the  abandonment  of  the  traflSc,  yet  I 
shall  do  so  from  the  present  night.  I  have  a  quantity  of 
wine  in  my  cellar,  how  much,  or  what  the  value  I  am  not 
able  to  state ;  but  I  cannot  sell  it,  and  be  consistent ; "  and 
turmng  to  the  gentleman,  in  the  chair,  he  said,  "  Friend, 
thee  may  send  thy  horse  and  cart  for  it  to-morrow,  and  take 
it  away,  and  do  what  thee  pleases  with  it." 

The  effect  upon  the  assembled  multitudes  was  tremendous. 
A  few  minutes  after  this,  the  majority  of  the  meeting  were 
lifting  up  their  hands  to  heaven,  as  a  pledge,  that  from  that 
hour  they  renounced  the  use  of  all  intoxicating  drinks.  1 
have  no  doubt  that,  could  we  have  held  a  few  more  meetings 
of  a  similar  kind,  the  liquor  trade  and  intemperance  would 
have  received  a  blow  from  which  they  would  not  have 
recovered  for  a  long  time  to  come.  And  yet,  I  have  found 
some  good  people  lately,  who,  notwithstanding  that  the  hor- 
rors of  the  trade  and  of  the  habit  referred  to  are  staring 
them  in  the  face  daily,  would  have  seriously  deprecated  a 
series  of  such  temperance  meetings,  let  the  results  be  ua 
they  might.    Poor  inconsistent  human  nature!    Wp  uiuit 


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868    SCENES   AND  INCIDENTS  OP  TUB  HULL  REVIVAL. 

have  charity;  but,  really,  it  requires  a  stretch  of  it  on 
behalf  of  those,  who,  for  fashion's  sake,  and  for  the  privilege 
of  sipping  a  little  wine,  and  treating  their  visitors  to  that 
which  may  prove  their  nun,  as  it  has  done  to  hundreds  of 
thousands,  would  not  only  shut  themselves  out  from  taking 
any  part  in  this  great  and  glorious  temperance  reformation, 
but  weaken  the  hands  of  those  who  are  engaged  in  its  pro 
motion.    But  tins  is  not  all.    Such  persons  not  only  crippl* 
themselves  from  doing  any  thing  to  help  it  forward,  but,  for 
consistency's  sake,  they  are  absolutely  forced  mto  oppositiot 
to  what,  in  their  secret  consciences,  they  cannot  but  allow 
to  be  the  safest  and  speediest  method  to  dry  up  this  principal 
source  of  all  the  poverty  and  crime,  and  of  the  physical, 
mental,  and  moral  degradation,  winch  scourges  our  unhappy 
world,  m  the  nineteenth  century. 

Many  undertake  to  lecture  me  upon  the  injury  they  ap- 
prehend my  health  is  sustaining,  firom  not  helping  myself  to 
a  littie  wine,  in  time  oi  exhaustion.  My  reply  is,  I  seldom 
feel  any  thing  of  the  kind  since  I  renounced  the  use  of 
alcoholic  stimulants ;  but  when  I  do  feel  any  thing  like  feeble- 
ness, a  little  rest,  with  some  nourishing  food,  and  some  simple 
drink,  such  as  milk,  water,  or  a  cup  of  tea  or  coffee,  very 
soon  elevate  "  tired  nature "  into  the  proper  tone,  without 
goading  it  with  alcohol.  It  is  with  these  intoxicating  drinks, 
as  with  physic  ;  accustom  nature  to  them,  and  she  will  grad- 
ually cease  to  depend  upon  her  own  resources,  and  will  rely 
upon  what  is  unnatural  and  artificial.  "  But  you  will  yet  be 
forced  to  come  down  from  those  elevated  sentiments,"  say 
some,  "and  use  a  little  wme  for  your  stomach's  sake,  and 
your  often  infirmities."  Be  it  so ;  and  were  it  ordered  me 
by  a  physician,!  might  be  induced  to  take  it  as  a  medicine 
for  a  time,  if  nothing  else  would  do.  Nor,  in  such  a  case, 
would  it  be  fjur  for  any  one  to  say  I  had  abandoned  the  priur 


1  HULL  REVIVAL. 

>s  a  stretch  of  it  on 
3,  and  for  the  privilege 
;  their  visitors  to  that 
I  done  to  hundreds  of 
iselves  out  from  taking 
mperance  reformation, 
ire  engaged  in  its  pro 
ersons  not  only  crippl* 
elp  it  forward,  but,  foir 
^  forced  into  oppositioa 
they  cannot  but  allow 
to  dry  up  this  principal 
I,  and  of  the  physical, 
i  scourges  our  unhappy 

m  the  injury  they  ap- 
I  not  helping  myself  to 
My  reply  is,  I  seldom 
renounced  the  use  of 
)el  any  thing  Uke  feeble- 
tg  food,  and  some  simple 
>  of  tea  or  coffee,  very 
le  proper  tone,  without 
bese  mtoxicating  drinks, 
;hem,  and  she  will  grad- 
resources,  and  will  rely 
"  But  you  will  yet  be 
ivated  sentiments,"  say 
)ur  stomach's  sake,  and 
i<nd  were  it  ordered  me 
)  take  it  as  a  medicine 
Nor,  in  such  a  case, 
had  abandoned  the  priit- 


SCENE3  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL.    869 

ciple.  But  I  certainly  would  cease  from  the  medicine  as 
soon  as  possible,  or  set  myself  down  as  a  "  confirmed  in- 
vaUd."  Let  my  future  course  be  as  it  may,  I  intend 
to  take  the  stand  occupied  by  the  devoted  Timothy,  who 
would  not  taste  a  single  drop  of  wine,  except  at  the  sac- 
rament, till  ordered  by  the  highest  authority  in  the  church 
—  St.  Paul —not  as  a  beverage,  but  as  a  medicine.  Now, 
perhaps,  if  the  apostle  were  upon  the  earth,  and  acquainted 
with  my  constitution,  and  with  the  nature  of  the  wines  and 
other  intojucating  drinks  sold  m  these  kingdoms,  he  would 
lay  just  as  positive  an  injunction  upon  James  Caughey,  that, 
for  his  "  stomach's  sake  "  he  must  refrain  from  their  use  en- 
tirely. But,  as  I  do  not  expect  *^  enjoy  a  correspondence 
with  St.  Paul  till  I  meet  him  m  neaven,  I  am  not  to  be 
blamed  if  I  stand  as  firm  by  my  tee-total  principles  as  did 
heavenly-minded  Timothy,  till  convinced  by  an  authority,  if 
not  so  high,  yet  such  as  my  reason  must  respect. 

If  any  man  in  Europe  has  ^ven  tee-totalism  a  fair  trial,  I 
nave  done  so,  during  those  extraordinary  labors  in  which 
I  have  been  so  long  engaged.    My  health,  thank  God,  was 
never  better,  nor  my  spirits  in  a  livelier  state,  than  at  present. 
Nor  shall  I,  without  the  most  convincing  reasons,  lay  down  a 
great  moral  power  which  God  has  given  me  in  the  ranks  of 
my  temperance  brethren.    Instead  of  croaking  and  whining 
over  the  real  or  supposed  errors  or  inconsistencies  of  some  of 
the  tee-totallers,  in  substituting  the  principle  for  reli^on,  and 
using  harsh  language  and  measures,  where  nulder  would  be 
more  effective,  I  will  plunge  in  among  them,  as  thorough-  . 
going  a  tee-totaller  as  any  of  them — convince,  if  possible,  i 
ray  beloved  friends,  where  they  may  be  wrong,  and  neu-  ; 
tralize  their  errors  by  the  eternal   truths  of  Christianity. 
But  this  they  never  would  allow,  were  they  suspicious  of 
my  being  in  the  habit  of  takmg  these  intoxicating  drinks. 


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870    SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OP  THE  HDLL  REVIVAL. 

Now,  I  do  consider  this  a  very  valuable  'vantage  ground ; 
nor  shall  I  abandon  it  without  the  strongest  reasons. 

On  Sabbuth,  the  14th  instant,  I  returned  to  the  Kingston 
cbapel,  and  spent  the  day  there,  preaching  twice.  The 
crowd  of  people  was  amazing.  Many  could  not  get  in,  and 
went  away.  In  the  afternoon,  we  had  a  prayer  meeting. 
The  lower  part  of  the  chapel  was  full,  and  there  were  many 
in  the  gallery. 

In  a  certain  part  of  the  meeting,  while  the  congregation 
was  standing,  and  the  altar^rail  waa  encompassed  by  penitents, 
the  people  were  addressed  upon  the  necessity  of  an  immediate 
and  universal  cry  to  God  for  a  more  copious  outpouring  of 
the  Holy  Spirit.  The  exhortation  was  short — only  about 
three  minutes  —  but  to  the  point,  and  full  of  divine  unction. 
"  And  now,"  said  the  cxhorter,  "  down  upon  your  knees, 
every  man,  woman,  and  child  of  you."  Here  ensued  one 
of  the  most  majestic  scenes  I  ever  witnessed  —  a  simultane- 
ous  motion  of  more  than  one  thousand  people,  struggling  to 
get  to  theur  knees  —  some  half  bent,  others  rapidly  moving 
in  that  position,  to  find  a  place  to  kneel.  They  seemed,  in 
fact,  like  an  army  rushing  to  battle.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Thomp- 
son remarked  to  mo,  as  we  were  standing  together  in  the 
reading  desk  at  the  moment,  that  it  was  one  of  the  finest  and 
sublimest  sights  that  he  ever  beheld.  In  a  few  moments  the 
glory  of  God  seemed  to  fill  the  chapel ;  but  eternity  alono 
must  unfold  the  wonderful  effects  of  that  afternoon's  ser- 
vice. 

Yesterday  forenoon,  I  preached  again  in  the  Kingston 
chapel,  in  behalf  of  the  Chapel  Trust  Fund.  Although  a 
week-day  service,  the  congregation  was  very  large,  and  com 
posed  of  most  of  the  denonunations  in  town.  The  Lord  gave 
me  great  liberty  on  Romans  viii.  15, 16.  The  collection 
was  noble. 


B  BULL  REVIVAL. 

lable  'vantage  ground; 
rongcst  reasons, 
turned  to  the  Kingston 
preaching  twice.  Tho 
f  could  not  get  in,  and 
dad  a  prajcr  meeting. 
I,  and  there  were  many 

irlule  the  congregation 
compassed  by  penitents, 
scessity  of  an  immediate 
copious  outpouring  of 
(vas  short — only  about 
I  full  of  divine  unction, 
own  upon  your  knees, 
."  Hero  ensued  one 
tnessed  —  a  simultane- 
i  people,  struggling  to 
others  rapidly  moving 
eel.  They  seemed,  in 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Thomp- 
anding  together  in  the 
as  one  of  the  finest  and 

In  a  few  moments  the 
lel ;  but  eternity  alono 

that  afternoon's  ser- 

gain  in  the  Kingston 
st  Fund.     Although  a 
as  very  large,  and  com 
town.     The  Lord  gave 
i,  16.      The  collecdon 


BCEXE8  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL.    371 

The  following  letter  and  resolution  show  the  estimate  set 

on  M:\  Caiighey's  labors  by  tho  official  memliore  of  the  Wos- 

leyan  churches  in  Hull. 

"Hull,  March  26,  1844. 

"  To  the  Rev.  James  C'ughey. 
"Dear  Sir, 

"  We  have  great  pleasure  in  handing  over  to  you  a  copy 
of  a  resolution,  passed  unanimously,  at  the  Quarterly  Meet- 
ing of  the  Hull  West  Circuit,  held  yesterday  in  the  vestry 
of  Waltham  Street  chapel ;  and  in  doing  so,  we  beg  to  offer 
our  sincere  and  best  wishes  for  your  health  and  happiness,  as 
well  as  for  the  blessing  of  the  great  Head  of  the  church  on 
all  your  future  endeavors  to  promote  his  glory,  in  the  salva- 
tion of  immortal  souls. 

"  We   remain  dear  Sir,  yours  in  the  bonds  of  Christian 

love  and  affection,  >*  *  1. 

"Jno.  S.  Richardson,    |     wcuit 
Thomas  Kenwood,       |  Stewards." 

"  Hull  West  Circuit  Quarterly-Meeting,  held  in  the  vestry 
of  Waltham  Street  chapel,  on  Monday,  the  25tli  of 
March,  1844.  ^  . 

"  The  Rev.  Thomas  Martin  m  the  cliair. 
"  Resolved^  That  this  meeting  acknowledges,  with  devout 
gratitude  to  Almighty  God,  the  success  wWch  it  has  pleased 
him  to  vouchsafe  to  the  special  reli^ous  services  instituted  of 
late,  and  still  continued  in  this  Circuit;  and,  in  connection 
therewith,  feels  called  upon  to  offer  its  best  thanks  to  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Martin,  the  esteemed  superintendent  of  this 
Circuit,  and  to  his  colleagues,  the  Rev.  William  Hurt  pud 
the  Rev.  Darnel  West.  This  meeting  furtiier  presents  its 
most  grateful  acknowledgments  to  the  Rev.  James  Caughey, 
of  the  MethocQst  Episcopal  Church  of  America,  for  Ws  very 
valuable  services  in  this  Circuit  during  the  last  three  months ; 


872    SCBNBS  AND  IN0IDBNT8  OF  TOT  HULL  REVIVAL. 

which,  in  connection  with  the  special  meetings  already  re 
ferrcd  to,  having  been  greatly  owned  of  God  to  the  awaken 
ing  and  conversion  of  many  sinners. 
«'  Signed  on  behalf  of  the  meeting, 

«  Jno.  S.  Rioqabdson,  j     Circuit  ^ 
Thomas  Kenwood,    J  Stewards. 

Towards  the  last  of  April,  1844,  Mr.  Caughey  brought  his 
labors  in  Hull  to  a  termination.  We  insert  the  foUowmg 
account  of  the  closing  scenes. 

My  labors  in  Hull  were  brought  to  a  conclusion  during  the 
last  week  in  April,  by  preaching  farewell  sermons  m  three  of 
the  chapels.    The  crowds  were  tremendous,  and  the  affection 
of  the  people  unbounded ;  especially  that  of  the  new  con- 
verts.    It  was  with  the  greatest  difficulty  the  brethren  could 
extricate  me  from  the  multitudes  which  surrounded  the  car- 
riage on  my  departure  from  Great  Thornton  Street  chapel. 
I  can  scarcely  convey  to  you  any  idea  of  the  scene.    Had  1 
staid  to  shake  hands   with  but  one  half   of    those  who 
desired  it,  I  should  not  have  got  off  before  midnight.     The 
excitement  of  mind  was  nearly  too  much  for  me.    Were  I  to 
let  my  pen  have  freedom  to  express  aU  the  love  that  burns 
in  my  bosom  toward  the  people  of  Hull,  and  the  reasons  for 
this  warmth  of  affection,  this  letter  would  extend  to  an 
unreasonable  length.     Noble,  generous,  royal,  enthusiaatic 
Hull '    We  sometimes  talk  of  the  ardor  and  enthusiasm  of 
the  Irish  people ;  but  in  these  respects,  Hull  and  her  chil- 
dren might  be  set  down,  side  by  side,  with  any  city  or  town 
in  the  Emerald  Isle. 

As  to  the  extent  of  the  revival,  as  near  as  could  be  ascer- 
toined  from  records  carefully  kept  during  its  progress,  two 
thousand  three  hundred  persons  obtained  justification,  of 
Whom,  seventeen  hundred  were  from  the  world;  more  than 


r 


B  UULL  REVIVAL. 

I  meetings  already  re 
of  God  to  the  awaken 


QARDSOK 
NWOOD 


)N, )     Circuit 
,,    j  Stewards.*' 

Ir.  Caughey  brought  his 
Ve  insert  the  following 

a  conclusion  during  the 
iwell  sermons  in  three  of 
3ndous,  and  the  affection 
y  that  of  the  new  con- 
culty  the  brethren  could 
dch  surrounded  the  car- 
Chomton  Street  chapel, 
ea  of  the  scene.  Had  I 
ae  half  of  those  who 
■  before  nudiught.  The 
luch  for  me.  Were  I  to 
I  all  the  love  that  burns 
lull,  and  the  reasons  for 
or  would  extend  to  an 
erous,  royal,  enthusiastic 
,rdor  and  enthusiasm  of 
sets,  Hull  and  her  cWl- 
le,  with  any  city  or  town 

a  near  as  could  be  aacer- 
during  its  progress,  two 
)btained  justification,  of 
m  the  world ;  more  than 


SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OP  TUB  HULL  REVIVAL. 

one  thousand  of  tiieso  united  with  the  Wcsloyan  Church  in 
Hull.     The  remainder  of  the  converts  from  the  world  wore 
from  several  country  Circuits  in  Lincolnshire  and  parts  of 
Yorkshire ;  most  of  whom,  it  is  hoped,  have  muted  with  the 
church  in  their  respective  neighborhoods,  and  many  united 
with  other  churches  in  Hull.     Six  hundred  persons  belong-   -, 
ing  to  the  Wesleyan  and  other  churches,  were  also  converted 
during  tiie  revival.    What  the  final  results  may  be,  or  how 
theaoMW  converts  wiU  stand,  time  or  perhaps  eternity  alone 
can  unfold ;  but,  certainly,  the  work  bears  every  feature  cf 
ito  having  been  wrought  of  God.    It  is  admitted,  that  some 
may  have  been  deceived  as  to  their  conversion ;  others  may 
hereafter  bear  too  strict  a  resemblance  to  those  by  no  means 
singdar  cases,  connected  with  that  great  revival  so  strikingly 
illustrated  by  our  Lord,  in  Matthew  xiii.  1 ;  yet,  very  much, 
mider  God,  wiU  depend  upon  the  pastoral  faithfulness  of  tiie 
ministers,  as  well  as  the  individual  exertions  of  the  leaders 
of  classes  on  the  two  Hull  Circuits. 

To  the  ministers  I  could  say  little  on  leaving.    I  felt  I 
could  rather  take  my  place  at  their  feet.    My  soul,  as  it 
always  is  in  a  revival,  and  in  proportion  to  my  success,  was 
deeply  humbled  before  God  and  man.     Several  opportuni- 
ties, however,  were  afibrded  me,  before  I  left  the  town,  of 
exhorting  the  leaders  to  take  special  care  of  the  new  converts 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moriey  very  kindly  invited  a  large  company 
to  meet  me  at  tea  in  their  house ;  and  tiie  foUowing  evemng 
my  excellent  host  and  hostess,  Mr.  and   Mrs.  Thomas 
Holmes,  afforded  me  the  same  delightful  privUege  at  their 
mansion.      These  happy  interviews  shaU  never  be  forgotten. 
Throu<^h  the  kindness  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Thompson,  Super- 
intendent of  the  East  Circuit,  I  enjoyed  »  similar  interview 
with  the  leaders  and  local  preachers  in  the  band-room  at 
George  Yard  chapel.    But  the  «  crowning  meeting  of  all 
82 


iiiiMI|i>iiiMiiiiiii;.illMIJW 


\f^" 


874    SCENES  AND  INCIDENTS  OP  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 

vas  aflTorded  by  the  generosity  of  my  late  host  and  hostess, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Crow.    The  tea  was  given  in  a  largo 
upper  room  of  one  of  his  buildings.    The  company  was  large 
and  highly  respectable  ;  composed  of  local  preachers,  claas- 
xeaders,  and  friends— one  of  the  happiest  seasons  of  the 
kind  I  have  ever  enjoyed.    I  poured  out  my  heart  before 
them,  begging  and  entreating  them,  with  the  deepest  emotion, 
to  spare  no    pains,  that  those  lately  brought  to    God 
might  be  preserved  from  gomg  ba«k  into  the  world.    Four 
evenings  were  spent  in  this  way  most  agreeably  with  the 
leaders.    The  manner  in  which  they  individually  responded 
to  my  requests  andamdous  feelings,  is  too  deeply  engraven 
upon  my  heart  ever  to  be  erased.    Here  I  must  leave  the 
matter  for  the  present.     "  If  I  be  bereaved  of  my  children, 
I  am  bereaved."      Satan  often  tells  me  there  will  be  many 
who  will  backslide  in  Hull,  and  that,  in  consequence  thereof, 
my  God  will  yet  humble  me  among  them.     But  I  can  only 
turn  my  weeping  eyes  to  God  and  say,  — 

"  Thou  seest  their  wants,  thon  knowest  their  nunes, 
Be  mindful  of  thy  youngest  care ; 
Be  tender  of  the  new-bom  lamba. 
And  gently  in  thy  bosom  bear. 
The  lion  roaring  for  his  prey, 
With  ravening  wolves  on  every  side, 
Watoh  over  them  to  tear  and  slay. 
If  fonnd  one  moment  from  their  guide. 
Satan  his  thousand  arts  essays. 
His  agents  all  their  powers  employ 
To  blast  the  blooming  worli  of  grace, 
The  heavenly  offspring  to  destroy. 
Baffle  the  crooked  serpent's  skill, 
^d  turn  his  sharpest  darts  asid" ; 
Hide  from  their  eyes  the  devilish  ill ; 
0,  save  them  from  the  demon  Pride. 
In  safety  lead  thy  little  flocls 
From  hell,  the  world,  and  sin  seonn  | 
And  set  their  feet  upon  the  rock, 
And  make  in  thee  their  goings  van  t " 


CHB  HULL  RKVIVAI. 

ay  late  host  and  hostess, 
tea  was  ^ven  in  a  large 
The  company  was  large 
i  of  local  preachers,  class- 
happiest  seasons  of  the 
ired  out  my  heart  before 
,  with  the  deepest  emotion, 
lately  brought  to    God 
ck  into  the  world.    Four 
most  agreeably  with  the 
ley  individually  responded 
p,  is  too  deeply  engraven 
.    Here  I  must  leave  the 
>  bereaved  of  my  children, 
bUs  me  there  will  be  many 
at,  in  consequence  thereof, 
g  them.     But  I  can  only 
say,— 

Dowest  thei?  names, 


■Ida, 
(lay, 
lir  gnld*. 

t 

ploy 
gne; 
roy. 
ill, 
id"; 
Ishill; 
Prid*. 

Honrci 

I  (tin I" 


BCBNE8  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  THB  HTJLL  REVIVAL.    875 

Having  left  Hull,  Mr.  Caughoy  revisited  hisold  friends  in 
Leeds.  It  was  only  a  flying  visit,  but  the  account  is  mterest- 
ing,  a&  it  iUustrates  the  permanency  of  the  Leeds  revival. 
Be  says : 

I  spent  the  bat  Sabbath  of  April  in  Leeds,  and  preached 
m  St.  Peter's  chapel,  morning  and  evening.     During  the 

forenoon  discourse,  most  of  the  ^^^g'^f  ^^^V^^^  ^"^I't^, 
tears.    The  house  was  filled  with  the  glory  of  God.    I  have 
never  revisited  a  pkce  where  greater  affection  was  manifest, 
ed  towards  me,  nor  more  confidence  in  the  smcenty  of  my 
efforts  to  save  souls.    This  was  contrary  rather  to  what  I 
expected.    From  the  reports  which  had  reached  me  of  th* 
JTvous  «  fiOUng  away  "  of  the  new  converts,  I  apprehend- 
ed my  influence  in  Leeds  must  have  been  greaUy  unpaired. 
This,  how«ver,  was  far  from  being  the  case.     The  frienda 
from  all  parts  of  the  town  were  present,  and  so  were  very 
many  of  my  spiritual  children ;  and  great  was  our  joy  and 

reioicing  in  the  Lord. 

I  was  much  affected  at  seeing  Mrs.  Shann  m  the  conffre- 
gation,  with  part  of  her  famUy.    You  will  remember  Ae 
Sme,  as  from  my  letters  you  learned  that  I  stopped  at  h^ 
house  during  pai  of  my  stay  in  Leeds     The  death  of  1^. 
Shami,  which  occurred  about  four  months  ago,  was  sudden. 
Having  been  called  to  London  on  business  he  was  taken  wi^ 
Tsickfes.  which  terminated  in  death.    His  famdy  arrived 
in  London  a  few  days  before  he  died.    His  end  was  not  ody 
peaceful  but  triumphant.    I  well  remember  the  mght,  d^ 
bg  the  revival  in  Brunswick  chapel,  when  he  came  forwa^ 
to  the  altar,,  with  many  others,  to  seek  salvation.     Thet^ 
was,  «  How  long  halt  ye  between  two  opmions  ?       WhUe 
kne  Img  there  with  several  others  of  his  famdy,  he  obtomed 
^evidence,  clear  and  satisfi^ctory,  that  God,  for  Ohnrt'. 


876  SOSNES  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  EEVIVAT» 

B»ke,  had  forgiven  his  sins,  and  had  adopted  him  into  his 
family.  The  fear  of  the  Lord  had  been  before  his  eyes  for 
many  years ;  but  till  that  memorable  mght,  he  had  not  en- 
joyed, I  believe,  a  conscious  sense  of  the  pardoning  love  of 
God.  A  part  of  his  family,  with  himself,  united  with  the 
Methodist  church  immediately  ;  and,  with  all  the  mmplicity 
of  one  but  newly  found  in  Christ,  he  deolared,  from  week  to 
week,  what  great  things  God  had  done  for  his  soul.  A  few 
months  passed  away,  and  he  was  called  to  unite  with  the 
church  triumphant.  Mr.  Shann  stood  hi^  in  the  commer- 
(ual  worfd,  as  a  gentleman  of  lofty  principle  and  unsullied 
mtegrity.  He  showed  me  great  kindness  during  my  red- 
dence  in  his  hospitable  house,  for  which  I  hope  he  will  ba 
rewarded  in  the  resurrection  of  the  just.    AmenS 

On  the  same  night  in  wluch  he  died,  being  in  Hull,  I  had 
a  dream.  I  thought  I  was  waling  al(»g  a  strange  and 
lonely  road.  After  passmg  a  spot  where  four  roads  struck 
^  in  liferent  directions,  I  turned  and  looked  to  my  left, 
and  saw  Mr.  Shann  riding  down  one  of  tiie  roads.  He 
dbove  two  foe  horses  of  dappled  gray,  which  were  attached  to 
a  large  ]^eoe  of  timber  elevated  on  wheels.  He  was  seated 
en  the  timber,  driving  rapidly;  and  after  waring  severai 
adieus  with  his  hand,  he  dadied  onward,  and  was  won  out 
of  si^t.  As  he  was  disappearing  from  my  eyes,  these 
words  reached  my  ear :  "  He  is  in  great  haste  to  pay  a  debt'* 
I  awoke  with  the  deep  impresdon  resting  upon  my  nund, 
<^  Mr.  ^ann  is  dead."  In  the  morning,  I  told  Mr.  Field,  at 
whose  house  I  was  then  staying,  that  I  believed  <Hie  of  my 
Leeds  friends  had  passed  into  otermty.  To  his  surprise,  a 
few  hours  after,  I  presented  him  with  a  letter,  which  gave 
the  account  of  the  sudden  death  of  Mr.  Shann. 

While  in  Leeds  I  took  occaedon  to  inquure  carefully  into 
«he  truth  of  those  reports  which  had  been  put  into  circulation 


a,i#— i.w—  ijiM 


HB  HULL  BEVIVAT. 

lad  adopted  him  into  bis 
been  before  his  eyes  for 
)le  mgbt,  be  had  not  en- 
of  the  pardoning  love  of 
himself,  united  with  the 
cl,  with  all  the  simplicity 
be  declared,  from  week  to 
one  for  bis  soul.  A  few 
called  to  unite  with  the 
Eood  bi^  in  the  commer- 
y  principle  and  imsalfied 
kindness  during  my  red* 
vhich  I  hope  he  will  bft 
I  just.  Amen! 
iied,  being  in  Hull,  I  had 
Sag  al(«g  a  strange  and 
where  four  roads  struck 
I  and  looked  to  my  left, 
one  of  Ae  roads.  He 
ly,  wbidi  were  attached  to 
I  wheels.  He  was  seated 
nd  after  waving  several 
award,  and  was  looii  out 
ng  from  my  eyes,  these 
great  baste  to  pay  a  debt.'* 
1  resting  vifoa.  my  mind, 
ming,  I  told  Mr.  Field,  at 
lat  I  believed  one  of  my 
nity.  To  his  surprise,  a 
mth  a  letter,  which  ^ve 
?  Mr.  Shann. 
to  inqmre  carefully  into 
1  been  put  into  circulation 


BCBOTS   AND  IN0IDKNT8  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL.    877 

respecting  the  late  revival ;  and  with  afew  slight  exceptions, 
I  am  happy  to  say  they  appeared  to  have  no  foundation  m 
truth.   I  had  several  conversations  with  mtelhgent  individuals 
on  the  subject.    Tbeirreplies  to  ray  inquiries  may  be  summed 
up  by  quoting  the  substance  of  the  remarks  of  one  ^dividual : 
« In  order,  my  deax  Sir,  to  understand  correctly  the  blessed 
effects  of  that  revival,  to  ibe  fullest  extent,  the  state  of  the 
Wesleyau  society  in  Leeds,  previous  to  that  remarkable  out- 
pouring  of  the  Spirit,  should  be  considered.    Dunng  two 
years  which  preceded  that  revival,  in  consequence  of  com- 
mercial distress  and  the  consequent  poverty  of  the  people, 
togetiier  with  removals,  deaths,  backslidings,  and  expulsions, 
we  were  gomg  down  at  the  rate  of  one  hundred  per  qu^ter. 
You  are  aware  the  revival  had  begun  in  some  parte  of  the 
Circmt  and  extended  into  the  country  before  you  erne 
among  us.    The  work  advanced  with  greater  power  after 
your  arrival;  and,  after  the  quarterly  viatation,  we  found 
tiie  retrograde  movement  had  been  put  a  stop  to,  and  we  had 
a  small  increase,  and  many  on  trial.     From  f^J^^^Jl 
have  been  gradually  on  the  advance.     It  is  admitted  that  a 
few  of  the  new  converte  did  go  ba«k  to  the  world,  and  some 
whose  names  were  on  the  list  we  never  found;  but,  tiiat 
tiie  remal  has  been  a  failure,  and  that  the  society  is  just 
where  it  was  before,  is  a  positive  falsehood.    We  can  present 
to  friends  and  foes  the  convincing  proof  of  our  contiradiction, 
by  showing  an  increase  on  tiie  year  of  five  hundred  mem- 

Knrfi  " 

Another  said:  "We  are  not  after  all  to  estimate  the 
value  of  that  revival  so  much  by  the  mere  numerical  ui- 
crease,  as  by  the  Wgh  tone  of  piety  it  has  oiffused  through 

our  church."  ^  •  ^  ^ 

I  account  for  these  reports  thus :    Ist.  The  conversion  of 
fourteen  or  fifteen  hundreds  of  people  in  tiie  course  of  a  few 
82' 


MMlMHIH 


uiiJiltJiii'''  '-''*''  i'"<''^ 


878    SCENES  AHu  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  BEVIVAL. 

months,  could  not  but  be  noised  abroad.  2d.  It  was  not 
generally  known,  that  hundreds  of  these  were  members  of 
the  Wcedejan  and  of  other  churches  m  town  and  country. 
3d.  It  was  expected,  by  those  who  did  not  understand  the 
real  character  of  the  statistics,  that  a  very  large  increase 
would  be  realized.  4th.  As  quarter  succeeded  quarter,  such 
persons  looked  in  vfun  for  tiiis  great  augmentation  of  numbers. 
5th.  Unguarded  and  unqualified  ezpressiras  were  uttered  in 
certain  quarters,  that  the  greater  part  of  the  converts  could 
not  be  found,  or  had  gone  back  to  the  world,  because  two 
out  of  a  dozen,  or  three  out  of  thirty,  had  refused  to  attend 
class,  while  the  owners  of  several  names  could  not  be  found: 
"Therefore  the  revival  has  resulted  in  afeilure."  Other 
causes  might  be  given — but  I  forbear. 

I  spent  a  most  delightful  Sabbath  in  Leeds.  My  old  offi- 
cers, local  preachers,  and  leaders,  from  all  the  circuits  in 
town,  rallied  around  me.  God  was  with  us  in  power,  fmd 
many  sinners  were  converted.  A  few  of  my  children,  who 
had  been  tempted  by  the  deyil  into  the  road  to  hell,  were  re-' 
cHumed  and  brought  back  agtun,  with  many  tears,  into  the 
path  of  heaven. 

Next  day  I  returned  to  Hull  by  railway.  When  within 
about  forty  miles  of  Hull,  the  engineer,  when  pausing  at  a 
station,  introduced  himself  to  me  as  one  of  my  children  in 
the  Lord.  He  requested  me  to  ride  a  f^w  miles  with  him  on 
the  platform  of  the  locomotive,  m  order  to  see  the  machinery 
in  motion.  As  we  were  flying  along,  he  related  his  awaken- 
ing and  conversion.  When  we  came  to  a  certain  place,  he 
said :  "  There !  that  is  the  place  where  God  set  my  soul  at 
liberty.  My  agony  of  mind  was  very  great.  So  much  so, 
that  when  we  stopped  at  a  certain  station,  I  ran  from  the 
engine  into  a  retired  place,  and  cried  to  God.  When  we 
sUufted,  I  scarcely  knew  what  I  did,  I  was  so  wretohed. 


1 


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m  HULL  REVIVAL. 

broad.  2d.  It  was  nol 
these  were  members  of 
3  ID  town  aad  country, 
did  not  understand  the 
b  a  very  large  increase 
r  succeeded  quarter,  such 
ugmentation  of  numbers. 
)res8i(ms  Trere  uttered  in 
art  of  the  converts  could 
the  world,  because  two 
7,  had  refused  to  attend 
imes  could  not  be  found : 
d  in  a&ilure."  Other 
ar. 

in  Leeds.  Mj  old  offi- 
from  all  the  circuits  in 
I  with  us  in  power,  and 
few  of  my  children,  who 
he  road  to  hell,  were  re^ 
ith  many  tears,  into  the 

railway.  When  witMn 
leer,  when  pausing  at  a 
s  one  of  my  children  in 
i  a  few  miles  with  him  on 
tor  to  see  the  machinery 
;,  he  related  his  awaken- 
ne  to  a  certain  place,  he 
ere  Crod  set  my  soul  at 
ry  great.      So  much  so, 

station,  I  ran  from  the 
■ied  to  God.  When  we 
lid,  I  was  so  wretched. 


BOBNES  AND  INCIDENTS  OB-  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 


879 


But  my  cry  for  mercy  went  up  to  heaven.  When  r^M^ng* 
Sir,  at  the  rate  of  thirty  nules  an  hour,  God  met  me.  The 
rapidity  of  our  motions  was  no  hinderance.  He  spoke  peace 
to  ray  soul,  and  in  a  moment  myheU  was  turned  into  heavwi, 
and  I  rejoiced  with  joy  unspeakable  and  full  of  glory."  The 
above  is  but  tiie  substance  of  his  experience.     All  glory  be  > 

On  the  first  of  this  month,  in  company  with  the  Kev.  wu- 
liam  Illmgworth  and  wife,  the  Rev.  John  Vine  and  w^e,  and 
a  number  of  other  friends,  I  enjoyed  an  excursion  to  Welton 

Vale. 

The  occasion  of  our  visit  arose  from  the  kind  invitation  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Field,  at  whose  house  I  was  first  en- 
tertained on  my  arrival  in  Hall,  and  where  I  spent  the  last 
week  of  my  stay  in  that  town.      They  contrived  the  excur- 
sion in  order  to  celebrate  the  anmvcrsary  of  their  mamag, 
and  also  as  a  token  of  respect  for  your  correspondent.     We 
were  flavored  with  as  lovely  a  day  as  our  heavenly  Fattier 
could  have  given  us.    « It  was,"  as  a  poet  has  expressed  it, 
"one  of  those  heavenly  days  that  cannot  die."    The  scenery- 
was  beautified  all  the  way  with  hiU  and  Me,  fine  gardens, 
fruitful  fields  sprinkled  with  trees  and  fringed  with  woods,  m 
wWch  are  nesUed  sweet  cottages  and  elegant  mansions;  the 
whole  enUvened  by  extensive  views  of  the  Humber,  visible 
fiem  various  points  <rf  elevation. 

Arriving  at  the  Vale,  we  obtained  permission  from  the  pro- 
prietor  to  enter.  After  enjoying  a  few  wriks,  tnwed  out  in 
many  cUreotions,  and  through  a  variety  of  romantic  scenes, 
the  cloth  was  spread  upon  the  grass,  beneath  a  refreshk^ 
shade,  where  wepartook  of  an  excellent  dmner.  The  party 
then  retired  to  a  summer-ho-e,  commanding  an  extensive 
piwpeot.  Beneath  flowed  the  Humber ',  the  opposite  »hore» 
displayed  the  hills  and  dales  of  Lincolnshire,  with  the  «««»• 


SSO    SOEinK  AKD  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 


fluence  point "  of  the  rivers  Trent  (if  I  recollect  right) 
njid  Ouse  witU  the  Humber. 

The  happy  couple  were  then  addressed  by  several  speak- 
ers, with  numerous  congratulations  and  hearty  wishes  for 
many  happy  returns  of  the  season,  all  of  which,  I  have  no 
doubt,  were  felt ;  and  to  which  Mr.  Field  replied  with  very 
good  grace.  Our  proceedings  were,  however,  disturbed  by 
the  arrival  of  a  messenger,  stating  that  '*  the  village  had 
comemto  the  vale,"  and  that ''  they  expected  a  sermon  from 
Mr.  Caughey."  We  found  nearly  two  hundred  people  con- 
gregated beneath  some  shady  trees  on  the  brow  of  the  hill. 
We  walked  into  the  midst  of  them  and  sang:  — 

"  My  God,  the  spring  of  til  my  joys, 
The  life  of  my  delight! , 
The  gloiy  of  my  Lrighteet  daya, 
And  comfort  of  my  night* ! " 

After  which,  several  of  the  brethren  prayed,  and  I  gave 
an  exhortation.  The  dear  people  seemed  much  affected. 
When  I  requested  those  who  were  determined  to  meet  us  in 
heaven,  to  tugnify  the  same  by  raising  the  right  hand  heaven- 
ward, the  sadden  and  universal  show  of  hands  gave 
evidence  that  the  feeling  and  purpose  were  general.  One 
person,  I  have  since  been  informed,  found  peace  during  the 
service.  We  had  a  pleasant  ride  back  to  Hull,  and  had  the 
privilege,  at  night,  of  hearing  the  Rev.  Dr.  Beaumont  preach 
an  excellent  sermon  in  Kingston  chapel. 

We  cannot  close  tins  chapter  better  than  by  inserting  the 
following  letter  from  a  pious  gentleman  of  Hull,  concerning 
the  subsequent  influence  of  Mr.  O.'s  labors  in  that  town.  It 
carries  us  a  little  beyond  the  time  of  our  narrative,  but  is 
nevertheless  an  appropriate  conclusion  to  the  foregoing  revival 
inoidenis. 


igf^^tigSm 


S  HULL  BBVIVAL. 

i  (if  I  recollect  right) 

esaed  by  several  speak- 
and  hearty  wishes  for 
11  of  which,  I  have  no 
Field  replied  with  very 
however,  disturbed  by 
that  "the  village  had 
expected  a  sermon  from 
TO  hundred  people  con- 
n  the  brow  of  the  hill, 
dsang:  — 

jrjoyi, 


in 


en  prayed,  and  I  gsive 
leemed  much  affected, 
termined  to  meet  us  in 
the  right  hand  heaveii> 
show  of  hands  gave 
le  were  general.  One 
bund  peace  during  the 
k  to  Hull,  and  had  the 
.  Dr.  Beaumont  preach 
ye\. 

)r  than  by  inserting  the 
tan  of  Hull,  concerning 
labors  in  that  town.  It 
[>f  our  narrative,  but  is 
to  the  foregoing  revival 


SCENES   AND  INCIDENTS  OP  THE  HULL  REVIVAI      381 

"  Hull,  June  25,  '  344. 
"Mt  dear  Brothbb, 

«  We  had  our  Quarterly  Meeting  yesterday.    I  vrish  you 
could  have  been  present;  it  would  have  greatly  encouraged 
you.    We  have  now  on  the  HuU  East  near  eight  hundred 
more  meeting  in  class  tlian  we  had  before  your  viwit.     Mr. 
T.  has    the  numbers,  seven  hundred  and   ninety-four    or 
six ;  but  I  should  say,  we  have  a  few  above  eight  hundred. 
Our  finances  are  equally  encoura^ng ;  — we  have  an  m- 
crease  of  X60  per  quarter.    We  passed  a  resolution,  which 
will  be  handed  to  you  by  our  Circuit  stewards.     It  will,  I 
trust,  gratify  you,  and  encourage  you  to  go  on  in  the  name 
of  Him  who  sent  you  on  this  glorious  mission.     I  believe  the 
Spirit  of  God  wiU  not  mislead  you,  if  you  continue  to  be 
faithful.    God  will  stand  by  you  and  his  own  truth.    You 
remember  the  second  Sunday  evemng  you  preached  in  Walt- 
ham  Street  chapel,  when  you  said  some  strong  things.    A 
very  wicked  persecutor  was  induced  to  go  into  Waltham 
Street  chapel,  as  he  was  passing ;  the  word  reached  his 
heart;    he   never  rested  until  he  was  saved;  — and  a 
more  sound  and  clear  conversion  we   had  not  in  Hull. 
His  name  is  Thomas  McC.      I  am  sorry  to  say  he  per- 
ished last  week  in  the  Manchester  steamer,  witii  all  on  board ; 
they  left  this  for  Hamburg  last  Friday  week.    He  has  left  a 
wife  and  two  children.    Is  not  this  very  startling,  that  so 
many  should  be  swept  away  that  have  lately  been  converted, 
and  others,  who  rejected  the  offers  of  mercy,  also  cut  down  ? 
May  the  mighty  power  of  God  still  attend  your  ministry! 
We  had  a  very  glorious  day  last  Sabbatix  —  Kingston  chap- 
el full  at  the  love-feast,  and  great  power;   many  saved 
in  George  Yard  at   night;  — we  had  a  great   victory. 
You  must  remember,  I  shaU  expect  you  to  come  by  way 


MMta 


It 


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-mrnmHf^'' "'"''■  ii'\l*iH  <it»-<iJifirii7ft'«B  itfl'ititWl'Viimt rfii 


882    80BXES  AND  INCIDENTS  OF  THE  HULL  REVIVAL. 

of  H'lll  to  London.  I  cannot  exctjse  you.  Hoping  soon 
to  heaj  from  you,  I  am,  my  dear  brother,  yours  very  af- 
fectionately, 

"WiLUAM  Field." 


iUWiiliWiiMilH 


BE  HULL  RKVIVAL. 

cuse  you.     Hopbg  soon 
brother,  yours  very  af- 

"WiLUAM  Field.'* 


1 


CHAPTER    XXII. 

DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINE  GLORY  IN  SHEFFIELD. 

It  was  Mr.  Caughey's  intention  to  proceed  directiy  from 
HuU  to  Huddersfield.  But  the  Sheffield  brethren,  having 
by  some  misunderstanding  been  led  to  expect  him  in  their 
circuits,  had  made  such  public  announcements  as  could  not 
ynth  propriety  be  disappointed.  Hence  Mr.  C,  having  but 
just  begun  his  labors  in  Huddersfield,  felt  himself  under  a 
sort  of  moral  compulsion  to  leave,  and  to  make  an  attempt 
on  the  kingdom  of  darkness  in  Sheffield  first.  His  success 
there  showed  the  wisdom  of  his  decision— it  was  really 
marvellous.  With  this  brief  introduction,  we  leave  the 
reader  to  pursue  the  narrative  with  the  assurance  that  this 
chapter  will  be  to  him  a  "feast  of  fiat  things." 

On  Saturday,  the  4th  of  May,  1844, 1  left  Hull  by  rail- 
way for  Huddersfield,  where  I  arrived  in  a  few  hours,  and 
was  conducted  to  New-House,  the  mansion  of  Mr.  Thomas 
MaUinson,  where  I  was  hospitably  entertained  durmg  my 
stay.  Next  day  I  preached  twice  in  the  Queen  Street 
chapel— a  large  and  handsome  edifice.  Sinners  were 
converted  in  the  afternoon  and  at  mght.  I  preached  also 
on  Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday,  and  Friday  evemngs. 
Each  service  was  crowned  with  the  conversion  of  smners 
and  sanctification  of  believers;  indeed  there  was  every 

888 


IWiUWJW<iillWlWMWiWi'? 


H!tljg!WJ>'W"»J"*^>-l  ^il""*"' 


884         DISPLAYS   OP   DIVINE  OLORY  IN   SHEFFIELD. 


appearance  that  we  were  on  the  eve  of  a  very  great  revival 
of  religion.  The  friends  in  Sheffield,  however,  had  so  con- 
strued a  sentence  in  one  of  my  letters,  as  to  imply  a 
positive  promise  to  visit  that  town  at  a  cert^n  time ;  had 
handbills  printed  and  placards  posted  on  the  strength  of  it, 
and  insisted  upon  the  fulfilment,  the  following  Sabbath.  It 
was  a  grievous  thing  to  the  Huddersfield  friends ;  and  they 
protested  against  it.  But  on  my  giving  them  a  promise, 
that  on  my  return  from  my  intended  Italian  tour,  I  would 
revisit  Huddersfield,  they  consented  to  let  me  go.  I  left 
them  with  regret.  The  Wesleyans  have  a  lovely  people  in 
Huddersfield.  A  few  influential  men  of  the  right  stamp, 
appear  to  have  given  a  holy,  elevated,  and  generous  tone  to 
the  entire  church.  Long  may  they  continue  so ;  "  rooted 
and  fixed  in  God." 

The  Wesleyan  ministen  now  stationed  in  Huddersfield 
are,  the  Rev.  John  Greeves,  the  Rev.  Jonathan  J.  Bates, 
and  the  Rev.  Edward  Brice.  I  was  received  by  these 
ministers  with  great  cordiality;  had  the  privilege  of  dming 
in  their  company  several  times  during  my  stay ;  and  each 
interview  only  rendered  the  acquaintance  the  more  interesting 
and  agreeable.    God  bless  them !    Amen. 

On  Saturday,  the  11th  instant,  I  arrived  in  SheflBeld,  and 
was  conducted  by  my  kind  friend  Mr.  John  Unwin,  to  the 
house  of  Mr.  William  Beet,  where  I  received  a  cheering 
welcome,  and  where  I  have  since  remuned.  About  sixty 
persons  have  been  converted  here  already. 

My  sudden  departure  fiwm  Huddersfield  was  sorely  against 
my  will.  I  thought  God  had  sent  me  there.  Perhaps  the 
future  may  explain  it.  When  I  was  in  Hull,  Mr.  Joseph 
Webb  and  Mr.  Thomas  Mallinson  came  with  a  special  and 
presmng  mvitation  to  visit  Huddersfield.  My  mind  waa  not 
to  go ;  the  more  I  thought  of  it,  the  more  averse  I  felt.    I 


-^•iKimr* 


■r 


aniM»ii      nuftmw't 


'  ■"iW 


I  IN   SQEFFIEU). 

)  of  a  very  great  revival 
Id,  however,  had  so  con- 
'  letters,  as  to  imply  a 
I  at  a  certain  time ;  had 
ed  on  the  strength  of  it, 
I  following  Sabbath.  It 
rsfield  friends ;  and  thoy 
giving  them  a  promise, 
ed  Italian  tour,  I  would 
id  to  let  me  go.  I  left 
have  a  lovely  people  in 
nen  of  the  right  stamp, 
9d,  and  generous  tone  to 
)y  continue  so ;  "  rooted 

tationed  in  Huddersfield 
Rev.  Jonathan  J.  Bates, 
was  received  by  these 
i  the  privilege  of  dining 
ring  my  stay ;  and  each 
banco  the  more  interesting 
Amen. 

'.  arrived  in  Sheffield,  and 
Mr.  John  Unwin,  to  the 
B  I  received  a  cheering 
remained.  About  sixty 
dready. 

ersfield  was  sorely  against 
me  there.  Perhaps  the 
was  in  Hull,  Mr.  Joseph 
came  with  a  special  and 
sfield.  My  nund  was  not 
he  more  averse  I  felt.    I 


DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINE  aLORT  IN  SnEFFTELD.    885 

went  up  to  my  room,  and  fell  down  before  God,  and  inquired. 
"  Shall  I  go,  ray  Lord  ?  "  The  following  was  spoken  to  my 
heart:  "Go,  nothing  doubtmg."  I  said,  "I  shall  go, 
then;"  and  so  the  matter  was  arranged.  I  afterwards 
found,  that  many  of  the  good  people  at  Huddersfield  had 
engaged  to  plead  with  God  for  the  success  of  these  gentle- 
men's mission.  The  meetings  we  did  hold  were  crowned 
with  rich  blesmngs  from  on  high ;  but  our  purposes  were 
broken  off. 

Of  his  first  labors  in  Sheffield  we  find  the  following 
account : 

We  arrived  in  Sheffidd  m  time  to  enjoy  an  excellent 
prayer  meeting  in  Carver  Street  chapel. 

I  rejoice  to  inform  you,  that  the  special  services  in  the 
Ebeneaer  Wesleyan  chapel  of  this  town—  Sheffield —- have 
been  remarkably  owned  of  God,  in  the  conversion  of  sinnew 
and  the  sanctification  of  believers. 

At  first,  my  congregations  were  small,  but  they  increased 
more  and  more,  and  so  cUd  the  number  of  the  saved. 

Unlike  most  places  I  have  visited,  where  I  have  been 
compelled  to  lay  close  siege  to  tdnners,  long  and  continued, 
before  they  yielded,  the  sinners  of  Sheffield  began  almost 
immediately  to  surrender;  for,  although  the  first  prayer 
meeting  on  Sabbath  afternoon,  May  12th,  resulted  in  the 
converaon  of  one  only,  twenty-nine  were  converted  at  mght 
after  sermon.  Conndering  the  nei^borhood  and  circum- 
stances of  the  society  at  Ebenezer,  I  felt  at  first  a  little 
surprised  that  the  Superintendent,  the  Rev.  J.  P.  Haswell, 
his  colleagues,  the  Rev.  J.  Stinson,  T,  IKckin,  and  B.  B 
Waddy,  with  the  leading  men  on  the  Circuit,  should  have 
fixed  upon  this  aa  the  most  suitable  place  to  commence 
special  efcrti  for  a  great  revival  —  a  decision,  in  which,  I 
83 


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llllJIIIINJIIIII  lHI«|il»WI.» 


mm 


886      dibpulTS  of  divinb  qlory  in  bukftield. 


believe  they  were  unanimous,     I  would  have  chosen  thn 
heart— Carver  Street  chapel— as  the  most  likely  place  to 
find  that  warmth  of  temperament,  and  energy  of  talent,  so 
necessary  "to  malie  a  beginning."     The  results,  ^i-vvor, 
proved  the  propriety  of  their  choice.     The  official  brethren 
at  Ebenezer  entered  into  the  work  with  their  whole  souls. 
The  members,  though  generally  poor  in  this  world,  but  rich 
M  faith,  assisted  us  in  mighty  prayer.    The  noise  was  some- 
times tremendous,  but  God  was  in  it.     No  attempts  were 
made  abruptly  to  put  it  down ;  but  by  prudent  management 
on  the  part  of  Mr.  Haswell,  when  present,  and  others  who 
had  charge  of  the  services  in  his  absence,  it  was  kept  within 
bounds,  and  under  a  scriptural  and  judicious  control,  and 
was  rendered  subservient  to  arouse  the  careless  and  prayer^ 
less  to  perceive  and  feel  that  religion  was  a  subject  worthy 
of  the  attention  and  oner^es  of  their  fellow-townsmen.   The 
influential  and  talented  leaders  of  Carver  Street,  instead  of 
standing  aloof  to  see  first  how  the  battle  would  go,  came 
up  nobly  to  the  help  of  the  Lord.    Reports  spread  like  fire 
through  all  parts  of  the  town ;  sinners  of  every  grade  of 
character  crowded  to  the  place.   Some  fled  in  terror,  looking 
unutterable  things — illustrating  vividly  that  passage  in  the 
book  of  Samuel :  "And  the  Philistines  were  afraid,  for  they 
said,  God  is  come  into  the  et^^     knd  they  swd,  Woe  unto 
ns !  for  there  hath  not  been  r-nh  a  s> ;  \   lieretofore  '    Every 
meeting  brought  more  an*  to^   her.    The  noise  was 

heard  afar :  "  And  when  the  Philistines  heard  the  noise  of 
the  shout,  they  said,  What  meaneth  the  noise  of  this  great 
Bhnut  ?  for,  when  the  ark  of  the  covenant  of  the  Lord  came 
i  « the  camp,  all  I^^rael  shouted  with  a  great  shout,  bo  that 
tiie  earth  rang  again."    1  Sam.  iv. 

Some  people  wei«  "  offended  "  at  the  tremendous  "  amens  '* 
ind  BhontB  of  victoiy  which  prevuled  on  every  udo.    But 


.'  L  IMllM 


■MmuPvI 


IN  SUKrTIELD. 

would  havo  chosen  tin 
iho  most  likely  place  to 
md  energy  of  talent,  so 
The  results,  lu-'viver, 
.  The  official  brethren 
:  'with  their  whole  souls. 
r  in  this  vrorld,  but  rich 
'.  The  noise  was  some- 
it.  No  attempts  were 
by  prudent  management 
present,  and  others  who 
ience,  it  was  kept  within 
i  judicious  control,  and 
the  careless  and  prayer- 
on  was  a  subject  worthy 
r  fellow-townsmen.  The 
)arver  Street,  instead  of 

0  batde  would  go,  came 
Reports  spread  like  fire 
mers  of  every  grade  of 
me  fled  in  terror,  looking 
ridly  that  passage  in  the 
ines  were  aJFraid,  for  they 
<ij\i  they  swd.  Woe  unto 
ijag  beretofora  '  livery 
oj,:  r,her.  The  noise  was 
itines  heard  the  nobe  of 

1  the  noise  of  this  great 
renant  of  the  Lord  came 
th  a  great  shout,  so  that 

bhe  tremendous  "  amens  ** 
led  on  every  «de.    But 


MSPLAYS  OF  DIVINB  GLORY  IN  SHEFFIEID. 


887 


nmm^crr^vm^lMwa 


mh  were  exhorted  to  patience,  and  to  beware  of  temptation 
—to  remember  also,  that  it  was  imiiossible,  uulcs^i  the  hiuga 
of  the  eealous  people  were  as  substantial  as  leather,  or  aa 
as  Cicero  expressed  it,  their  bodies  wore  "chiselled  out  ot 
the  rock,  or  hewn  out  of  the  oak;"  or  their  voices  wore 
endowed  with  the  unchangoabilily  of  the  trumpet,  that  they 
could  stand,  for  any  considerable  length  of  time,  efforts  so 
violent.    The  prediction  proved  too  true.    Toward  the  latter 
part  of  the  second  week,  they  began  to  flag;  and  there 
were  evident  marks  of  a  humiliating  and  rapid  tendency  to 
the  opposite  extreme.      Some  had  quite  exliausted  their 
strength,  others  had  broken  their  voices;    the  "amens 
were  "  few  and  far  between."     This  was  the  reaction  some 
of  us  anticipated.    Any  one,  not  acquainted  with  the  secret 
power  to  which  we  owed  our  success,  during  the  tempest  of 
human  feeling- the  constraining  and  overpowering   mflu- 
ences  of  the  Holy  Ghost -would  have  said,  "The  revival 
is  at  an  end-the  sparks  of  their  own  kindUng  are  quite 
gone  out-it  is  likely  they  wiU  close  the  doors  now  wid 
recruit  ere  they  can  muster  another  such  exhibition.      But 
the  work  of  God,  which  is  not  dependent  upon  much  noise 
or  Uttle,  but  upon  an  influence  from  heaven,  advanced  with- 
out a  pause.    The  hearts  of  the  people  were  right  with  God. 
Wickedness  was  not  m  our  camp,  nor  division  of  feeling  or 
opinion.    Many  seemed,  in  their  looks,  to  say :  «  Our  hearts 
are  with  you,  but  we  are  weak ;  our  strength  is  gone ;  we 
can  do  nothing  but  exercise  faith,  and  pray  in  sUence ;  go  on, 
the  Lord  of  hosts  is  with  you,  the  God  of  Jacob  is  our  refuge ! 

In  the  course  of  a  week  or  so,  they  regained  theur  energy, 
and  were  as  ardent  and  zealous  as  ever;  but,  leammg 
^dom  from  the  tlungu  they  had  suffered,  they  now  pru 
dently    "husbanded  their  strength,"    appropnatmg  theur 
H  aniens,"  "  hallelujahs,"  &c.,  to  those  points  of  "  onset  or 


888        DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINB  GLORY  IN  SHBF?I«U). 

victory,"  where  they  coold  be  used  to  the  greatest  advantage 
and  effect.     Their  zeal  being  now  according  to  knowledge, 
and  guided  by  it,  burned  with  a  bright,  steady,  and  ever- 
during  flame  — not  a  blaze  one  night  and  extinguished  the 
next,  fitful  and  uncertain  as  the  lightnmg  in  the  evening 
cloud ;  but  it  kindled  and  ascended  like  the  mormng  sun, 
advancing  upward  till  it  attained  its  meridian  glory:  as  the 
sun,  in  the  days  of  Joshua,  it  tarried  over  our  Gibeon,  "  in 
the  mi  1st  of  heaven,  and  hasted  not  to  go  down;"  I  shall 
not  say,  "  for  the^  space  of  a  whole  day,"  or  even  during 
the  remainder  of  the  services  in  Ebenezer  chapel,  but  it  also 
extends,  thus  far,  in  Carver  Street,  until  the  Lord  has 
avenged  himself  on  his  enenues  and  ours,  gloriously.   Many 
were  the  slain  and  healed  of  the  Lord  at  Ebenezer.    The 
meeting  for  tho  new  converts,  for  the  wounded  also,  and 
the  slain,  was  a  season  never  to  be  forgotten.   The  Ebenezer 
chapel  was  a  symbolical  Ebenezer  to  the  vast  assemblage 
of  people  on  the  night  in  question.    By  many  tears  and 
various  expreswons  of  joy,  they  seemed  to  say,  almost 
umversally,  "  This  is  our  Ebenezer,  for  hitherto  hath  God 

helped  us." 

Perhaps  the  following  report,  or  table,  of  the  progress  of 
the  revival,  which  was  handed  to  me,  at  the  close  of  the 
services  in  the  above  chapel,  by  the  secretary,  Mr.  John 
Jepson,  will  aflbrd  you  as  good  a  view  of  the  steady  progress 
of  this  great  work  of  God,  as  any  other  medium  I  could 
adopt : — 

"Dear  Sir — The  following  is  a  faithful  report  of  the 

numbers  saved  in  Ebenezer  chapel,  from  the  12th  of  May 

to  the  Si*,  of  June,  twenty-one  days  inclusive.    In  Jesus, 

affecticaately  yours, 

"John  Jbpson." 


r  IN  SHEF?IIU>. 

to  the  greatest  advantage 
according  to  knowledge, 
bright,  steady,  and  ever- 
;ht  and  extinguished  the 
lightning  in  the  evening 
ed  like  the  morning  sun, 
s  meridian  glory :  as  the 
jd  over  our  Giheon,  "  in 
ot  to  go  down;"  I  shall 
le  day,"  or  even  during 
>enezer  chapel,  but  it  also 
eet,  until  the  Lord  has 
d  ours,  gloriously.   Many 
Lord  at  Ebenezer.    The 
r  the  wounded  also,  and 
forgotten.   The  Ebenezer 
'  to  the  vast  assemblage 
)n.    By  many  tears  and 
seemed  to  say,  almost 
r,  for  hitherto  hath  God 

•  table,  of  the  progress  of 
)  me,  at  the  close  of  the 
the  secretary,  Mr.  John 
iew  of  the  steady  progress 
y  other  medium  I  could 


s  a  ffuthful  report  of  the 
ul,  from  the  12th  of  May 
ays  inclusive.    In  Jesus, 

"John  Jepson." 


DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINB  GLORY  IN  SHEFFIELD. 
Sheffield,  Ebenezer  Cuapei,,  Mat  12,  to  June  3,  1844. 


389 


Snndny, 

MondAy 

Tuesday, 

Wednesday, 

Thursday, 

Friday, 

Saturday, 


May  12. 

»•  18. 

"  14. 

"  16. 

"  16. 

••  17. 

"  18. 


Sunday,  May  19. 
Monday,  "     20. 

Tuesday,  "     21- 

Wednesday,  "  22. 
Thursday,  "  28. 
Friday,  "     24- 


Sunday, 

Monday, 

Tuesday, 

Wednesday, 

Thursday, 

Friday, 


May  28. 

"  27. 
"  28. 
"  29. 
••  80. 
«     81. 


Sunday,        Jnne  2. 
Monday,  "      »• 


Grand  Total*, 


Jnatl&ed 

out  of  the 

World. 

81 

21 

17 
9 
8 
8 


_94 

42 

22 

16 

7 

6 

8 

"94 

24 
6 

18 
8 

10 
1 

62 

63 
11 

~T8 
828 


Jostifled 

In 
Society. 

12 

6 

8 
11 

9 

6 


BlesalnK 
of  SancU' 
flcstlOD. 

13 
9 
6 
4 

28 


Society  Band*. 


62 

16 
7 
9 
6 
1 
0 

88 

26 
8 

10 
6 
8 
4 

~67 

12 

4 

~16 
168 


60 

19 

14 

9 

8 

4 
26 

"74 

12 
17 
11 
22 
8 
17 

82 


18 

46 

169 


ToUIl. 

43 
40 
84 
26 
21 
42 


206 

77 
18 
88 
16 
10 
88 

206 

G2 
26 
84 
86 
21 
23 

201 

107 
38 

136 


The  scene  of  my  labors  at  present  is  Carver  Street  chapeV 
The  work  of  God  is  advancmg  with  increased  rapidity  and 
TK)wer     The  first  Sabbath  we  spent  in  this  place  of  worship, 
Ze  hundred  and  sixty-seven  persons  P;f«»^'l^  salvation 
Since  then  hundreds  have  been  saved.    The  work  is  mdeed 
glorious,  beyond  any  thing  I  have  ever  seen  before  in  the 
same  space  of  time.   All  seriously  disposed  persons,  so  far  aj 
I  have  learned,  are  led  to  regard  it  as  an  extraordm^  woA 
of  God.    I  am  happy  to  inform  you  I  received  a  letter  from 
88* 


illi.»iiW(iii'i  I    -• 


890        DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINB  QLORT  IN  SHBWIBIiD. 

Bishop  HeddJBg.  It  is  most  affectionate :  all,  in  fiwjt,  and 
more  than  I  could  have  expected.  *  *  •  So  far  from  urging 
my  return,  he  expresses  a  cordial  approbation  of  my  labors 
and  success  in  winmng  souls  to  Christ,  and  prays  that  God 
may  continue  to  bless  me  wherever  I  may  labor.  He  says 
tiie  Conference  will  gladly  receive  me  on  my  return,  with 
this  proviso,  that  I  bring  good  testimonials  back  with  me 
of  my  good  conduct  during  my  sojourn  in  Europe ;  closing 
with  the  assurance,  that  thousands  are  ready,  with  joy,  to 
welcome  my  return  to  the  American  shores,  to  recommence 
my  ministerial  labors  in  that  country. 

"  0,  to  grace  how  graat  a  debtor, 
Dally  I'm  conttrained  to  be  I " 

Here  follows  a  communication  sent  to  Mr.  Caughey  at 
Sheffield,  from  one  of  the  scenes  of  his  previous  efforte  in 
Hull.  We  insert  it  to  show  the  reader  how  hiffi  an  estimate 
the  official  members  at  Hull  placed  on  his  precious  labors 
for  souls. 

«4,  Parliament  Strbbt,  Htjll,  Jonb  26, 1844. 

«  BlV.  AND  DBAR  SiR, 

"We  have  much  pleasure  in  transnutting  to  you  the 
following  extract  from  the  Mmutes  of  the  Quarterly  Meetmg 
of  the  Hull  East  Circuit,  held  on  the  24th  instant. 

«We  remwn,  reverend  and  dear  Kr,  your  faithful  and 

obedient  servants,  ^    nt     •* 

« W.  CowLBT,  I    Circmt 

Edward  Rigqall,  \  Stewards. 

"  On  the  motion  of  Mr.  Biggall,  seconded  by  Mr.-  Reld, 
H  was  resolved  unanimously,  — 

"That  tWs  meeting,  from  the  numerical  and  financial 
statements  laid  before  it  by  tiie  Stewards,  feels  called  upon 
to  record  its  devout  gratitude  to  Ahm^ty  God,  for  his 


IIHUBPI 


IN  SHBVnBLD. 


onate :  all,  in  fact,  and 
•  •  So  far  from  urging 
pprobation  of  my  labors 
at,  and  prays  that  God 
I  may  labor.  He  says 
me  on  my  return,  with 
imomals  back  with  me 
am  in  Europe;  closing 
are  ready,  with  joy,  to 
I  shores,  to  recommence 

I  debtor, 
»bel" 

lent  to  Mr.  Canghey  at 
f  lus  previous  efforts  in 
ier  how  lu^  an  estimate 
d  on  his  precious  labors 

ItJLL,  JoOT  26, 1844. 

fcransnutting  to  yon  the 
)f  the  Quarterly  Meeting 
le  24th  instant, 
r  ^,  your  futhful  and 


BlOQALL. 


J 


Circuit 
Stewards. 


,  seconded  by  Mr.-  Reld, 

numerical  and  financial 

)wards,  feels  called  upon 

Ahnighty  God,  for  his 


DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINK  GLORY  Ui  3HBITIELD.         891 

rf>undant  blessing  upon  :he  special  sendees  lately  held  ;^ 
also  its  high  sense  of  the  consistent  and  exemplary  Chnstian 
tn^i  of  the  Rev.  Jimes  Caughey,  of  ^e  Metho^ 
Episcopal  Church  in  America,  during  his  residence  m  tbs 
CircuitTas  well  as  of  his  untiring  ministerial  labors,  and  ^e 
efficient  assistance  rendered  by  him  to  the  mmisters  of  the 
Circmt  during  those  services."  _i,o,v» 

I  had  the  pleasure,  a  few  days  ago,  of  takmg  dimier  here 
ynih  Dr.  Alder,  now  one  of  the  general  Wesleyan  Missionary 
Secretaries.    He  manifested  a  Uvely  and  cordial  mterest  m 
the  revival;  and,  in  prayer,  aromid  the  family  altar,  he 
proved  how  sincere  and  ardent  was  his  interest,  by  praymg 
most  fervently  and  affectionately  for  your  correspondent. 
Mrs.  Alder,  an  American  lady  by  birth,  you  will  remember 
and  Miss  Alder,  are  here  at  present,  ""d^JJ^^^  "!  ^ 
wonderful  triumph  of  the  gospel  of  God.    The  doctor  is  out 
upon  a  tour  of  nussionary  visitation  to  U»  churches,  and 
intends  to  return  by  the  way  of  Sheffield. 

In  a  letter  bearing  date  of  July  30,  1844,  he  thus 
continues  his  sketehes  of  the  work  in  Sheffield. 

Since  the  date  of  my  last,  the  revival  has  advanced  with 
amazing  majesty  and  power.    The  scenes  have  been  such  as 

^ieisily  described.  I -P«-*  ^^T  **^' *S^! 
6th  instant,  in  Carver  Street  chapel.  The  followmg  extract 
from  a  table,  sent  me  by  one  of  the  secretaries  may  »ve 
you  some  idea  of  the  grand  and  extensive  charMter  of  the 
work;  so  fer,  at  least,  as  numbers  are  concerned.  But  to 
have  a  just  view,  or  a  proper  conception  of  the  wonderfid 
effects  of  truth  upon  the  mass  of  mind  therem  recorded,  and 
«the  differences  of  maiufestation,"  m  the  hour  of  sorrow 
and  distress;  the  prayers,  tears,  and  long  and  bitter  cnej 
for  mercy,  and  the  joyful  and  triumphant  exchimations  of 


392        DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINB  OLOHT  IN  SHEFZIELD. 

new-born  souls,  or  purified  believers,  in  the  glad  Loor  of 
salvation,  would  require  that  you  should  have  been  "in  the 
nudst  of  us."  Never  have  I  beheld  any  thing  equal  to  it. 
0,  it  was  "  sublimely  grand ! "  —  grand  in  its  cause,  grand 
in  the  effects,  grand  in  results,  and  grand  beyond  all  human 
ima^nings  when  taken  in  connection  ydth  the  grandeur  of  a 
coming  eternity !    But  here  is  the  extract : 

"  The  services  were  continued  in  Carver  Street  chapel 
from  June  4th  to  July  6th;  twenty-eight  days  inclusive. 
From  the  world,  660;  appointed  to  meet  in  class,  thus: 
West  Circuit,  896;  East  Circuit,  145;  not  appointed  to 
classes,  66;  the  remainder  were  from  distant  and  other 
churches.  MemlJers  justified,— West  Circuit,  83;  East 
Circuit,  63 ;  other  Circuits  and  churches,  29.  Members 
sanctified,— West  Circuit,  181;  East  Circmt,  98;  other 
churches,  66.  Total  justified,  825;  sanctified,  335.  Total, 
eleven  hundred  and  wAj." 

I  commenced  my  labors  on  the  East  Circmt,  on  the 
following  Sabbath,  in  Brunswick  chapel.  The  ministers  on 
this  Circmt  are,  the  Rev.  Alexander  Bell,  Superintendent; 
the  Rev.  John  Burton,  the  Rev.  William  B.  Stephenson, 
and  the  Rev.  James  Carr.  On  the  morning  of  the  11th 
inst.,  one  of  the  persons  recorded  in  the  above  table,  a 
female,  who  was  a  backsUder,  called  upon  me,  in  company 
with  another.  So  great  had  been  her  distress,  she  could 
neither  eat  nor  sleep.  She  had  not,  it  seems,  fallen  firom 
God  at  once,  by  any  heinous  sin,  but  declined  gradually,  till 
she  lost  the  life  of  God  totally  from  her  soul ;  and  now, 
awakened  to  a  sense  of  her  sad  condition,  she  was  inconso- 
lable. We  joined  in  prayer,  but  the  Lord  suffered  her  to 
leave  the  house  without  any  thing  more  than  a  cheering  ray 
of  hope  that  he  would  not  permit  her  to  die  an  alien  to  God. 
A  few  minutes  after,  when  walking  homeward  along  the 


"vmttmmmmi 


-=■■*»«  >M!lM'""'"'' 


[  8HEFSIEU). 

in  the  glad  hoar  ol 
I  have  been  "  in  tihe 
ay  thing  equal  to  it. 
1  in  its  cause,  grand 
ad  beyond  all  human 
ith  the  grandeur  of  a 
act: 

])arver  Street  chapel 
eight  days  inclusive, 
meet  in  class,  thus : 
15 ;  not  appointed  to 
m  distant  and  other 
It  Circuit,  83;  East 
ches,  29.  Members 
t  Circuit,  98;  other 
uictified,  835.    Total, 

Bast  Circmt,  on  the 
el.  The  ministers  on 
Bell,  Superintendent; 
lUam  B.  Stephenson, 
morning  of  the  11th 
a  the  above  table,  a 
upon  me,  in  company 
ter  distress,  she  could 
it  seems,  fallen  firom 
ieclined  gradually,  till 
I  her  soul ;  and  nov> 
tion,  she  was  inconso- 
i  Lord  suffered  her  to 
re  than  a  cheering  ray 
to  die  an  alien  to  Gktd. 
homeward  along  the 


DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINB  QLOBT  IN  BHETFIELD. 


89! 


•*•>" 


street,  with  a  feeble  and  faltering  step,  the  Lord  met  her, 
and  said  to  her  heart,  "Thou  art  mine!"  Sorrow  was 
exchanged  for  joy  in  a  moment.  The  Saviour  conferred 
«« beauty  for  ashes ; "  and  she  pursued  her  way  with  a  glad 
heart  and  free,  rejoicmg  with  joy  unspeakable  and  full  of 
glory.  I  saw  her  in  the  chapel  a  few  nights  afterwards. 
How  marked  the  change  in  the  woman's  countenance !  The 
grief  and  despair  which,  at  the  time  I  first  saw  her,  rendered 
her  face  the  picture  of  agony  and  desolation,  were  all  gone, 
and  now,  calm,  serene  joy  beamed  out  upon  every  lineament 
of  it.  May  she  ever  stand  fast  in  that  liberty  wherewith 
Christ  has  made  her  free !    Amen ! 

A  respectable  looking  young  man  called  upon  me  a  few 
days  ago.    "  I  walked  down  to  Ebenezer,"  said  he,  "  one 
evening,  and  heard  you  preach,  but  I  got  no  good— I  was 
perfectly  justed— I  wanted  smooth  things,  and  was  dis- 
appointed.    I  went  agwn,  to  hear  you,  and  was  delighted ; 
but  still  remwned  undecided  upon  the  great  question  of  my 
salvation.    One  night  I  had  a  dream.    I  was  in  a  certain 
place.    An  enormous  serpent  moved  towards  me.   Its  object 
seemed  to  be,  first  to  coil  itself  around  me  and  then  to  sting 
me  to  deatii.    My  struggles  against  its  motions  were  despe- 
rate.   Finally  it  succeeded  to  entangle  me  in  its  folds,  and 
then  it  stung  me,  after  which  I  escaped.    I  thought  in  my 
dream,  I  would  return  and  destroy  the  serpent;  but  when  I 
entered  the  place,  a  powerful  man  stood  there.    He  seiaed 
the  serpent,  held  it  up  in  his  hand,  and  dashed  its  head  upon 
the  ground  with  such  force  that  it  died,  and  then  trampled 
it  in  triumph.    I  awoke  in  a  great  state  of  excitement.    It , 
was  then  impressed  upon  my  mind,  'The  serpent  is  the  ; 
devil ;  he  has  been  endeavoring  to  destroy  your  soul,  but 
you  shall  yet  conquer ;  nevertheless,  not  in  your  5wn  strength, 
but  bv  anotiier.'    The  following  evening  T   ^ent  down  to 


894        DISPLAYS  OF  DIYIKB  GLORY  IN  SHEFFIELD 


Etonezer.  Tour  text  was,  *  Awake,  thou  that  sleepcst,  and 
arise  from  the  dead,  and  Christ  shall  give  thee  light.'  During 
the  sermon,  you  said,  God  sometimes  spoke  to  sinners  in 
dreams.  You  read  a  striking  passage  in  the  Book  of  Job, 
and  said.  There  is  a  man  among  you  who  had  a  remarkable 
dream  last  night.  That  dream  was  a  warning  from  God  — 
beware  how  you  take  it — reject  it  not ;  the  design  of  it  is 
to  keep  your  soul  back  from  the  pit,  and  your  life  from 
perishing  by  the  sword  of  the  Lord.  My  feelings,  during 
this  appeal,  were  in  a  sort  of  indescribable  amaze.  I  knew 
the  whole  was  for  me  —  from  God  himself."  The  person  in 
question  obttuned  salvation  shortly  after.  Hallelujah !  The 
word  of  God  is  quick  and  powerful,  searching  the  inmost  of 
the  soul,  and  reveals  secret  things. 

There  have  been  several  cases  of  restitution  lately.  Among 
the  many  who  have  had  money  restored  them,  is  an  infidel. 
Upon  pocketing  the  cash,  he  said  with  a  sort  of  a  "compla- 
cent smile,"  such  as  he  had  not  accorded  to  religion  for  a 
great  while,  "  Well,  if  Christianity  can  make  a  thief  deliver 
up  my  money,  there  must,  after  all,  be  something  good  in  it. 
I  will  go  and  hear  for  myself."  Another  person,  a  few  days 
since,  made  restitution  to  an  innkeeper.  The  letter  in  which 
the  money  was  enclosed,  concluded  with  these  expressivo 
words:  "A  Christian  now,  but  once  a  thief." 

The  confessions  of  some  of  these  awakened  sinners,  while 
pleading  for  mercy  at  the  commumon-rail,  are  sometimes 
most  affecting.  The  other  night,  an  old  sinner  with  his 
wife,  were  kneeling  among  the  penitents.  His  agony  was 
very  great.  One  of  the  leaders  overheard  him  pray  thus : 
"  0  Lord,  I  never  offered  up  one  prayer  for  thirty  years 
About  ux  months  ago  my  son  was  converted  ;  since  then  I 
have  been  trying  to  alter  my  course  of  life.  But  I  have 
been  a  tricked  sinner;  I  have  committed  all  sorts  of  wicked- 


MiiiiliiHi 


HMPawiw 


■rsijwi 


PPfSSSPf^ 


.--  f.'l.'^J^ 


IN  SHEFHELD 

thou  that  sleepent,  and 
ive  thee  light.'  During 
!S  spoke  to  sinners  in 
i  in  the  Book  of  Job, 
who  had  a  remarkable 
&  warning  from  God  — 
ot ;  the  design  of  it  is 
it,  and  your  life  from 
My  feelings,  during 
ibable  amaze.  I  knew 
Qself."  The  person  in 
er.  Hallelujah!  The 
earching  the  inmost  of 

tituiion  lately.  Among 
'ed  them,  is  an  infidel. 
I  a  sort  of  a  "  compla- 
orded  to  religion  for  a 
&n  make  a  thief  deliver 
e  something  good  in  it. 
iher  person,  a  few  days 
T.  The  letter  in  which 
with  these  expressivo 
a  thief." 

wakened  sinners,  while 
ion-rail,  are  sometimes 
in  old  sinner  with  his 
tents.  His  agony  was 
irheard  him  pray  thus : 
>rayer  for  thirty  years 
onverted  ;  since  then  1 
se  of  life.  But  I  have 
:ted  all  sorts  of  wicked- 


IM'LVH. 'aiiiMi 


DIS-'LATS  or  WVINB  GLOET  IN  SHEFFIELD. 


80ft 


ncss.    0  Lord,  canst  thou  have  m.rcy  upon  8uch  a  smner 
as  me  ?    Thou  knowest  what  a  rascal  I  have  boon !     What 
an  oud  Sabbath-breaker!    0  Lord,  have  mercy  en  me! 
On  being  informed  that  his  wife  had  obtamed  m.rcy  from 
Heaven,  he  exclaimed :  «  0  Lord !  must  I  go  to  beU  be  me 
,enf"*    The  agony  into  which  he  immediately  entered, 
proved  that  he  was  determined  to  accompany  his  old  woman 
to  a  better  region.    At  length,  with  Heaven  beammg  m  his 
face,  he  cried  out,  «0!  I  feel  something  come  mto  my 
heart.    I  feel  that  the  Lord  has  sent  a  great  light  mto  my 
poor  dark  soul.    The  Lord  has  removed  my  load ;  he  has 
Trdoned  all  my  sins  for  Christ's  sake.     What  a  merey 
that  the  Lord  should  have  mercy  upon  such  an  oud  feller 

"^  The  Lord  has  enabled  me,  of  late,  to  describe  particdar 
characters,  during  the  course  of  my  sermons,  with  wonderful, 
and,  in  some  cases,  with  what  appeared  miraeulous  accuracy. 
Many  have  been  strangely  wrought  upon,  whUe  I  have  been 
relating  some  of  the  most  secret  parts  of  their  character  and 
doings     Although  some  of  the  congregation  are  frequent^ 
subjected  to  various  charges  from  tiie  convicted  parties,  who 
insdt  that  "such  and  such  a  one"  has  been  telhng  the 
preaeher  aU  about  them,  yet  the  results  are  often  astomsh- 
L     The  other  night,  while  preaching,  a  certam  chMWster 
came  up  before  me  with  this  written  upon  him:  A  Eoman 
CaihoUc  in  the- gaUefy!     The  Lord  helped  me.     Poor 
fellow;  while  scramblmg  for  his  hat,  m  order  to  make  wi 
escape  from  the  searching  truth  of  God,  he  heard  words 
^he^by  he  might  be  saved.    Some  who  knew  him  were 
astonished;  but  he  blamed  them,  and  complamed  bittei^ 
tiiat  they  had  been  in  commumcation  with  me ;  which,  <tf 

•  foAOAn  dialect  for  "by  myMlt"  ^ 


898      DispLATS  or  mvink  qlory  in  BHuraraLD. 
course,  they  positively  denied.    The  results  I  have  not  yet 

On  the  3d  of  July  I  deUvered  a  temperance  lecture  in  Ae 
Primitive  Methodist  chapel.    There  were  many  intelUgent 
and  good  people  present,  but  a  larger  number  of  «  ti»e  lowest 
of  the  low."    The  crowd  was  oppressive,  owing  m  part  to 
the  smallness  of  the  chapel.    Some  of  the  cluldren  of  the 
devU  seemed  to  have  no  patience  with  each  other.     Each 
man,  aye  and  woman  too,  seemed  as  if  determined  "  to  maan- 
tain  a  footing."    Elbows  and  tongues  were  caUed  mto  action, 
^th  tremendous  energy -I  speak  now  of  the  crowds  on 
the  gallery  stairs,  and  the  masses  by  the  doors—the  rest 
of  the  audience  were  perfectly  wefl-behaved.     Some  en- 
deavoredto  reconcUe  the  conflicting  parties,  but  m  vam; 
some  poor  women  were  pressed  almost  out  of  life  ;  and  others, 
with  their  gruff  voices,  and  powerful  elbows,  were  endeavor 
ing  to  defend  them ;  wWle  others  were  determined  to  get  m, 
if  they  should  climb  over  the  "heads  and  shouldew    of  the 
mass.    Opposition  to  the  cause  of  temperance  did  not  pre- 
vail, I  believe,  in  a  singlebreast.    But  all  were  resolved  upon 
hearing  the  lecture,-and  all  could  not  be  admitted, --and 
it  was  every  man  for  himself.    I  could  not  but  love  the  ex- 
cited  throng,  although  tiiey  gave  me  considerable  uneasiness. 
Fmding  the  voice  of  authority  as  inefficient  as  Ihe  chains 
of  Xenes  to  bmd  the  waves  of  the  Hellespont,  I  tned  chains 
of  another  Knd.    The  ancient  painters,  you  my  remember, 
were  ambitious  to  describe  the  eloquence  of  Hercules  Celti- 
cus,  but,  unfortunately,  most  of  them  found  that  the  elo- 
quence of  attitude,  gesture,  and  expression  of  comitenance, 
iere  much  more  eaa'dy  described  upon  canvass  than  eloquence 
m  language.    One  of  them,  however,  «  detemumng  not  to 
be  outdone,"  represented  it  by  an  immense  number  of  golden 
chains  coming  out  of  the  mouth  of  the  orator,  and  reachmg 


.uriiiiiaiiM 


fH  BHBTVIBLD. 

esulta  I  have  not  yet 

perance  lecture  in  the 
trere  many  intelligent 
number  of  "  the  lowest 
iive,  owing  in  part  to 
of  the  children  of  the 
h  each  other.     Each 
r  determined  "  to  main- 
were  called  into  action, 
now  of  the  crowds  on 
r  the  doors — the  rest 
[-behaved.     Some  en- 
;  parties, but  in  vain; 
out  of  life;  and  others, 
elbows,  were  endeavor- 
■Q  determined  to  get  in, 
;  and  shoulders"  of  the 
temperance  did  not  pre- 
it  all  were  resolved  upon 
not  be  adtmtted,  —  and 
Id  not  but  love  the  ex- 
considerable  uneasiness, 
nofficient  as  the  chains 
lellespont,  I  tried  chwns 
bers,  you  may  remember, 
lence  of  Hercules  Celti- 
em  found  that  the  elo- 
pression  of  conntenance, 
n  canvass  than  eloquence 
>r,  "  determining  not  to 
amense  number  of  golden 
the  orator,  and  reaching 


DISPLAYS  OP  DIVINE  GLORY  IN  BUCTPIELD-         897 

to  the  ears  of  great  multitudes.  A  capital  idea !  Althoug^ 
Lnoiled  Ilia  picture,  it  originated  an  aphorism, -Attention 
l£edby'eloquence;  which  "  holds  good  "  to  the  present 
Z  If  eloquence  happened  to  be  absent  on  tiie  evemngm 
X"  akIment  and  baukestness,  her  .representati^re^ 
presided  with  considerable  effect.  SUence  siff^ah^^^  at^n- 
L  chained;  but  the  mighty  work  waa  to  keep  i  thus-  ihe 
Tl\  in  the  case  of  Job,  either  would  not,  or  could  not,  afflict 
t^ii^ltt^n^e     Some  think  thearch  fiend  left  thatmem^ 

L ::;  utrl^Xt  he  might  employ  it  in  bitter  complamta 
against  providence,  or  to  curse  God.  j  p,«„ -t.    • 

^he  moment  I  paused,  the  chains  were  snapped  from  at- 
tention,  and  the  « Iruly  member,"  in  many  a  head  WM  wt 
Tmotlon,  uttering  a  series  of  ejaculations   -^^^o-^^' 
ejulations,  remonstrances,  and  interjections!     So,  to  keep 
£  tonnes  qmet,  mine  had  to  attempt  something  bke  pe^ 
pTtLmSon;  and  it  is  due  to  say,  after  t^« /«*  ^^V' 
Steen  minutes  of  the  lectin^  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
^bles  now  and  again,  we  enjoyed  a  c^  ^T^^^^, 
STto  the  speaker,  as  weU  as  to  tee-totahsm.    I  ^^^fj^ 
W  Baconrwho  represents  the  influence  of  science  over 
^et^::of  men,  as'bearing some  resemblanceto  the^^-^ 
of  the  harp  of  Orpheus  over  beasts  and  birds-they  .01 
trothe^several  appetites,  some  for  prey,  some  for  game, 
Srsfor  quarrel,  a^d  stood  -iably  together,  l^temng  to 
the  airs  and  sweet  accords  of  tiie  wonderful  harp.     No 
Ler  however,  had  the  sounds  ceased,  or  were  drowned  by 
ri  louder  noise,  tiian  every  beast  returned  to  his  own  na. 
tT    S  noble  writer  considers  tiie  fable  a  fine  illustration 
Tthe  power  of  tnitii  over  mind.     ^aturaUy  our  m.  is 
m  of  savage  and  unreclaimed  desires,  of  profit  of  lust,  of 
r^ete^d,  so  long  as  men  are  brought  together  by  pre- 
::;Z^t^^f^l,  --tly  touched  by  eloquence  and 


898        DISPIiATS  OF  DIVIKB  QLORT  IN  SHEFFIBLD. 

persuasion  of  books,  sermons,  and  harangues,  so  long  is  the 
peace  of  society  maintained ;  but  if  these  instruments  of 
human  suasion  become  silent,  or  if  sedition  and  tumult  render 
Aieir  voice  inaudible,  all  things  dissolve  mto  anarchy  and 
confusion.  CertMnly,  leaving  eloquence  out  of  the  question, 
my  harangue  had  this  influence  upon  the  agitated  mass  ;  and, 
when  they  were  elbowing  each  other,  and  exchanging  glances 
their  tongues  could  not  speak,  they  frequently  accorded  a 
truce  to  hostilities,  and  united  m  giving  the  lecturer  their  ap- 
proval, in  the  usual  method  of  clapping  and  stamping. 

At  the  close  of  Ae  meeting,  about  thieo  hundred  persons 
came  forward,  and  testified  in  the  most  convincing  way  that 
circumstances  would  admit,  that  they  understood  and  appre- 
ciated the  arguments  of  the  stranger,  by  muting  themselves 
•mth  the  Sheffield  Total  Abstinence  Society ;  that  is,  totally 
renouncing  the  use  of  every  beverage  employed  by  the  devil 
and  selfish  and  wicked  men  to  make  drunkards.    "  Is  there 
a  dealer  in  intoricating  drinhs,"  swd  one,  '"  that  would  be 
willing  to  read  the  history  of  lus  sales  ?    Such  a  history 
would  pierce  lus  soul,  and  terrify  bis  ima^nation  with  images 
the  most  dark  and  horrible.    The  moral  infection  that  has 
been  engendered  by  lus  sales  alone,  would  darken  the  air 
around  him."    I  would  add,  could  those  Christian  gentle- 
men, who  indulge  in  wine,  ale,  and  porter,  to  speak  of  noth 
ing  stronger,  read  the  history  of  their  example,  during  the 
last  ten  or  fifteen  years  "of  their  practice,"  perhaps  "an 
imagery  "  might  arise  that  would  go  far  to  pain  their  souls 
also,  and  terrify  their  ima^aiion.    It  is  difficult,  under  cer- 
tain circumstances,  to  avoid  reflections  of  this  kind.    At  the 
table  of  hospitality  rits  the  nunister  of  Christ,  —  the  pat- 
ron, in  word  and  deed,   of   ike  wine-bottle  and  alo-jug. 
Around  that  man  are  seated  the  youthful  branches  of  an  in- 
teresting fanuly,  who  accord  to  his  mdulgence  a  ready  and 


nEFFIELD. 

ics,  SO  long  is  the 
ISO  instruments  of 
and  tumult  render 
into  anarchy  and 
mt  of  the  question, 
^tated  mass ;  and, 
txchanging  glances 
uontly  accorded  a 
3  lecturer  their  ap- 
nd  stamping. 

0  hundred  persons 
onvincing  way  that 
erstood  and  appre- 
uniting  themselves 
ity ;  that  is,  totally 
aloyed  by  the  devil 
tarda.  "Is  there 
e,  ^'  that  would  be 
i  Such  a  history 
Ration  with  images 

infection  that  has 
lid  darken  the  air 
i  Christian  gentie- 
r,  to  speak  of  noth 
cample,  during  the 
ice,"  perhaps  "an 
r  to  pain  their  souls 
difficult,  under  cer- 
this  kind.  At  tho 
Christ, — the  pat- 
•hottie  and  ale-jug. 

1  branches  of  an  in- 
^nce  a  ready  and 


"$<" 


DISPIiAYS  OF  DIVINE  OLORl   IN  SHEFFIELD. 


899 


willing  imitation.  Tlie  father  and  mother  of  that  family  are 
little  aware,  how,  by  such  a  clerical  example,  they  are  haa- 
arding  the  well-being  of  their  children  for  this  world  and  tho 
next.  No  man  that  has  seen  much  of  the  world,  and  the 
miseries  arismg  from  these  fascinating  and  dangerous  drinks, 
can  look  upon  such  a  scene  without  a  secret  alarm.  Alas !  I 
have  thought,  when  contemplating  such  a  scene,  could  this 
good  man  read  the  future  history  of  all  these  young  people,  not 
to  speak  of  the  older  guests,  how  deeply  would  he  be  affected 
by  his  example !  Were  the  fingers  of  a  man's  hand  to  come 
out  upon  the  walls  of  this  dining-room,  and  write  in  legible 
characters  the  future  history  of  some  one  of  these  young 
persons  who  may  yet  be  ruined,  soul  and  body,  by  these 
drinks,  and  by  his  example  too,  we  might  behold  him  as  Bel- 
shazzer  of  old,  (Dan.  v.,)  his  countenance  changed,  his 
thoughts  troubling  him,  the  joints  of  lus  loins  loosed,  and  his 
knees  smiting  one  against  another.  Perhaps  it  was  in  refierence 
to  the  consequences  of  our  example,  that  the  apostie  advises, 
that  it  is  good  neither  to  drink  wine,  nor  any  thing  where- 
by thy  brother  stumbleth,  is  offended,  or  made  weak,  (Rom. 
ziv.,) — a  g«}od  New  Testament  tee-total  pledge  this  surely, 
when  the  church  of  God  tUnks  it  proper  to  take  it  up,  and 
act  upon  it  as  a  sacred  rule  of  Christian  conduct.  I  could 
write  much  upon  the  direful  evils  arising  from  ministerial  ex- 
ample in  drinking  and  smoking  —  but  I  forbear.  How  such 
men  can  consistently  expect  God  to  bless  their  ministry  in  the 
awakening  and  conversion  of  many  sinners,  I  cannot  well 
conceive,  unless  they  suppose  that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  desirous 
of  setting  the  seal  of  his  approbation  upon  their  habits, 
and  thus  imparting  a  greater  weight  and  influence  to  their 
pernicious  example. 

On  the  night  of  Thursday,  18th  inst.,  we  were  favored 
with  a  most  extraordinary  efiiision  of  the  Holy  Sjnrit,  in 


400 


DISPLAYS  OF  blVINU  OLOKY  IN  SHEFFIELD. 


Brunswick  chapel.  The  sermon  was  desigpcd  onlj  as  pre- 
paratory to  the  discourse  I  hod  sot  apart  for  the  following 
night,  which  was  to  be,  The  nature  of  that  faith  which 
purifies  the  heart.  On  the  night  in  question,  I  had  that  fine 
passage  for  my  text :  "  But  the  God  of  all  grace,  who  hath 
called  us  unto  his  eternal  glory  by  Christ  Jesus,  iUter  that 
ye  have  suflFered  a  while,  make  you  perfect,  stablish,  strength- 
tin,  settle  you."  1  Peter  v.  10.  I  was  led  to  lay  down  the 
following  proposition :  That  many  are  called  to  pass  tlm)ugh 
a  series  of  mental,  physical,  and  providential  sufferings,  before 
they  are  sanctified  entirely,  throughout  soul,  body,  and 
spirit. 

At  the  close  of  the  discourse,  the  Lord  was  pleased  to 
show  there  was  neither  merit  in  such  a  process  of  suffering, 
nor  any  necessity  for  it,  if  his  servants  were  only  willing  he 
should  cut  the  work  short  in  righteousness,  and  save  them  by 
faith.  The  cry  of  many  hearts  was,  "  Lay  down  the  rod  of 
chastisemeDt,  0  Lord,  and  save  us  by  faith.*'  Beholding  the 
people  much  affected,  I  concluded  to  leave  them  with  God. 
Hundreds  fell  down  upon  their  knees  at  once.  I  requested 
them  to  talk  with  God,  for  he  hod  come  down  among  thorn 
in  "  very  deed."  "  Now,  Lord,"  I  said,  "  the  people  are  at 
thy  feet ;  hear  them !  For  Christ's  sake,  hear  them  !  At- 
tend to  their  confessions ;  hear  their  cries,  and  save  them ! 
Save  them  by  faith !  If  they  only  believe  that  they  do  re- 
ceive, they  shall,  on  that  instant,  receive  all —  all  that  is  in 
thee.  Thy  mouth,  0  Lord  God,  hath  spoken  the  word." 
Prayer  -became  general  over  the  entire  chapel — galleries 
and  all  —  two  thousand  people  were  bowed  as  the  heart  of 
one  man.  'What  could  stand  before  this  ?  Neither  hell,  sin, 
unbelief,  devils,  nor  sinners.  The  power  of  God  came  down. 
The  supplications  of  believers  for  purity,  and  the  piercing 
cries  of  penitent  sinners  for  mercy  filled  my  soul  with  amaze. 


BssssssrsssBsg; 


SHEFFIELD. 

si^cd  only  as  prc- 
rt  for  tho  following 
'  that  faith  which 
tion,  I  had  that  fine 
all  grace,  who  hath 
ist  Jesua,  &fler  that 
I,  stablish,  strength- 
led  to  lay  down  the 
ed  to  paas  through 
ial  Bufferings,  before 
it  soul,  body,  and 

>rd  was  pleased  to 
process  of  suffering, 
we  only  wilUng  he 
8,  and  save  them  by 
lay  down  the  rod  of 
1."  Beholding  the 
,ve  them  with  God. 
once.  I  requested 
down  among  them 
"  the  people  are  at 
,  hear  them  !  Air 
)Sf  and  save  them ! 
ve  that  they  do  re- 
all —  all  that  is  in 
spoken  the  word." 
I  chapel — galleries 
red  as  the  heart  of 
'  Neither  hell,  sm, 
of  God  came  down. 
,  and  the  piercing 
my  soul  with  amaze. 


DISl'LAYS  OF  DIVINK  QLORt  IN   BUEVFIELI).         401 

I  huvo  witncsflod  a  few  scones  of  the  kind  in  tne  course  of  my 
ministry,  but  never  any  thing  so  universal  and  so  tremendous, 
and,  at  tho  same  time,  accompanied  with  so  little  of  any  thing 
that  could  be  imputed  to  human  extravagance  ;  —  it  was  the 
prayer  of  faith  in  every  heart  —  mighty,  omnipotent,  pre- 
vailing prayer !  Twenty-four  weeping  but  triumphant  con- 
verts, who  had  within  the  last  twenty  or  thirty  minutes  ob- 
ttuned  the  forgiveness  of  sins,  and  fifty  individuals  who  had 
received  purity  of  heart,  passed  successively  out  of  the 
chapel  into  one  of  the  vestries,  to  declare  there  what  great 
things  God  had  wrought  within  them.  How  many  more 
received  remission  of  sins,  and  purity,  during  that  wonderful 
visitation,  perhaps  we  shall  never  know  till  the  judgment  day. 
I  should  have  informed  you,  that  Brunswick  chapel  be- 
longs to  Sheffield  East  Circuit.  My  visit  to  that  chapel  was 
in  accordance  with  the  earnest  and  affectionate  request  of  the 
Superintendent,  the  Rev.  Alexander  Bell.  I  finished  my 
labors  m  Carver  Street  on  tho  5th  instant. 

The  views  of  the  official  men,  at  Sheffield,  of  Mr.  C.  and 
his  revival  labors,  may  be  seen  in  the  following : 

"  258,  Glossop  Boad,  SnEFFiEiD,  ) 
Jdne  27,  1844. } 
"  Rev.  James  Oaughey, 
"My  dear  Sm, 

*'  I  have  the  honor  of  forwarding  to  you  a  copy  of  a  reso- 
lution, passed  by  our  Quarterly  Meeting,  not  only  unani- 
mously, but  in  connection  with  addresses  from  several  of  cur 
preachers  and  leading  friends,  to  which  every  member 
seemed  to  respond ;  and  which  indicated  intense  interest  in 
your  operations,  and  a  high  degree  of  respect  and  affectioii 
for  yourself. 

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402         DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINE  GLORY  IN  SHETFIELD. 

"  It  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  make  a  coomiunication  so 

Xiuch  in  accordance  with  my  own  views  and  feelings ;  and  I 

trust  we '  shall  see  greater  things  than  these.'  I  am,  reverend 

and  dear  Sir,  yours  £uthfully, 

"Samubl  Hill  Smith." 

"  Copy  of  a  Resolution  of  the  Quarterly  Meeting  of  the 
Sheffield  West  Circuit,  held  June  the  24th,  1844.  Passed 
unanimously,  on  the  motion  of  the  senior  Circuit  steward, 
seconded  by  his  colleague. 

*'Ee»olvecl,  That  this  meetmg  would  gratefully  acknowl- 
edge the  goodness  of  God  in  rendering  the  course  of  special 
services,  now  in  progress,  so  effectual  in  promoting  a  revival 
of  Ids  work ;  and,  whilst  it  would  acknowledge  the  spirit  of 
love  and  zeal,  evinced  by  its  own  ministers  and  members,  it 
would  especially  express  its  sense  of  the  influence  which  the 
continuance,  during  the  last  six  weeks,  of  the  affectionate, 
enlightened,  and  powerful  mimstrations  of  the  Rev.  James 
Caughey,  has  excited  inbrin^g  about  a  reli^ous  awakemng, 
which  has  already  resulted  in  the  conversion  of  many  sinners, 
and  the  deepemng  of  the  work  of  grace  in  the  hearts  of 
many  believers.  And  the  meeting  further  resolves,  that  its 
warmest  thanks  are  due  to  Mr.  Caughey  for  his  kind  accept- 
ance of  an  invitation  to  visit  this  Circuit,  and  his  subsequent 
efficient  labors  in  it. 

<<  Signed  on  behalf  of  the  meeting, 

**  J.  P.  Haswbll,  Chairman, 

A  few  days  ago,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  taking  dinner  in 
company  with  James  Montgomery,  Esquire,  the  Sheffield 
poet.  The  honor  was  done  me  by  the  kindness  and  hospital- 
ity of  Mr.  Smith,  the  writer  of  the  above  letter.    We  spent 


iBjBg7iSjyttf|fc,itpiiiiiiiiyiii^g^^ 


htiiriTniiiit'l^HiVi  - 


r  SHEFFIELD. 

e  a  communication  so 

and  feelings ;  and  I 

lese.'  lam, reverend 

tEL  Hill  Smith." 

erly  Meeting  of  the 
i24t}i,1844.  Passed 
imor  Circuit  steward, 

d  gratefully  acknowl- 
tha  course  of  special 
n  promoting  a  revival 
lowledge  the  spirit  of 
sters  and  members,  it 
e  influence  which  the 
s,  of  the  affectionate, 
OS  of  the  Rev.  James 
a  reli^ous  awakemng, 
irnon  of  many  sinners, 
ace  in  the  hearts  of 
•ther  resolves,  that  its 
ey  for  his  kind  accept- 
it,  and  his  subsequent 


Dhauman, 

™'  j  Stewards." 

e  of  taking  dinner  in 
Ssqmre,  the  She£Seld 
kindness  and  hospital- 
K)ve  letter.    We  spent 


DISPLAYS  OF  divine  GLOBT  IN  SHEFHEU). 


an  hour  or  two  most  agreeably  in  conversation.  I  little 
thought,  when  reading  the  two  volumes  of  his  poems,  which 
grace  your  library,  that  I  should,  in  England — in  Sheffield, 
sec  and  converse  with  the  poet  himself. 

This  month,  up  till  within  the  last  few  days,  has  been 
marked  with  a  long  and  alarming  drought.  Sabbath  mom- 
mg  week,  I  felt  it  on  my  heart,  while  in  the  pulpit  in  Carver 
Street  chapel,  to  offer  up  publicly,  "  the  prayer  of  faith " 
for  rain.  The  effect  upon  many  present  was  remarkable. 
Some  thought  it  must  run  immediately.  Others  were  lifting 
up  their  eyes  to  the  windows,  expecting  the  usual  tokens  every 
moment.  Many  were  concerned  about  their  light  shoes  and 
clothing ;  others  were  thinkmg  seriously  of  sendmg  off  for 
their  umbrellas.  Alas!  they  were  disappointed.  When 
leaving  the  chapel,  they  smiled  at  theur  simplicity  on  observ- 
ing the  heavens  to  be  as  "  clear  and  cloudless "  as  ever. 
But,  as  Sammy  Hicks  said,  it  had  to  "  come  from  the  sea;" 
faith  ssaiy  Wait  and  expect  it.  On  the  night  of  the  same 
day,  that  God,  who  causeth  the  vapors  to  ascend  from  the 
ends  of  the  earth,  who  uttering  bis  voice  and  there  is  a 
multitude  of  waters  in  the  heavens,  who  maketh  lightnings 
with  rain,  and  bringeth  forth  the  wind  out  of  his  treasuries, 
(Psalm  oxxxv.  7 ;  Jer.  x.  18,)  favored  the  thirsty  earth  with 
a  refreshing  shower  of  nun.  Hallelujah!  the  Lord  God 
omnipotent  reigneth ;  a  prayer-answering  as  well  as  a  aor 
pardoning  God. 

Since  the  date  of  my  last,  I  changed  my  residence  to  die 
mansion  of  Jonathan  Beet,  Esq.,*  father  of  my  late  host,  Mr. 
William  Beet.  He  is,  I  believe,  the  oldest  member  of  tl:^ 
Wesleyan  church  in  Sheffield ;  an  intelligent,  agreeable,  and 
venerable  servant  of  the  living  God.  In  both  ftmiilies  I  have 
been  treated  with  great  kindness  and  hospitality.  That  they 
*  Since  gone  to  his  reward  In  heaven. 


404         DISPLAYS  OF  DIVINE  GLORY  IN  SHEFFIELD 

may  have  their  reward,  not  only  in  the  present  life,  but  in 
Jie  resurrection  of  the  just,  is  the  prayer  of  their  grateful 
guest. 

I  enjoyed  a  pleasant  ride  the  other  day,  in  company  with 
Mr.  John  Unwin,  to  Norton ;  a  pretty  neighborhood,  a  few 
miles  from  Sheffield ;  and  dined  at  Norton  House,  the  resi- 
dence of  one  of  our  Wesloyan  friends,  Thomas  B.  Holy, 
Esq.  It  is  an  ancient,  baromal-like  mansion,  partly  covered 
with  ivy,  venerable  in  aspect,  and  ''beautiful  for  situation." 
We  spent  several  hours  most  agreeably  with  Mr.  Holy  and 
his  excellent  and  pious  lady.  Before  dinner,  we  walked 
through  the  old  church.  Norton  is  the  birthplace  of  the 
celebrated  sculptor,  Francis  Chantrey ;  one  of  the  greatest 
artists  whom  England  has  produced.  There  is  a  monument  to 
his  memory  in  the  church,  of  plain  white  marble,  enriched 
with  a  medallion  likeness  of  the  artist  —  an  exquisite  piece 
of  sculpture.  His  remains  repose  a  few  yards  from  the 
church,  encompassed  by  an  iron  palisadmg.  A  short  tune 
before  his  death  he  came  down  from  London  to  choose  hia 
place  of  sepulture.  In  doing  so,  he  remarked  to  the  aged 
clergyman  of  the  parish,  "But  I  do  not  intend  you  to  buiy 
me ; "  but  he  did  so,  very  shortly  after. 

My  home  at  present  is  Shirley  House,  near  Sheffield,  the 
residence  of  Nathaniel  Greaves,  Esq.  It  is  a  lovely  spot, 
quite  retired.  The  grounds  are  not  extensive,  but  "the 
touch  of  taste  is  every  where  around;"  "well-assorted 
hues,"  and  "graceful  mixtures"  with  "level  walks  and  foliaged 
bowers,"  "  the  fair  results  of  thought,  the  creature  of  a 
fljlished  nund."  In  Mr.  and  Mra.  Greaves  I  have  found 
two  excellent  friends,  for  whom  I  trust  to  praise  God  in 
heaven.  May  our  friendship  be  perpetuated  for  ever !  I  am 
thuikful  to  my  kind  and  gracious  Lord  for  the  mercies  which 
enclose  me  around.    I  may  well  blush,  when  I  think  of  my 


[EFFIELD 

esent  life,  but  in 
of  thoiv  grateful 

n  company  with 
;hborhood,  a  few 
House,  the  resi' 
'homas  B.  Holy, 
1,  partly  covered 
111  for  situation." 
h  Mr.  Holy  and 
ner,  we  walked 
}irthplace  of  the 
of  the  greatest 
s  a  monument  to 
oarble,  enriched 
I  exquisite  piece 
yards  from  the 
A  short  time 
m  to  choose  his 
ced  to  the  aged 
end  you  to  bury 

ar  Sheffield,  the 
I  a  lovely  spot, 
isive,  but  "the 

"  well-assorted 
ilks  and  foliaged 
)  creature  of  a 
s  I  hare  found 

praise  God  in 
for  ever !  I  am 
B  mercies  which 
\  I  think  of  my 


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DISPLAYS  OJ  DIVINE  GLORY  IN  SHEFFIELD.         405 

divine  Master,  "  who  led  a  suffering  life,  mured  to  poverty 
and  pwn,"  while  I  have  all,  and  abound.  "  The  servant 
is  above  his  Lord !  " 

"  Had  I  the  choice  of  sublunary  good, 
What  could  I  wish,  that  I  pocsess  not  here  7 
Health,  leisure,  means  t'  improve  it,  friendship,  peace, 
And  constant  occupation,  without  care  ! " 

I  am  preaching,  however,  at  the  usual  rate  —  six  times  a 
week,  prayer  meetmg  on  Monday  night,  roserving  only 
Saturday  night  for  myself.  The  revival  shows  no  pause. 
Multitudes  of  sinners  are  tummg  to  God  on  every  hand.  A 
Sabbath  or  two  ago,  more  than  one  hundred  and  sixty  per- 
sons were  saved  in  one  day.    Glory  and  praise  be  unto  God ! 

A  few  days  since,  I  planted,  in  the  presence  of  a  company 
of  friends,  two  small  trees,  a  cedar  and  a  yew,  in  the  la^vn 
of  Shirley  House.  They  are  named  «  after  "  me,  and  seem 
to  be  doing  well.  This  month,  thus  far,  and  the  last,  have 
been  the  happiest  in  my  life.  The  holy  joy  and  rest  m  God 
I  have  felt  in  my  soul,  have  been  inexpresmbly  sweet  and 
delightfiiL 


,     / 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 


CONCLUDING  INCIDENTS  IN  SHEPFIELD. 

Tius  may  be  tonned  the  Sunday  School  Teacher's  chap 
ter,  because  of  the  beautiful  letter  of  Mr.  Chaloner  to  Mr. 
Caughey,  describing  a  great  work  of  God  among  the  children 
of  Red  Hill  Sabbath  School  in  Sheffield.  That  letter  ought 
to  be  read  in  every  American  Sabbath  school.  It  demon- 
strates the  possibility  of  sound  convermon  and  of  extenavo 
revivals  among  cluldren. 

This  chapter  carries  the  narrative  of  Mr.  Caughey's 
labors  down  to  the  8th  of  September,  1844,  the  date  on 
which  he  closed  his  wondrously  successful  efforts  in  Shef- 
field. 

On  the  evemng  of  August  1, 1844,  we  held  a  meeting 
for  the  benefit  of  the  now  converts,  in  Bnmswick  chapel, 
similar  to  those  I  have  described  in  former  letters.  About 
three  hundred  and  seventy-five  new  converts  were  present ; 
it  was  a  most  gracious  season,  a  confirming  and  strengtben 
ing  time,  to  those  who  had  but  just  commenced  the  heavenly 

race. 

Shortly  after  the  above  meeting,  I  received  the  following 
note  from  the  secretary.    It  will  show  you  the  wonderf al 
character  of  the  revival  in  Brunswick  chapel :  — 
406 


II. 

iHEFFIELD. 

lool  Teacher's  cliap 
Mr.  Chaloner  to  Mr. 
»d  among  the  children 
l.  That  letter  ought 
L  school.  It  demon- 
ion  and  of  cxteu^ve 

B  of  Mr.  Caughey's 
p,  1844,  the  date  on 
issful  efforts  in  Shef- 


I,  we  held  a  meeting 
n  Bn.mswick  chapel, 
)rmer  letters.  About 
onverts  were  present ; 
ning  and  strengttien 
omenced  the  heavenly 

received  the  following 
w  you  the  wonderful 
chapel :  — 


"•^ 


kUiMiliiii 


CONCLUBINO  INCIDENTS  IN  SHEFFIELD. 


40*; 


"  Sheffield  Moor,  August  3, 1844. 
"Vem  dear  Sib, 

"  I  have  taken  the  liberty  of  forwardbg  to  you  a  copy 
from  our  book,  (as  on  other  side,)  of  the  numbers  up  to  the 
present  time.  Truly  we  may  say, '  What  hath  God  wrought ! ' 
"  That  you  may  be  strengthened  in  body  and  blessed  in 
soul,  and  rendered  instrumental  of  still  greater  good,  is  the 
sincere  and  earnest  prayer  of 

"  Yours  very  respectfully, 

"Abraham  Sharhan. 

"  Special  service'i,  held  in  Brunswick  chapel,  Sheffield,— 
remits,— (rom  July  7th  to  August  2d,  1844. 


Wrik  auUnx 


July 


Aug. 


12. 

19. 

26. 

2. 


Vrom  the 
World. 

.  200 

.  180 

.  222 

.  140 


In 

SoeMy. 

8» 
82 
44 

28 


Sanetifled.     P«r  W«^    XMtL 


61 

152 

90 

76 


290 
864 
862 
244 


1260.' 


It  is  proper  to  lemark  that  many  of  the  above,  who  vere 
from  the  world,  resided  in  country  Circuits,  and  within  the 
range  of  other  churches.  On  their  return,  they  joined  their 
respective  churches  in  their  own  localities.  Still  the  Wesley- 
ans  claim  by  far  the  largest  proportion.  I  shall  endeavor  to 
find  out  what  the  real  increase  is  likely  to  be,  as  reaUzed  by 
the  Wosleyan  church  in  Sheffield,  and  what  proportion  of 
the  above  numbers  were  members  in  the  two  Circuits  in 
town,  and  phall  state  the  same,  if  possible,  in  my  next 
commiicication. 

On  the  4tb  instant,  (August,)  we  commenced  a  series  of 
special  services  in  Norfolk  Street  chapel,  which  continued 
through  eighteen  days.  I  had  little  of  that  comfort  and 
satisfaction  in  this  chapel  that  I  had  at  Eoenezer,  Carver 
Street,  and  Brunawick  th^pels.  There  was  something  there, 
in  my  apprehenmon,  UiAfc  giieved  tiie  Holy  Spirit ;  still  the 


. 


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J 


408  OONCLUDINO   INCIDENTS   IN   SHEFFIELD. 

results  were  very  groat.  From  the  world,  more  than  four 
hundred  souls;  about  two  hundred  of  whom  I  understand, 
joined  the  circuit  to  which  Norfolk  Street  chapel  belongs, 
and  above  one  hundred  united  with  the  other  Circuit.  I  was 
surprised  to  find,  that  of  so  many  hundreds  saved,  so  few 
belonged  to  the  Norfolk  Street  congregation.  Why,  1  can- 
not tell.  The  Lord  knoweth ;  for  all  things  are  naked  and 
open  to  Him,  with  whom  we  have  to  do.  Perhaps  they  may 
Xld  themselves  to  God  suddenly,  even  before  I  leave  the 
town;  for  in  this  revival,  nothing  but  what  is  qmte  impossible 
Beems  difficult. 

"  Like  mighty  winds  or  torrents  fierce, 
It  doth  opposers  all  o'erturn." 

I  forgot  to  add  that  nearly  three  hundred  beUovew  pro- 
fessed  to  obtain  purity  of  heart  during  the  services  m  Norfolk 
Street.  All  gloJy  be  to  God !  He  doeth  the  works^  »« 
arm  is  nughty.  What  can  withstand  his  power  ?  Sm,  the 
devU,  heUlmd  its  powers,  sinners  and  their  errors  m  doc- 
trine;  and  pra^tice'Tmust  fly  or  fall  before  the  influence^f 
the  Spirit,  as  chaff  before  the  wmd.  .lallelujah!  The 
Lord  God  ommpotent  reigneth.    Amen  and  amen ! 

I  am  sure  the  following  letter,  written  to  me  by  a  superin- 
tendent of  one  of  the  Sabbatii  schools  of  <^  *«^' ^^^^^ 
interesting  to  you.    You  may  depend  upon  ti^e;*?;t«^«?« 
it  contains.    If  you  tWnk  proper,  you  ^ay  read  it  to  tibe 
children  of  your  Sabbath  school.    It  will  show  them  how 
E^^'h  chndren  are  affected  ^^7  ^^^  ^^  ^V^^^^^ 
PeLps  the  teachers  may  also  profit  by  it.    By  th«  docu^ 
xnent  they  may  learn  how  deeply  some  of  the  teachers  and 
superintendents  of  Smiday  schools  in  England  are  concerned 
for  the  conversion  of  the  chUdren  committed  to  their  car^^ 
The  great  design  of  their  labors  is  not  merely  to  teach  the 
p«pite  to  read,  (this  and  other  branches  of  iteming  may  be 


■  nlUlUvnrfifc'  r|>|iii||-|||Milir  "(■ 


HEFPIELD. 

orld,  more  than  four 
whom,  I  understand, 
reet  chapel  belongs, 
other  Circuit.  I  waa 
idreds  saved,  so  few 
;ation.  Why,  I  can- 
hings  are  naked  and 
.  Perhaps  they  may 
n  before  I  leave  the 
kat  is  quite  impossible 

lerce, 

mdred  believers  pro* 
;he  services  in  Norfolk 
)eth  the  -works.    His 
his  power  ?    Sin,  the 
I  their  errors  in  doc- 
efore  the  influences  of 
I.     .lallelujah!    The 
an  and  amen ! 
en  to  me  by  a  superin- 
j  of  this  town,  will  be 
I  upon  the  statements 
>u  may  read  it  to  the 
t  will  show  them  how 
3  truths  of  the  gosrel. 
;  by  it.    By  this  docu- 
ne  of  the  teachers  and 
England  are  concerned 
immitted  to  their  care, 
aot  merely  to  teach  the 
hes  of  l^iming  may  be 


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CONCLUDING   INCIDENTS  IN   SHEFFIELD. 


409 


acquired  in  the  week-day  schools,)  but  to  bring  them  to  an 
early  and  to  an  experimental  acquaintance  with  God.  Tliia 
should  be  the  end,  the  distinct  aim  of  all  who  labor  in  the 
Sabbath  school.  The  object  of  such  institutions  is  scarcely 
half  accompUshed,  if  the  instruction  does  not  result  m  the 
conversion  of  the  scholar  before  his  final  dismission  from  the 

school. 

«  Sheffield,  Church  Stbeet,  July  9, 1844. 

"  Rev.  and  deae  Sm, 

"  I  have  thought  several  times  you  might  not  deem  it 
impertinent  in  me  if  I  were  to  inform  you  what  God  has 
been  doing  for  us  at  Red  Hill  school. 

"Sunday,  July  7th,  was  the  most  glorious  day  evet 
mtnessed  in  connection  with  the  services  of  that  institution. 
Many  special  seasons  have  occurred  in  its  history,  (one  in 
particular,  I  remember,  during  which  seventy  children  pro- 
fessed to  obtain  the  forgiveness  of  their  sins,)  but  the  oldest 
laborer  in  tiie  iratitution  declares,  that  tiiis  gracious  visitation 
from  on  high  surpasses  them  all.    A  few  friends  met  acci- 
dentally last  week,  and  in  the  course  of  conversation,  it  waa 
suggested  that,  now  tiie  special  services  were  removed  from 
the  neighDorhood  of  the  school,  something  should  be  done 
to  insure  the  stability  of  the  work  of  God,  so  far  as  it  had 
extended  among  tiie  children.     It  was  agreed,  tiierefore, 
tiiat  aU  tiie  teachers  should  be  specially  invited  to  attend  on 
Sunday  morning,  tiiat  such  plans  nught  be  adopted  as  would 
best  conduce  to  that  object.    When  they  met,  it  was  agreed 
that  tiiose  children  and  teachers  who  had  received  blessmgp 
during  the  revival,  should  be  called  out  of  the  school-room 
into  the  vestry,  while  a  verse  waa  being  sung;  tiiat,  whUe 
two  of  the  friends  made  minute  inquiries  mto  tiie  spiritual 
state  of  each  child,  and  whetiier  she  had  met  in  tiie  class  to 
which  she  had  been  appointed  at  the  chapel,  one  of  the 
35 


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no 


CONCLUDING  INCIDENTS  IN  SHEFFIELD. 


superintendents  should  deliver  a  sliort  address  in  the  school, 
and  commence  a  prayer  meeting,  mviting  all  who  felt  a 
desire  to  save  their  souls  to  come  forward  to  be  prayed  for. 
rhe  vestry  waa  shortly  filled  with  children  who  had  been 
saved  at  the  chapels,  and  it  was  a  glorious  sight ;  and  soon 
after  brother  James  Wilkinson  had  spoken  a  few  solemn 
wjrds,  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost  descended  and  melted 
us  all  into  tears.    It  was  with  some  difficulty  that  we  cor  Id 
gv-t  to  our  work  of  inquiry ;  but,  when  entered  upon,  it  was 
moiit  satisfactory.     Out  of  more  than  eighty  present,  only 
nine  had  not  been  to  class ;  and  some  of  the  nine  had  only 
been  saved  on  the  Thursday  evening  previously,  and  had  not 
had  the  opportunity.    Before,  however,  we  had  got  through 
this  part  of  our  blegsed  labor,  the  room  was  again  half  filled 
with  girls,  who,  with  streaming  eyes  and  joyful  countenances, 
came  to  tell  us  what  God  had  done  for  their  souls  in  the 
prayer  meeting  that  was  being  carried  on  in  the  school-room. 
From  this  time  (soon  after  eleven  o'clock)  the  cWldren 
continued  to  throng  into  the  vestry  until  nearly  twelve, 
when  eighty-two  precious  souls  were  rejoicmg  in  a  ain- 
pardomng  God,  and  were  appointed  to  suitable  classes. 
Duriri''  all  this  time  my  hands  were  so  full  I  had  not  an 
opportumty  to  mingle  with  our  friends  in  the  school-room ; 
and  though  we  felt  the  presence  of  God  with  us  in  the 
vestry,  in  a  remarkable  manner,  yet  I  am  told  that  the 
scene  in  the  school-room,  and  the  glory  felt,  surpassed 
description.    At  one  period  it  seemed  as  if  the  whole  con- 
gregation of  teachers  and  children  -ftv^re  bowed  down  with 
the  weight  of  the  overshadowing  glory.    Hundreds  were  in 
distress ;  and  it  seemed  a  small  matter  for  the  whole  school 
to  be  saved.     In  the  afl»moon,  the  prayer  meeting  was 
commenced  again,  and  sixty-three  more  souls  entered  into 
ibe  glorious  Uberty  of  the  gospel.    The  whole  number  for 


■*r,i«,»»f  >My»-ragt'»i 


EFTIELD. 


CONOLUDIKa  INCIDENTS  IN  SHEFFIELD 


411 


Ircss  in  the  school, 
ing  all  who  felt  a 
I  to  be  prayed  for. 
ren  who  had  been 
IS  sight;  and  soon 
iken  a  few  solemn 
scnded  and  melted 
culty  that  we  cor  Id 
ntered  upon,  it  was 
sighty  present,  only 
f  the  nine  had  only 
riously,  and  had  not 
tre  had  got  through 
ras  again  half  filled 
joyful  countenances, 
»r  their  souls  in  the 
[  in  the  school-room, 
slock)  the  cluldren 
intil  nearly  twelve, 
rejoicing  in  a  sin- 
bo  suitable  classes. 
>  full  I  had  not  an 
n  the  school-room; 
!x)d  with  us  in  the 
[  am  told  that  the 
iory  felt,  surpassed 
is  if  the  whole  con- 
e  bowed  down  with 

Hundreds  were  in 
for  the  whole  school 
irayer  meeting  was 

souls  entered  into 
9  whole  number  for 


the  day  being  one  hundred  and  forty-five.  All  glory  be  m 
God  I  We  little  expected  such  a  result  when  God  first  put 
it  in  our  hearts  to  care  for  the  stability  of  the  work  among 
the  children ;  and  our  cry  is  now,  *  Lord,  what  shall  we  do 
next?*  And  I  think  there  seems  to  be  no  answer  but 
*  Walk  by  the  same  rule,  mind  the  same  thing.*  The  Lord 
help  us! 

"  I  should  say  that  these  details  refer  only  to  the  girls' 
school,  in  which  there  are  above  five  hundred  scholars, 
nearly  half  of  whom  are  now  professing  to  believe  on  Jesus 
Christ  to  the  salvation  of  their  souls.  There  were  also  at 
least  two  clear  instances  of  entire  sanctification. 

"I  have  written  much  more  than  I  thought  would  be 
necessary.  Please  to  pardon  my  prolixity,  and  believe  me 
to  remain,  ever  yours,  most  afiectionately, 

"  G.  Chaloneb." 

After  fimsMng  lus  labors  in  Norfolk  Street  chapel,  Mr. 
Caughey  revisited  the  other  chapels,  spending  a  day  or  two 
in  each.  He  also  spent  one  Sabbath  in  Bridgehouse's  chapel. 
He  closes  his  account  of  the  Sheffield  revival  in  the  following 
words : 

As  the  time  of  my  departure  from  Sheffield  approached, 
public  excitement,  and  anxiety  to  hear  the  gospel,  became 
deeper  and  more  widely  extended.  The  congregations  were 
overwhelming,  and  my  labors  excessive.  In  consequence 
of  which,  I  regret  to  find  I  have  made  but  very  few  notes 
of  our  proceedings.  Borne  onward  from  one  wave  of  feeling 
to  another,  I  find  myself  in  London;  and  the  events  of  the 
last  few  weeks  appear  more  "  like  a  stormy  and  troubled 
dream"  than  realities,  leaving  me  but  few  materials  by 
which  to  enrich  a  letter  to  my  friend.  This  may  suffice,  that 
hundreds  more  were  saved,  and  multitudes  of  sinners  besidei 


9.    ; 


I 


112 


OONCLUDINQ  INCIDENTS  IN   BHBFFIELD. 


were  awakened  to  a  concern  for  their  souls,  which  it  is  to  be 
hoped  they  may  never  lose. 

I  spent  two  evenings,  before  leaving  Sheffield,  with  the 
ministers  and  leaders.  The  first  evemng  with  the  officials 
of  the  West  Circmt,  in  Carver  Street  band-room.  The  Rev. 
J.  P.  Haswell,  Superintendent,  presided.  There  are  about 
fifty  local  preachers,  and  more  than  twice  that  number  of 
class  leaders  on  the  Circuit,  the  greater  part  of  whom  were 
present.  After  tea,  Mr.  Haswell  introduced  the  business 
of  the  meeting,  desiring  the  leaders  to  give  some  account 
of  the  state  of  their  classes,  and  the  number  and  character 
of  the  new  converta  which  had  been  committed  to  their  care. 
Those  who  had  obtained  the  largest  accesmona  spoke  first. 
Their  testimomes  were  most  cheering  and  satisfactory.  0,  it 
was  a  gracious  and  melting  season !  The  brethren  were  all 
greatly  favored  of  the  Lord.  Their  lips  seemed  touched 
with  celestial  fire.  They  spoke  with  uncommon  liberty, 
power,  unction,  and  propriety.  Some  related  cases  of  con- 
version of  a  very  remarkable  character.  Others  told  some 
thrillmg  incidents  in  the  history  and  experience  of  those 
lately  brought  m.  My  heart  was  greatly  comforted.  The 
reaction,  about  which  some  had  prophesied,  I  felt  sure  would 
not  come.  I  told  the  leaders  all  my  heart,  all  I  hoped,  all 
I  had  feared.  I  pleaded  the  necessity  of  taking  care  of 
those  who  had  been  rescued  from  the  devil  and  the  world ; 
urged  on  their  attention,  that  much  depended  upon  their 
faithfulness  as  leaders,  in  care,  prayer,  zeal,  watchfulness, 
and  perseverance,  whether  the  multitudes  saved  should  be 
preserved  from  going  back  into  the  world.  The  manner  in 
which  these  dear  brethren  responded,  left  an  impression  upon 
my  heart  of  gratitude,  confidence,  and  joy,  which  I  shall 
remember  for  ever.  Mr.  Haswell  dosed  with  prayer.  And 
tuch  a  prayer !   We  had  "  showers  of  blessmgs."   It  seemed 


ISFFIELD. 

lis,  vhich  it  is  to  bo 

Shc£Seld,  mth  the 
Qg  Tvith  the  officials 
id-room.  The  Rer. 
There  are  about 
ice  that  number  of 
part  of  whom  were 
duced  the  business 
give  some  account 
mber  and  character 
Doitted  to  their  care, 
sessions  spoke  first. 
I  satisfactory.  0,  it 
le  brethren  were  all 
ps  seemed  touched 
uncommon  liberty, 
jlated  cases  of  con- 
Others  told  some 
sxperience  of  those 
tly  comforted.  The 
sd,  I  felt  sure  would 
art,  all  I  hoped,  all 
;y  of  taking  care  of 
evil  and  the  world ; 
epended  upon  their 
,  zeal,  watohfulncss, 
ies  saved  should  be 
Id.  The  manner  in 
I  an  impression  upon 
joy,  which  I  shall 
,  with  prayer.  And 
issings."   It  seemed 


CONCLUDING   INCIDENTS  IN   SHEFFIELD. 


418 


as  if  the  heavens  were  opened,  as  if  God  and  angels  came 
down  among  men.  The  powers  of  the  world  to  come  over- 
shadowed, and  sweetly  possessed,  and  filled  every  soul,  lie 
prayed  for  the  uninterrupted  progress  of  the  work  of  God ; 
for  the  stability  of  the  new  converts;  but  especially  for  me : 
and  in  such  strains  of  heavenly  eloquence  as  must  have 
surprised  himself,  and  with  such  a  glowing  fervency  of  soul 
as  utterly  amazed  and  overpowered  me.  May  my  most 
graeious  God  answer  that  wonderful  prayer,  (for  if  ever  a 
prayer  opened  heaven,  and  entered  into  the  ears  of  the 
Almighty ,''and  moved  him  to  do  yet  greater  and  more  won- 
drous things,  that  prayer  surely  did,)  and  bless  his  precious 
servant,  and  reward  him  for  his  kindness  to  me,  a  stranger 
in  a  strange  land !     Amen  and  amen ! 

I  had  the  privilege  of  a  similar  meeting,  the  following 
lught,  with  the  brethren  in  the  East  Circuit,  in  Norfolk 
Street  band  or  school-room.  This  also  was  a  gracious 
season ;  but  hardly  equal  to  the  previous  night.  The  leaders 
indeed,  spoke  equally  well,  and  pledged  themselves  quite  as 
heartily  and  sincerely  to  take  all  possible  care  of  the  recent 
subjects  of  mercy.  But  the  Rev.  Alexander  Bell,  and  his 
excellent  colleagues,  who  had  seen  this  great  work,  and  who 
took  a  rejoicmg  interest  in  its  advancement,  were  not  there ; 
they  had  gone  to  their  new  Circuits.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Filter, 
the  new  Superintendent,  was  exceedingly  kind,  and  mani- 
fested a  strong  desire  to  have  the  meeting  every  way  agree- 
able to  mjTself.  One  or  two  of  the  new  preachers  weri 
present,  who  of  course  could  not  be  expected  to  have  such 
deep  sympathies  with  the  work  as  those  who  had  been  so 
ardently  engaged  in  it  during  the  last  four  eventful  months. 
I  find  it  difficult  at  present  to  give  you  those  accurate  sta- 
tistics which  you  desire,  as  to  the  extent  of  the  revivall 
But  the  number  saved  must  be  very  great ;  of  this  I  shall 
35« 


mmmtiimm 


am 


414 


OOHChmilSQ  INOIOEMTS  IN  SHEFFIELD. 


be  better  able  to  inform  you  on  my  return  from  the  conti- 
nent. The  brethren,  the  leaders  and  secretaries,  will  then 
have  had  time  to  compare  notes ;  by  which  they  will  ascer- 
tun,  with  considerable  accuracy,  the  actual  accessions  to 
the  Wesleyan  church  on  the  two  Circuits ;  and  the  exact 
numbers  who  belonged  to  other  churches  in  town  and 
oountiy. 

Thus  delightfully  tenxunated  Mr.  Caughey's  remarkable 
oareer  in  Sheffield.  To  the  curious  reader,  the  foUowmg 
statement  from  a  pamphlet  published  in  She^eld  some 
eighteen  months  after  he  left,  will  be  deeply  interesting.  It 
shows  how  fhutful  oi  }>ermanent  good  were  his  wonderful 
eflforts. 

The  author  says :  ''  The  annexed  Statistical  Account  of 
the  Special  Services  held  in  Sheffield,  during  1844,  by  the 
Rev.  James  Caughey,  careftilly  compiled  from  the  renter 
books  kept  on  those  occasions,  will  be  viewed  with  deep 
interest,  and  may  tend  to  throw  light  upon  some  of  the 
anomalies  hitherto  regarded  as  inseparable  from  revival 
movements.  Perhaps  so  complete  a  summary  of  a  revival 
has  never  before  been  made  public." 

On  this   extract,  Mr.  Caughey  makes   the   following 
comments: 

In  looking  over  the  table  to  which  the  author  refers,  I 
perceive  that  more  than  three  thousand  sinners  were  con- 
verted to  God ;  and  upwards  of  fourteen  hundred  believers 
professed  to  have  obtmed  purity  of  heart,  or  entire  sancti- 
fication.  Matt.  v.  8 ;  1  Thess.  v.  23 ;  1  John  iv.  17, 18. 
About  eleven  hundred  of  the  latter  class  belonged  to  the 
two  Circuits  in  the  town ;  the  remainder  were  members  of 
otbei  churches  in  and  around  Sheffield.    Of  those  jtisrdficd, 


L 


[ETFIELD. 

am  from  the  jonti- 
icretaries,  vill  then 
oh  thej  will  ascer- 
otual  accessions  to 
its;  and  the  exact 
chea  in  town  and 

ighey's  remarkable 
iador,  the  following 
in  She^eld  some 
ply  interesting.  It 
(rere  his  wonderful 

tistacal  Accomit  of 
uring  1844,  by  tho 
[  from  the  renter 
viewed  with  deep 
upon  some  of  the 
Lrable  from  revival 
immary  of  a  revival 

ikes   the   following 

the  author  refers,  I 
id  sinners  were  con- 
X  hundred  believers 
art,  or  entire  sancti- 

1  John  iv.  17, 18. 
lass  belonged  to  the 
•r  were  members  of 

Of  those  jnar'ificd, 


OONCLDDma  INCIDENTS  IN  BUEFFISLD. 


416 


upwards  of  five  hundred  were  already  members;  persons 
who  either  never  had  been  regenerated,  though  meeting 
regularly  in  class,  or  who  had  been  living  in  a  backsliding 
state.  Hundreds  of  the  abovementioned  three  thousand 
persons,  wore  from  distant  towns,  "  people  of  tho  world," 
living  chiefly  within  the  bounds  of  the  Sheffield  District, 
and  who,  doubtless,  united  with  chuiches  in  their  respective 
neighborhoods.  Spoaking  of  those  which  belonged  to  Shef- 
field, the  author  remarks :  "  With  regard  to  these  it  may  be 
stated,  that  many  either  could  not  be  found  by  the  address 
they  gave,  or  never  attended  class ;  some  were  forbidden  to 
join  the  society  by  their  parents ;  some  left  the  neighbor- 
hood ;  some  proved  to  be  impostors ;  while  many,  surrounded 
by  the  most  wicked  and  abandoned  of  our  race,  and  com- 
pelled to  hold  intercourse  with  them,  amidst  cu'cumstances 
and  influences  of  the  most  debasing  and  dcmorali^ng  char- 
acter, were  soon  jeered  or  provoked  out  of  their  religion, 
and  *  endured  but  for  a  time.' " 

In  again  referring  to  the  table,  I  find  that  one  hundred 
and  forty-nine  were  found  to  belong  to  churches  in  town,  and 
at  a  distance.  There  were,  besides,  five  or  six  score  who 
were  not  appointed  to  classes,  —  who  did  not,  when  they 
gave  theur  names  to  the  secretary,  decide  to  meet  in  class, 
or  what  church  they  would  join.  I  cannot  but  admire  the 
business-like  manner  in  which  the  secretaries  of  the  revival,* 
on  both  Circuits,  performed  their  duties ;  nor  the  industry, 
patience,  and  care  they  have  evidently  taken  in  preparing 
materials  for  this  remarkable,  important,  and  well-authenti- 
cated table.  For,  I  have  no  doubt,  the  author  of  the  pam- 
phlet received  valuable  aid  from  them  in  presenting  the 
English  public  with  such  an  interesting  series  of  statistics. 

*  Weat  Circnit,  Mr.  John  Unwin  and  Mr.  John  Jepton.  EMt  Ciranii) 
Moun.  Abraham  Shannon,  Jolxi  Jonea,  Jan.,  and  Henry  Alcard,  Jan. 


416 


COKCLUDINa  INCIDENTS  IN   SHEFFIELD. 


Of  those  converted  from  the  world,  "  about  one  hundred 
and  thirty-eight  were  generally  under  the  age  of  sixteen." 
These  were  appomted  to  meet  in  classes  for  catechumens ; 
and  in  due  time,  if  faithful  to  the  grace  of  God,  wiU  he 
received  mto  the  church  as  members.    The  actual  increase 
which  has  been  realized  from  this  great  revival,  by  the 
Wesleyan  church  in  Sheffield,  is  best  ascertained  from  the 
book  o£  "  Minutes  of  Confereuce."     That  for  1845  now 
lies  before  me,  showing  an  increase  on  the  previous  year,  up 
to  the  March  quarter,  in  the  Sheffield  two  Circuits,  of 
between  eight  and  nine  hundred  members !    To  God  be  all 
the  glory !    Amen  and  amen !    The  Sheffield  District  shows 
an  increase  on  the  past  year  of  one  thousand  four  hundred 
and  twenty-five  members,  and  one  thousand  one  hundred 
and  twenty-eight  on  trial.    So  that  there  is  a  good  prospect 
that  the  increase  in  the  District,  tins  present  year,  will  be 
large ;  so,  should  any  reaction  occur  in  Sheffield  itself,  the 
District  will  come  up  to  the  help  of  the  good  old  town,  and 
rescue  the  honor  of  the  re^val.* 

Many  who  were  converted  during  the  above  revival,  are 
scattered  over  Methodism  in  the  District,  and  in  other 
churches,  and  indeed  into  various  parts  of  the  kingdom. 
I  meet  with  some  of  them  in  my  joumeyings,  who  know  me, 
although  I  am  unable,  frequently,  to  recognize  them.  How 
many  times  do  they  hail  me  with  joy,  and  with  heaven 
beaming  upon  their  faces,  and  teU  me  what  great  things  God 

•  Well  time,  that  brings  about  many  important  evente,  and  tests  many 
"  works  and  ways,"  presents  ns  with  the  "  Minutes  ••  for  1846.  The  increase 
this  year  in  Sheffield  Is  but  small  -  only  fifty.  But  it  to  a  matter  of  comfort 
♦0  me  that  two  years  wUl  soon  have  expired,  and  yet,  according  to  the  best 
Authenticated  docomento  in  Methodism,  the  "  woftal  reaction,"  so  confidently 
prophesied  of  by  some,  has  not  yet  occurred  1  May  it  never  I  The  DUtrioU 
as  I  expected,  announces  an  increase  of  upwards  of  eight  hundred  membei*. 
Halleliyah!  the  Lord  God  omnipotent  reigneth !  J- 0. 

Dkckmbeb,  lt46. 


"■i«iwiJmiiB«liawWm»i  nil  I 


)ut  OQO  hundred 
age  of  siitcon." 
for  catechumens; 
I  of  God,  vnll  be 
le  actual  increase 
b  revival,  by  the 
ertained  from  the 
it  for  1845  now 
previous  year,  up 
two  Circmts,  of 
!    To  God  be  all 
eld  District  shows 
md  four  hundred 
and  one  hundred 
is  a  good  prospect 
sent  year,  will  be 
heffield  itself,  the 
;ood  old  town,  and 

above  revival,  are 
ict,  and  in  other 

of  the  kingdom, 
igs,  who  know  me, 
gmze  them.    How 

and  mth  heaven 
it  great  things  God 

events,  and  tests  many 
for  1816.  The  incresso 
t  is  a  matter  of  comfort 
it,  according  to  tlie  best 
eaction,"  so  confidently 
it  never  1  Tlie  District, 
eight  hundred  member*. 

J.  a 


1 


OONCLUDINQ   IlfCIDENTS  IN  BHEPFIELD. 


417 


wrought  for  their  souls,  under  my  humble  ministry  in  Shef 
field !  My  soul  rejoices  in  the  Lord,  and  triumphs  in  the 
Rock  of  my  salvation.  I  feel  sweetly  happy.  The  revival 
in  SheflSeld  surpassed  any  thing  I  had  ever  before  witnessed : 
only  think  of  such  multitudes  of  immortal  souls,  saved  in 
the  short  space  of  four  months !  I  have  sometimes  feared  I 
shall  never  again  see  such  another  work.  Blessed  be  God, 
a  revival  has  commenced  in  BirminghaiD,  «Iso ;  it  is  going 
on  in  great  power,  and  there  is  a  proapeot  of  having 
thousands  saved.    Hallelujah  I 


4T 


-■^^•4mm 


' 


4" 


CHAPTER    XXIV. 

OLOBB  OF  MB.  OAtJGHBT'S  LABOBS  IN  BNGLAKD. 

With  the  prececQng  chapter  we  exhausted  Mr.  Caughey's 
published  "  Letters  "  of  their  revival  notices.  He  intends  at 
some  future  time  to  issue  another  volume,  containing  notes 
of  his  continental  tour,  and  of  his  subsequent  movements  in 
England.  But  as  that  is  not  yet  out,  we  must  be  content  to 
give  the  reader  a  hasty  sketch  of  his  further  movements,  up 
to  the  time  of  his  return  to  America,  from  a  pamphlet  pub- 
lished in  London,  in  1847,  and  written  by  a  Wesleyan  Meth- 
odist. We  be^  witii  tins  writer's  narrative  where  the  last 
chapter  concluded,  viz. :  at  the  close  of  the  SheflSeld  revival. 

Mr.  Caughey  concluded  his  labors  in  Sheffield  on  the  8tb 
of  September,  (1844,)  and  in  a  few  days  started  on  a  tour 
upon  the  Continent,  an  account  of  which  will  form  a  consid- 
erable portion  of  the  volumes  he  is  understood  to  be  prepar- 
ing for  the  press.  He  visited  many  of  the  celebrated  cities 
and  scenes  of  France  and  Italy,  gathered  information  and 
illustrations  for  his  work  of  "  soul  saving  "  as  he  proceeded, 
and,  by  the  blessmg  of  God,  recruited  his  health.  It  is  said 
that  when  at  the  top  of  St.  Peter's,  at  Home,  he  lingered 
behind  the  company  with  which  he  ascended,  and,  in  the  pri- 
vacy thus  obtMned,  for  a  short  season,  poured  out  his  soul  ui 
*ervent  prayer  for  the  destruction  of  popery  and  the  convor- 
418 


f 


IN  SSQLA3XD, 

ted  Mr.  Caughey'a 
es.  He  intends  at 
),  containing  notes 
[uent  movements  in 
must  be  content  to 
l^er  movements,  up 
m  a  pamphlet  pub- 
r  a  Wesleyan  Meth- 
,tive  where  the  last 
le  ShefiBeld  revival. 

Sheffield  on  the  8th 
fs  started  on  a  tour 
,  will  form  a  consid- 
retood  to  be  prepar- 
bhe  celebrated  cities 
3d  information  and 
"  as  he  proceeded, 
3  health.  It  is  said 
Rome,  he  lingered 
ded,  and,  in  the  pri- 
oured  out  lus  soul  in 
»ery  and  the  convc^ 


CLOSB  OP  ME.  CAUaHEY's  LABORS  IN  ENGLAND.    419 

sion  of  its  benighted  votaries  and  victims.  He  returned  to 
England  on  the  15th  of  November,  and  after  spending  a  few 
days  in  London,  —  where  he  preached  once  in  the  Spitalfielda 
Wesleyan  chapel,  when  about  twenty  souls  were  saved, — 
proceeded  to  Sheffield,  enjoyed  some  opportunities  of  happy 
intercourse  with  his  old  friends  there,  and  then  went  to  Hud. 
dersfield,  to  fulfil  the  engagement  he  made  at  the  time  the 
friends  of  that  town  relinqiushed  their  claim  in  favor  of 
Sheffield. 

The  Huddersfield  special  services  commenced  on  Sunday, 
December  the  1st,  and  were  continued  until  thebe^nningof 
April,  1845.  After  a  tremendous  conflict  with  the  powers 
of  darkness,  the  work  of  salvation  proceeded  with  signal  snc- 
cuaC!,  and  mightily  prevailed  against  all  opposing  influences. 
In  one  of  the  services,  a  young  man,  deaf  and  dumb,  came 
under  the  divine  influence.  Qod.  first  converted  a  companion 
of  lus,  who  could  converse  ^th  him  by  signs,  and  who  then 
preached  Jesus  to  the  "  dummy  "  with  his  fingers.  The  in- 
cident was  deeply  affecting  and  interesting,  and  in  the  end 
the  youth  was  saved  gloriously. 

At  the  close  of  tho  Huddei-sfield  "campugn,"  Mr.  Caogbey's 
health  was  seriously  affected ;  and  he  was  glad  to  seek  pri 
vacy  for  a  short  season,  with  a  select  company  of  Christian 
friends,  at  Thorp  Arch,  and  also  at  the  hospitable  manmon  of 
B.  Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Mirfield,  near  Dewsbury.  During  Qio 
sucoeecUng  two  months,  he  made  ezcurnons  to  Wakdield, 
Huddersfield,  laverpool,  Sheffield,  and  Hull,  at  each  of  which 
places  many  souls  were  saved ;  and  on  the  14th  of  June, 
arrived  in  York,  to  commence  special  services  there  on  the 
mommg  of  Sunday,  the  15th. 

York  having  been  favored  with  a  very  extensive  revii«I  of 
reli^on  three  or  four  years  previously,  Mr.  Oau^^gnMH 
tering  upon  Ids  labors  in  this  ancient  city,  felt  a  fear  i 


111 


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Mm 


420  CLOSE  OF  MB.  OAVOHBT'S  LABORS  IN  BKGLAin). 

ought  be  stepping  out  of  lus  right  path,  and  lest  Ins  succesaes 
ahould  bo  inferior  to  those  he  had  experienced  in  some  other 
places.    Either  this  apprehension,  or  some  other  imdefined 
cause,  operated  for  a  time  ^th  a  depressing  influence  on  his 
Binrit.    By  the  ndddle  of  July,  the  number  saved  vas  about 
ax  hundred ;  but,  up  to  that  time,  he  could  seldom  occupy 
more  tiian  half  an  hour  Ttith  lus  sermon.    "  Some  think,"  he 
says  in  a  letter  to  a  Mend,  "  I  can  preach,  and  others  think 
the  contrary ;  and  I  leave  them  to  settle  it  among  them,  and 
Bc  the  work  goes  on."     It  is  certain,  however,  l^at  he  soon 
rose  above  Ms  fears.     He  had  reason  to  feel  that  he  was  in 
his  right  place.    Here  was  a  people  prepared  at  once  to 
enter  into  his  plans.    He  met  with  an  almost  unexampled 
unanimity  of  ooH>peration  on  the  part  of  all  the  preachers  on 
the  circuit,  togeUier  with  the  officers  and  principal  members 
of  the  society.    One  sentiment  seemed  to  pervade  all  classes 
as  to  the  greatness  of  the  work  wluch  God  was  working 
among  them. 

After  spending  a  few  weeks  m  the  smaller  places  of  wor- 
ship in  the  city,  and  when  he  had  fully  commenced  his  labors 
in  that  spacious  and  elegant  structure,  the  Centenary  Chapel, 
the  effects  of  his  ministry  began  to  be  strikingjly  manifest.    It 
may  also  be  doubted  whether  he  ever  rose  to  lofder  heights 
of  eloqueneei  or  uttered  more  impressive  appeals,  than  dur- 
ing some  of  the  services  in  this  chapel.    The  following  re- 
marks occur  in  the  manuscript  journal  of  one  who  observed 
him  narrowly :     "  On  July  21st,  1846,  heard  the  Rev. 
James  Caughey  preach  in  the  Centenary  Chapel  at  York. 
The  text  was,    *  It  pleased  the  Father  that  in  him  should 
all  fidness  dwell.'    Of  all  the  numerous  slanders  that  have 
been  propagated  conoenung  this  extraordinary  man,  surely 
one  of  the  most  senseless  is  that  which  lays  to  lus  charge  that 
Christ,  in  his  preaching,  is  not  exalted,  and  sometimes  not 


1 


er  XNGLANI). 

I  lest  Us  successes 
iced  in  some  other 
e  other  undefined 
ig  influence  on  his 
»r  saved  was  about 
lid  seldom  occupy 
"Some  think,"  he 
ii,  and  others  think 
b  among  them,  and 
rever,  tbat  he  soon 
feel  that  he  was  in 
spared  at  once  to 
hnost  unexampled 

II  the  preachers  on 
principal  members 
pervade  all  classes 
God  was  working 

ller  places  of  wor- 
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Centenary  Chapel, 
dngly  manifest.    It 
e  to  loftier  heights 
appeals,  than  dur- 
The  following  re- 
*  one  who  observed 
»,  heard  the  Rev. 
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r  that  in  him  should 
slanders  that  have 
■dinary  man,  surely 
{TS  to  his  charge  that 
and  sometimes  not 


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CLOSE  OF  MR.   CAUOHET'S  LABORS  UX  MULAND.    421 

«ven  named.  I  have  heard  most  of  the  celebrated  ministers 
of  the  present  day,  but  I  cannot,  at  this  moment,  call  to 
mmd  any  instance  m  which  I  have  heard  the  glories  of  the 
Redeemer  so  magnified  as  in  this  morning's  discourse.  There 
were  passages  where  the  preacher  inferred  the  divimty  of 
the  Saviour's  person  from  the  peculiar  manner  in  which  some 
of  his  miracles  were  wrought,  which  gave  me  the  best  idea  I 
have  ever  obtained  of  the  manner  and  eflfect  of  WUtefield's 
preachmg,  so  far  as  they  are  recorded.  The  whole  congre- 
gation seemed,  in  reality,  to  be  at  once  'moved, as  the  trees 
of  the  wood  are  moved  with  the  wind.' " 

In  about  three  months,  two  thousand  persons  professed  to 
have  received  good  imder  Mr.  Caugjhey's  ministiry.  These 
included,  of  course,  many  from  the  surrounding  district,  and 
not  a  few  from  other  bodies  of  Christians.* 

While  in  Tork,  the  second  volume  of  lus  "  Letters  "  was 
published,  and  had  an  extensive  sale ;  about  8,000  copies 
being  ordered  before  it  was  issued. 

From  York  Mr.  Caughey  retired  to  Scarborough,  to  obtain 
a  little  rest;  but  the  good  people  there  prevailed  upon  him 
to  preach  several  times,  with  the  hearty  sanction  of  tiie  Rev. 
John  Walsh,  the  Superintendent,  and  nearly  two  hundred 
were  saved.  After  a  week's  stay,  he  left  Soarborou^  on 
the  8tix  of  October,  and  visited  in  succesnon  Huddersfieldt 
Sheffield,  Chesterfield,  (a  fortnight,  seven  hundred  and  thirty 
saved,)  Doncaster,  (a  week,  five  hundred  and  twenty-ai; 
saved,)  York,  (to  take  leave,)  Huddersfield,  Howley,  Sheep 

*  Jn»t  fled  from  the  world,  942 ;  in  society,  878 ;  total  justified,  1814. . JSCimo-  '' 
tifled,  727.  Total  3041.  Of  those  justified  ftom  the  world,  345  were  back* 
•Uden,  many  of  them  of  eight,  ten,  twelve,  and  some  even  twmty  yean 
■tandinff.  Tbeee  were  questioned  as  to  tho  caum  of  their  fiJl.  Of  the  malM 
threo  fourths  referred  tlieir  downfall  to  intoxicating  drink ;  the  females,  in  a 
minority  of  instances,  referred  theirs  to  "  marrying  an  ungodly  partner,"  or 
"  angaging  as  aerTant  in  an  irreligious  fiiroily." 

86 


MIM 


rtUT' 


422    OLOSB  OF  MB.   CAUGHEY'S   LABORS  IN  BNQLAND. 

bridge,  and  Macclesfield,  (a  week,  four  hundred  saved ;)  nnd 
arrived  at  thp  mansion  of  John  Wright,  Esq.,  Spark  Brook 
House,  Bimungham,  on  the  6th  of  December,  at  the  earnest 
solicitation  of  the  Rev.  Alexander  Bell,  Chairman  of  the 
District,  and  the  Hev.  George  Turner,  Superintendent  of  the 
Birmingham  West  Circuit. 

Five  months'  special  services  in  Binmngham  (occasionally 
interrupted  by  ill  health.  Missionary  meetings,  and  a  short 
visit  to  Huddersfield  and  Sheffield)  resulted  in  the  salvation 
of  between  two  and  three  thousand  sinners.  It  was  a  nughty 
work,  and  tasked  the  energies  of  Mr.  Caughey  to  the  utmost. 
Still  he  came  out  of  the  battle  invigorated  both  in  body  and 
mind.  The  following  haaty  note,  written  at  the  close  of  the 
"  campaign,"  will  be  interestmg  for  two  reasons, — it  gives  a 
rapid,  U^tning-like  glance  into  the  intense  heart  of  the 
writer,  and  is  a  fair  specimen  of  the  off-hand  sort  of  corre- 
spondence he  carries  on  with  hia  bosom  friends  during  the 
progress  of  a  revival. 

"BlEMINGHAM,  MaY  7,  1846. 

"Mt  dear  Brother , 

"I  preached  my  farewell  last  night.  Tesrmeeting  for 
leaders  to-mght,  and  to-morrow  mght.  About  four  thou- 
sand two  hundred  saved,  in  both  blessings.*  To  God 
be'  all  the  praise  and  glory!  My  health  is  better  than 
•when  I  came.  Tins  is  of  God  also.  My  soul  is  happy,  and 
deeply  humble  before  God.  Nottingham  on  Sabbath  the  10th, 
if  all  be  well.  When  shall  I  see  you?  I  preached  out  of 
town  and  out  of  doors  last  Sabbath  to  a  multitude  of  colliers 
—  X80  collections  for  a  chapel,  but  not  quite  fifty  saved.  I 
do  littte  m  scattering  shot  here  and  there.   As  ever,  in  Jesus, 

"Jambs  Cauohey. 

«  P.  S.  I  write  tins  at  Dr.  Melson's.  Farewell.  J.  0." 
.*  PudOB  and  VwAty. 


ii»iwi-Hnmi"ijm'ji'i>!WJ.M-":..-"^>"*'- 


IN  ENQLAND. 

indred  saved ;)  and 
Esq.,  Spark  Brook 
uber,  at  the  earnest 
1,  Chwrman  of  the 
ipeiintendent  of  the 

tgham  (occasionally 
etings,  and  a  short 
ted  in  the  salvation 
•8,  It  was  a  mighty 
ighey  to  the  utmost, 
d  both  in  body  and 
.  at  the  close  of  the 
•easons,  —  it  gives  a 
tense  heart  of  the 
hand  sort  of  corre- 
fnends  during  the 


t,  May  7,  1846. 

b.    Tea-meeting  for 

About  fourthou- 

essmgs.*     To  (Jod 

alth  is  better  than 

[y  soul  is  happy,  and 

onSabbailithelOth, 

I  preached  out  of 

multitude  of  colliers 

qtute  fifty  saved.    I 

i.   As  ever,in  JesoR, 

James  Gauqebt. 

Farewell.   J.O." 


CLOBB  OF  ME.  CAUGUEY'S  LABORS  IK  BNQLAND   428 

The  revival  in  Nottingham  was  more  glorious  than  all. 
Mr.  Caughey  opened  his  commission  there  on  the  10th  of 
May,  1846,  and  in  the  short  space  of  one  month  upwards  of 
fourteen  hundred  were  converted  to  God.  Sunday,  the  31st 
of  May,  and  two  days  following,  Mr.  Caughey  speut  at 
Castle  Dounington,  and  one  hundred  and  eighty  persons  were 
converted  to  God.  He  then  returned  to  Nottingham,  and 
completed  his  engagement  on  the  12th  of  June. 

Lincoln  then  enjoyed  the  benefit  of  his  labors  for  a  fort- 
night, during  wluch  three  hundred  and  sixty-eight  were 
brought  over  from  the  ranks  of  Satan,  and  two  hundred  and 
eighty-three  professed  to  experience  sanctifying  grace.  From 
thence  he  went  to  Boston,  where  he  wrote,  "  The  devil  has 
met  me  on  the  low  grounds  of  Lincolnshire  as  Napoleon  met 
Wellington  on  the  plains  of  Belgium.  Never  have  I  had 
Buch  a  flailing  from  the  public  papers."  The  enemy,  how- 
ever, suffered  a  signal  overthrow,  and  about  four  hundred 
were  saved. 

Passing  through  Sheffield,  on  the  23d  of  July,  Mr. 
Caughey  proceeded  to  Borrowaah,  near  Derby,  and  to  Not- 
tingham, to  preach  occasional  sermons ;  and  returning  to  the 
north,  arrived  in  Sunderland  m  time  to  commence  special 
services  on  Sunday,  August  2d,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Rev. 
W.  Horton,  the  Superintendent. 

There  was  a  great  work  in  Sunderland.  At  first  it  moved 
slowly ;  bat  gathering  momentum  as  it  proceeded,  it  resulted 
in  the  salvation  of  mne  hundred  and  thirty-eight  persons  in 
somewhat  less  than  five  weeks.  Of  these,  seven  hundred  and 
eleven  were  cases  of  justification,  that  is,  three  hundred  and 
sixty  who  had  previously  been  members  of  society,  and  three 
hundred  and  fifty-one  sinners  and  backsliders.  At  South 
Shields  also,  which  Mr.  Caughey  visited  one  Sabbath  during 
his  stay  in  Sunderiand,  about  seventy  were  saved,  many  of 
*  em  backsliders.    When,  on  the  4th  of  September,  he  ynm 


i 


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ma 


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I 


424    CLOSE  07  MB.  OAUQHET'S  LABORS  IN  ENOLAND. 

preparing  to  leave  Sunderland,  the  members  of  society  pre- 
sented a  petition  to  their  Superintendent  urgently  roquestmg 
him  to  invite  Mr.  Caughey  to  visit  the  circuit  again. 

From  Sunderland,  Mr.  Caughey  went  to  Gateshead,  being 
invited  to  that  circuit  by  the  Rev.  S.  Dixon,  the  Supeiintend- 
ent.  Before  the  close  of  the  first  week,  one  hundred  and 
twenty-^  were  saved.  On  the  12th  of  September,  he  re- 
tired to  Scarborough,  partly  for  seclufuon,  and  partly  to 
recruit  his  health,  wUch  was  failmg. 

After  reposmg  a  while  in  Scarborough,  Mr.  Caughey  visited 
Asbum,  Eutozeter,  Birstall,  Todmorden  Vale,  and  Bourne, 
with  his  usual  success.  These  labors,  with  fl^g  visits  to 
various  other  places,  employed  the  winter  and  spring  of  1846 
and  1847.  In  July,  1847,  beUeving  it  was  the  will  of  Prov 
idenoe  he  should  return  to  America,  he  made  preparations 
for  an  Atlantic  voyage. 

Before  we  introduce  the  reader  to  the  scenes  of  that  voy- 
age we  call  lus  attention  to  the  following  undeniable  evidences 
of  the  genuineness  of  the  impression  which  induced  lum  to  go 
to  Europe.    The  voice  of  God  whispered  thus  to  his  heart : 

"  The  will  of  God  is  that  thou  sKouldst  visit  Europe.  He 
shall  be  with  thee  there,  and  give  thee  many  seals  to 
thy  ministry.  He  has  provided  thee  with  funds.  Make  thy 
arrangements  accordingly;  and  next  Conference,  ask  liberty 
from  the  proper  authorii  as,  and  it  shall  be  granted  thee. 
Vint  Canada  first ;  when  this  is  done,  sail  for  England. 
God  shall  be  with  thee  there — thou  shalt  have  no  want  in 
all  thy  joumeyings,  and  thou  shalt  be  brought  back  in  safety 
to  America." 

Such  was  the  "  call."  Behold  the  verification  of  its  partis 
nlars  up  to  the  time  of  his  departure  from  England,  in  the  fol 
lowing  statements,  taken  from  the  before-mentioned  pamphlet 


-  iiii'iiriliiiiia*iwMiiiiiwiii 


[N   ENaLANO. 

era  of  society  pre- 
irgontly  requesting 
uit  again. 
[>  Gateshead,  being 
i,the  Superintend- 
one  hundred  and 
September,  he  re> 
»n,  and  partly  to 

X.  Caughey  visited 
^alo,  and  Bourne, 
itb  flying  vi^ts  to 
and  spring  of  1846 
ts  the  will  of  Prov- 
Qoade  preparationa 

cenes  of  that  voy- 
ieniable  eTidences 
induced  lum  to  go 
thus  to  his  heart : 

visit  Europe.  He 
ie  many  seals  to 
funds.  Make  thy 
srcnce,  ask  liberty 
be  granted  thee, 
sail  for  England, 
have  no  want  in 
ght  back  in  safety 


ation  of  its  partis 
England,  in  the  fol 
sntioned  pamphlet 


CLOSE  OP  MR.   CAUaHBT'S  LABORS  IN  BNQLAND.     425 

The  terms  of  Mr.  Caughey's  "  call,"  as  previously  quoted, 
are  directive  and  predictive. 

Ist.  IHrective.  — "  These  matters  which  trouble  thee 
must  be  lot  entirely  alone.  The  will  of  God  is  that  thou 
shouldst  vbit  Europe.  He  has  provided  thee  with  funds. 
Make  thy  arrangements  accordingly  ;  and,  next  Conference, 
ask  liberty  from  the  proper  authorities.  Visit  Canada  first ; 
when  this  is  done,  sail  for  England."  These  directions 
scarcely  call  for  remark,  except  on  the  subject  of  funds. 
Mr.  Caughey  informs  us  that  he  had  "  funds  sufl5cient  for  a 
two  years'  tour ; "  and  that  he  intended  « to  spend  at  least 
two  years  in  Europe."  It  is  now  nearly  six  years  since  he 
landed  in  Liverpool,  having  spent  the  previous  ten  months  in 
Canada. 

2d.  Predictive.  —  "  He  shall  gjve  thee  many  seals  to  thy 
ministry.  Liberty  fi-om  the  proper  authorities  shall  be  grant- 
ed thee.  God  shaU  be  with  thee  in  England— thou  shalt 
have  no  want  in  all  thy  joumeyings,  and  thou  shalt  be  brought 
back  in  safety  to  America."  It  has  been  seen  that  Mr. 
Caughey  had  no  difficulty  in  obtaining  leave  of  absence  from 
his  Conference.    The  remaining  points  must  now  be  noticed. 

^^SethaUgive  thee  many  aeaU  to  thy  minittry."— Mr. 
Caughey's  numstry  in  Canada  was  eminently  successful ; 
but  as  I  have  no  authorized  report,  besides  his  own  statement 
of  the  results,  I  will  lay  no  stress  upon  them.  What  they 
have  been  in  England  we  know,  and  have  the  lughest  con- 
nexional  authority  to  asast  us  in  proving.  According  to 
the  Minutes  of  Conference,  the  increase  to  the  principal  so- 
cieties wWch  have  been  favored  with  Mr.  Caughey's  labors 
was,  in  Liverpool,  404 ;  in  Leei:,  529  ;  in  Hull,  985 ;  m 
{Sheffield,  864 ;  in  Huddersfield,  749  ;  in  York,  210 ;  and  in 
Chssterfield,  230.  The  Birmingham  Society  had  an  inprease 
of  668  at  the  Michaelmas  Quarter-day,  1846,  as  compared 
36* 


i 


■iiiN 


428    0L08H  OF  MR.  OAUQHEY'S  LABORS  IN  BNGLAOT). 

with  the  Minutes  of  1845 ;  and  m  every  other  town  he  has 
visited  there  has  been  a  correspondmg  increaao.  But  this 
statement  only  shows  the  local  efiFect  of  Mr.  Caughey's  labors. 
Numbers  of  persons  have  travelled  ten,  twenty,  thirty,  and 
even  fifty  miles,  to  obtain  the  benefits  of  the  revivals  which 
his  ministry  originated,  and  returned  home  rejoicing  in  the 
salvation  of  the  gospel.  In  fact,  the  return  to  Conference 
does  not  represent  one  half  the  actual  good  effected  in  the 
conversion  of  sinners,  as  the  following  statement,  drawn  up 
from  authentic  sources,  will  show : 

JtutUM. 

•  Dublin 700  •  . 

•  Limerick 180  .  . 

•  Cork 800  .  . 

•  Bandon 70  .  . 

•  Liverpool isOO  .  . 

•  Leeds jaoo  .  , 

•  Hull 2800  .  . 

Sheffield 886S  .  . 

Huddersfleld 1870  .  . 

York 1814  .  . 

•  Binnioghom 2800  .  . 

Nottingham 1412  .  . 

Lincoln 868  .   . 

•  Boston 260  .  . 

Sunderland 711  .  . 

•  Gateshead 80  .  . 

•  Scarborough 184  .  . 

Chesterfield .      699  .  . 

Doncaster 866  .  . 

•  Macclesfield 260  .   . 

•  Wakefield 200  .  . 

•  Various  visits,  London,  Leeds,  Hull, 
Shefileld,  Huddersfleld,  Manchester, 
Belper,  and  places  in  Derbyshire, 
Nottinghamshin,  Yorkshire,  L«noa>- 
Bhire,  &c.,  at  a  moderato  computa- 
tion   1800  .  .  , 


Banctlfled. 

.     100  . 

.       80  .  . 

■       60  .  . 

.       20  .  . 

•     400  .   , 

.    1000  .   , 

.     000  .  . 

.    1448  .  . 

.     766  .   . 

.     727  .   . 

1400  .  . 

663  .  . 

288  .  . 

140  .  . 

287  .  . 

46  .  . 

66  .  . 

137  .  . 

170  .  . 

140  .  . 

180  .  . 


Total. 

800 

160 

860 

00 

1700 

2600 

8200 

4600 

2684 

9041 

«200 

1866 

661 

400 

988 

12s 

200 

780 

626 

400 

8W 


600 


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tfian  over  the  truth,    I  have  not  succeeded  in  obtaining  partiouUr  oor^Mntk 


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r.  Gaughej'a  labors, 
twenty,  thirty,  and 
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turn  to  Conference 
H)d  effected  in  the 
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80 160 

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20 90 

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1000 2600 

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1"8 4800 

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0L08B  OJ  MR.   OAUQUBT'B  LABORS  IM  BKQLAin).    427 

Thus  there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that  in  England  alone 
Mr.  Caughoy's  ministry  has  been  the  means  of  turning  more 
than  twenty  thousand  persons  from  darkness  to  light,  fi;m 
sin  unto  holiness.  I  have  nothing  here  to  do  with  the  allege- 
ment  that  many  of  these  may  have  become  backsliders :  the 
Church  has  had  to  mourn  over  such  over  rince  the  days  of 
the  AposUes.  I  stand  upon  the  great  fact,  that  unusual 
numbers  of  sinners  have  been  converted  to  God  in  conse- 
quence of  Mr.  Caughey's  special  call  to  visit  England ;  that 
many,  very  many  of  these  remtun  steadfest  and  blameless 
to  the  present  day ;  and  that  this  is  in  strict  accordance 
with,  and  a  literal  fulfilment  of,  the  terms,  predictive  and 
otherwise,  of  that  call,  which  was  comnutted  to  writing  be- 
fore Mr.  Caughey  left  the  United  States,  and  published  in 
this  country  ahnost  at  the  commencement  of  the  period  of 
his  greatest  success. 

"  Thou  ahalt  have  no  toant  in  all  thy  joumeyingt" —  "  The 
possession  of  a  few  hundreds  of  dollars,"  said  Mr.  Caughey, 
in  August,  1840,  referring  to  a  period  anterior  to  his  call  to 
visit  Europe,  "  had  often  made  me  very  uneasy.    I  doubted 
the  propriety  of  laying  up  treasure  on  earth.    The  cause  of 
missions  stood  in  need  of  what  I  possessed,  but  still  I  was 
restrained.    Now  I  clearly  saw  that  God  had  provided  me 
witii  these  funds  in  order  to  make  me  willing  to  obey  the  call, 
and  to  save  me  from  embarrassment  in  my  travels."    lake  a 
man  of  sense  and  prudence,  he  appears  to  have  calculated 
how  long  his  own  funds  would  support  him,  and  determined 
accordingly  the  period  of  his  tour.    He  intended  to  spend 
"at least  two  years"  in  Europe;  yet  Providence  has  so 
ordered  it  that,  though  he  has  been  nearly  six  years  in  these 
kingdoms,  and  since  his  arrival  lost  nearly  all  the  money  he 
brought  witii  him  by  the  bankruptcy  of  the  party  with  whom 
,t  was  deposited,  he  has  had  "  no  want ; "  his  revival  ope^ 


428    CLOSE  OF  MR.   OAUQUEY'S  LABORS  IN  ENOLAND. 

ations  have  never  been  impeded  for  lack  of  funds ;  and  thus 
the  prediction  has  been  fulfilled  to  the  letter. 

"  Thau  ahalt  be  brought  back  in  mftty  to  America." — 
This,  it  will  be  seen  by  the  next  chapter,  was  fulfilled  also. 
Who  ever  had  afalee  impression  so  significantly  sustained  by 
the  providence  of  God  as  was  this  call  of  Mr.  C.  ?  Not  one. 
What  then  is  the  irresistible  conclusion  ?  Why,  clearly,  that 
Mr.  Caoghey's  commisEuon  was  of  Qod. 


^■••»-.>-7rnP5inSSHMi 


IBff^'lw^ 


IN  ENOIiAND. 

c  of  funds ;  and  thiu 
stter. 

ety  to  America."— 
ir,  was  ftilfilled  also, 
ificantlj  sustiunedby 
'Mr.  C?  Not  one. 
Why,  clearly,  that 


CHAPTER    XXV. 

THB  VOTAQB  HOHB. 

The  following  letter  to  some  of  Mr.  Caughey's  HuJders- 
field  friends,  written  on  his  arrival  in  New  York,  gives  a 
Tery  unique  account  of  his  homeward  voyage.  It  will  bo 
read  with  deep  interest. 

3b  Mema.  Joseph  WM  and  Thomas  Mallinton,  of 
Sudderafield. 

New  York,  Nov.  8, 184T. 
Mt  dear  Brethren, 

On  the  20th  day  of  July,  184T,  after  taking  a  most 
tender  farewell  of  a  large  number  of  precious  friends,  who 
had  accompanied  me  on  board  the  steamer  Hibemia,  that 
noble  vessel  weighed  anchor,  and  "  stood  down "'  the  Mersey. 
With  a  deeply  affected  heart  I  watched  the  motions  of  the 
small  steamer  which  bore  my  friends  to  the  shore  —  friends 
dear  to  my  soul  — who,  to  the  last  hour  of  my  footsteps  on 
British  soil,  to  the  last  moment  of  our  parting,  lavished  up<m 
me  the  tokens  of  their  boundless  affection. 

"There  are  inomento  In  life  that  are  never  forgot, 
Which  brighten,  and  brighten,  as  time  steals  away  ;— 
O  !  theee  hallowed  remembrances  cannot  decay } 
But  they  come  on  the  sonl  with  a  magical  thrill ; 
And  in  days  that  are  darkest  they  kindly  will  stay, 
And  the  heart  In  its  last  throb  will  beat  with  them  sfflL" 

423 


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I 


430 


THE  VOYAGE  HOHB. 


But,  alas !  that  was  a  sad,  sad  day ;  and  had  it  not  been 
for  the  hope  of  meeting  these  beloved  ones  again,  upon 
earth,  I  should  have  been  heart-broken.  My  straining 
eyes  followed  the  little  steamer,  till  it  was  lost  to  recognition 
among  other  boats ;  and  when  I  no  longer  knew  the  one 
around  which  my  affections  should  entwine,  wandering  vision 
found  repose  upon  Liverpool,  where  I  knew  that  not  a  few 
of  my  spiritual  cliildren  resided,  and  in  whose  streets  many 
of  my  friends  had  arrived,  with  whom  I  had  parted  an  hour 
or  two  before.  Liverpool  at  length  disappeared,  and  lastly, 
the  bappy  shores  of  England  itself — "that  little  world, 
that  precious  stone,  set  like  on  unfading  emerald  in  the 
silver  sea,"  as  one  of  her  own  poets  has  expressed  it ;  and 
I  was  left  alone  to  my  own  reflections.  My  mind  was 
greatly  confused  and  agitated ;  seemed  as  if  awaking  firom 
a  troubled  dream.  "  I  have  finished  the  work,  0  Lord,  thou 
hast  ^ven  me  to  do.  If  thou,  Lord,  shouldst  say,  *  Nay,' 
the  responsibility  must  rest  somewhere  else  than  upon  thy 
poor  servant.  Longer  I  could  not  have  stayed  in  England, 
without  rendering  myself  like  thee,  my  Master, — 'a  stone 
of  stumbling,  and  rock  of  offence;' — not  to  the  wicked 
world,  but  t}  some  good  men,  whose  prejudices,  and  attach- 
ment to  church  order,  would  not  allow  them  to  appreciate 
my  works  and  motives.  By  remaining  longer  on  those 
shores,  now  lost,  perhaps  forever,  to  my  eyes,  more  evil  than 
good,  all  things  considered,  would  most  likely  have  resulted. 
Farewell,  England!  'sunshine  gilds  no  coast  where  God 
is  served  more  purely  than  in  thee!'  Farewell,  Ireland! 
where  I  have  seen  many  hundreds  of  sinners  converted; 
— afflicted,  distracted  Ireland;  'the  place  where  first  wo 
breathed,  who  can  forget?'  Farewell,  Zion!  Farewell, 
friends  of  my  heart!  — '  hearts  in  union  mutuaUy  disclosed.* 

'  Hearts  that  the  'world  in  vain  has  tried, 
And  sorrow  bnt  more  closely  tied ; '  -^ 


''mmw;i'?'\ 


'i.i^^Ai^M!-^- 


m:!.r^!triv'm'>Kf>'mv-'imm'.»'JWhsuumiM,w.i 


fi)r^ifii|i^Wri¥"W"jil'.'ii!iiiy>ii 


THE  VOYAGE  HOME. 


481 


and  had  it  not  been 
d  ones  again,  upon 
)ken.  My  straining 
'as  lost  to  recognition 
>nger  knew  the  one 
ine,  wandering  vision 
knew  that  not  a  few 
n  whose  streets  many 
[  had  parted  an  hour 
ippeared,  and  lastly, 
-"that  little  world, 
ling  emerald  in  the 
Eks  expressed  it ;  and 
)ns.     My  mind  was 

aa  if  awaking  from 
9  work,  0  Lord,  thou 
shouldst  say,  'Nay,' 

else  than  upon  thy 
;  stayed  in  England, 
y  Master, — '  a  stone 
-not  to  the  wicked 
ejudices,  and  attach- 
ir  them  to  appreciate 
ing  longer  on  those 
eyes,  more  evil  than 
likely  have  resulted. 
QO  coast  where  God 
Farewell,  Ireland! 
*  sinners  converted; 
)lace  where  first  wo 
11,  Zion!  Farewell, 
t  mutually  disclosed.' 

ks  tried, 
idi'-^ 


To  you,  a  tearful  agonizing  farewell !  And  farewell,  poor 
perishing  sinners,  whom  I  would  fain  have  brought  into  the 
path  to  heaven,  by  thousands,  and  hundreds  of  thousands. 
Farewell,  ye  men  of  God !  ye  ministers  of  his,  ye  local 
preachers  and  leaders,  officers  of  Emmanuel's  hosts,  who 
helped  me  often  to  push  the  battle  to  the  gates,  and  to  shcut 
the  victory  close  by  the  trembling  gates  of  hell.  Farewell ! 
farewell !  my  children  in  the  Lord ;  the  seal  of  my  apostle- 
ehip  are  ye  in  the  Lord ;  whom  I  found  in  the  hand  of  the 
enemy,  led  captive  by  him  at  his  will,  and  whom  I  left 
in  thy  care,  0  blessed  Jesus !  chief  Shepherd,  and  Bishop 
of  souls.  Keep  t'lem,  0  Saviour,  from  the  evils  which  are 
in  the  world !  may  none  of  them  backslide  from  thee,  or 
dishonor  thy  cause.  Amen ! "  More  I  cannot  describe 
upon  paper.  The  lights  on  the  Isle  of  Man  appeared  about 
twilight,  and  shortly  after  the  quarter  moon  went  down 
behind  a  bonk  of  cloud.  The  evening  was  pleasant,  with  a 
placid  sea,  which  suited  the  state  of  my  weak  body  and 
mind. 

"  Soft  hour  1  which  makes  the  wish,  and  melts  the  heart 
Of  those  who  sail  the  seas,  on  the  first  day 
When  they  from  their  sweet  friends  are  torn  apart." 

I  walked  the  deck  till  a  late  hour,  lost  in  thought ;  — 
*^ thoughts  of  the  heart,  how  soft  ye  flow!  mournful  and 
iweet,  as  music's  dying  fall;" — fraught  with  many  a 
troasorod  hope,  and  tender  memory,  darting  to  re^ons 
afar;  now  with  lately-parted  friends,  and  th<^  uext  moment 
with  expectant  friends  in  North  America.  Both  hemi- 
spheres were  visited,  quicker  than  the  scintillations  of  the 
Aurora  Borealit.  My  whole  being  had,  »  it  were,  resolved 
itsolf  mto  memory,  —  "an  ocean  of  mem .  les."  Some  one 
has  termed  the  memory,  i!.e  image  chamber  of  the  wul. 
Mine  was  that,  truly ;  and  many  images  were  there,  and 


482 


THE  VOTAQE  BOMB. 


I 


mngled  pictures,  "like  broken  scenery  mirrored  on  tho 
8ur&ce  of  a  troubled  stream."  Some  were  delightfully 
pleaEong,  because  associated  with  the  expectation  of  soon 
mingling  my  tears  of  joy  with  thos^  of  long-tried  fiiends  in 
America;  while  others  were  oppresmvely  sad,  on  account 
of  friends  I  nught  possibly  meet  no  more  upon  earth ;  and 
these  crossed  each  other  and  intermingled,  "as  rich  sunr 
beams  and  dark  bursts  of  rain  meet  in  the  sky."  Bat 
enough  of  this. 

"  The  dangers  I  had  'soaped,  the  broken  nuue, 
The  disappointed  foe,  deliverance  found 
Unlocked  for,  life  preserved,  and  peace  restored, 
Fmits  of  omnipotent  eternal  love," 

called  for  loudest  songs  of  praise.  "  Bless  the  Lord,  0  my 
soul!" 

The  foUomng  mormng  we  were  running  along  the  northern 
coast  of  Ireland,  "  ita  weather-beaten  and  bleached  rocka 
from  the  green  waves  emerging."  At  the  close  of  day  land 
had  almost  disappeared. 

"Away!  away  we  steer, 

Upon  the  ooean'a  breast. 
And  dim  the  distant  heif^ts  appear 

Like  clouds  along  the  west : 
While  our  ship, — lonely  as  the  bird, 

Whose  home  is  on  the  wing,"  — 

horned  onward,  fearlessly,  into  the  bosom  of  mght.  Mom 
ing  came,  and  notlung  but  sky  and  water  appeared  around ; 
our  ship,  "poised  in  the  centre  of  a  sjjiere,"  wrestling 
hard  with  a  rolling  treacherous  sea,  "  a  worldng  sea  remain- 
ing from  a  storm,"  and  nearly  all  the  passengers  sick,  among 
whom  I  also  was  "  a  complainant."  And  old  voyagers  tjiere 
were  who  grumbled  heavily  at  the  loss  of  both  breakfast  and 
dinner,  a  thing  they  did  not  appear  to  have  been  accustomed 
to ;  relish  such  usage  they  neither  could  nor  would,  and  to 


mi»'iriffl"iiHinni'iii 


ery  mirrored  on  iho 
□ae  were  delightfully 

expectation  of  soon 
'  long-tried  friends  in 
relj  sad,  on  account 
ore  upon  earth;  and 
ingled,  "  as  rich  snn- 

m  the  sky."     But 

ken  snare, 

bond 

eaoe  restond, 

Meea  the  Lord,  0  my 

ing  along  the  nortbem 
1  and  bleached  rocks 
;  the  close  of  day  land 


appeu 
ti 

the  bird, 
*"- 

som  of  mght.  Mom 
iter  appeared  around ; 
a  sphere,"  wrestUng 
a  worldng  sea  renuun- 
passengers  sick,  aaooong 
ind  old  Toyagers  ijiere 
I  of  both  breakfast  and 
have  been  accustomed 
uld  nor  would,  and  m 


THE  VOTAOE  flOMB. 


43S 


revenged  their  afironta  by  dashing  most  vociferously,  and 
without  a  word  of  apology,  the  whole  of  "stomach  contents" 
directly  in  the  face  of  the  sea,  "  fearless  of  old  ocean's  face 
Dr  thundering  frown."  During  three  or  four  days  there 
were  some  sturdy  contests  of  this  kind,  between  the  haughty 
sea  and  stubborn  passengers,  and  many  an  interchange  of 
mutual  affronts.  A  few  retired  from  the  scene  of  conflict, 
concealing  their  defeat  between  decks ;  others,  with  myself, 
scorned  to  retreat  till  it  could  be  done  "  with  good  grace," 
under  cover  of  night.  The  day  passed  tediously  away; 
xught  came,  and  so  did  morning,  bleak  and  dreaiy  enough ; 
but  an  array  o^  i^ale  faces  on  deck,  proclaimed  if  we  were 
weak,  we  were  still  unconquered. 

The  sea  at  length  became  less  rude  and  more  civil.  The 
aspect  of  old  ocean  was  still  sufficiently  rugged  and  dreary, 
but  there  was  a  sensible  improvement  in  its  spirit  and  tone. 
"  The  billows  roll  mth  pleasurable  swell,"  says  some  votary 
of  the  muses.  I  wonder  if  he  was  ever  sea-sick.  The 
unecuy  swell  continued,  but  the  pulsations  of  ocean's  breast 
beat  less  heavily,  and  so  did  those  of  our  "  inner  man." 
Appetite  gradually  returned ;  there  was  a  better  muster  at 
the  saloon  table ;  but  a  few  stragglers,  among  whom  was 
your  friend,  were  content  with  a  place  on  dock,  "  under 
open  sky,"  plate  on  knee,  suspicious  of  treachert/,  fearing 
a  aurprise.  Confidence,  however,  gradually  returned ;  and 
on  the  evening  of  the  fifth  day,  there  were  some  appear- 
ances of  sociability,  for  a  most  unsocial  thing  is  this  eea- 
sickness.    The  sentiment  of  one  could  now  be  reciprocated : 

"  The  latt  line  of  light  is  now  crossing  the  ses, 
And  the  first  star  is  lighting  its  lamp  in  the  sky." 

On  Sabbath,  25th  July,  the  captain  requested  me  to 
conduct  divine  service.     Being  somewhat  out  of  order,  I 
87 


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484 


THB  VOTAOE  HOME. 


requested  him,  m  return,  to  read  prayeni,  and  I  vrould 
preach ;  which  he  did  m  a  most  devout  manner,  and  with 
good  efifect.    After  service  I  was  addressed  by  a  gentleman, 
thus :  "  Sir,  some  di4  not  like  your  sermon ;  but  I  did.    It 
was  short,  but  sweet."    Shortly  after,  a  British  officer,  on  lua 
way  to  join  his  re^ment  in  Quebec,  stepped  up,  and  said, 
"  Sir,  I  have  heard  that  to-day  wluch  I  have  been  demring 
m  vain  to  hear  during  the  last  tlurty  years — a  short  aermony 
Sir."     The  major  appeared  highly  pleased,  not  with  the 
doctrine,  nor  style  of  the  sermon,  but  with  its  brevity;  which 
io  those  versed  like  himself  in  the  woes  of  long  sermons,  he 
considered  an  absolute  luxury.    Perhaps  I  had  preached 
longer  than  the  major  was  aware ;  but  no  matter,  he  waa 
really  happy  to  find  one  man,  after  a  search  of  thirty  years, 
who  had  better  sense  than  to  weary  his  hearers.    He  then 
entered  into  a  lengthy  detail  of  his  sufferings  from  "  the 
mtolerable  infliction  of  long  sermons."     Poor  man!   his 
suffering  had  weighed  so  heavily  upon  his  nervous  sensiMlu 
tieSf  that  the  bare  remembrance  of  them  was  sufficient  to 
rouse  all  his  ener^es  into  repugnance.    He  became  really 
eloquent,  "and  every  feeling  uttered,  fully  felt;"  but, 
unfortunately,  Ws  excitement  carried  him,  perhaps,  much 
further  than  he  had  intended— "that  preacWng  might  aa 
weU  be  dispensed  with  altogether."    To  this  I  demurred, 
which  set  him  on  the  defenmve.  Finding  it  rather  difficult  to 
maintain  his  position,  he  withdrew  his  artillery,  and  retreated, 
supposing,  probably,  that  I  waa  as  guilty  aa  any  of  my  cloth 
in  "long  sermon  outrage ;"  and  he  was  not  far  mistaken. 

As  day  succeeded  day,  our  prospects  brightened.  Few 
there  were  who  were  not  cheered  by  the  anticipation  of 
meeting  frieads  on  the  approaching  shores,  and  all  seemed 
to  be  more  reconciled  to  "life  at  sea."  Our  fine  steamer 
flew  along  the  waters,  ruling  the  elementa  and  firee  wavei, 


iinjc  niipini  ici.ii ^WBMiifc|iji>W]iMiMtt!i-»J.<ll«B!UHtUIIMliUlillllllli|lailKlll»lllll 


ayers,  and  I  would 
at  manner,  and  with 
3sed  by  a  gentleman, 
non ;  but  I  cQd.  It 
British  oJQScer,  on  lus 
topped  up,  and  said, 
I  have  been  demring 
irs — a  short  aennony 
leased,  not  with  the 
ith  its  brevity;  which 

of  long  sermons,  he 
aps  I  had  preached 
at  no  matter,  he  was 
jarch  of  thirty  years, 
is  hearers.  He  then 
sufferings  &om  "the 
."  Poor  man!  hia 
his  nervout  senaiMli' 
liem  was  sufficient  to 
J.  He  became  really 
d,  fully  felt;"  but, 

him,  perhaps,  much 
t  preaching  might  as 
To  this  I  demurred, 
ig  it  rather  difficult  to 
rtillery,  and  retreated, 
ty  as  any  of  my  cloth 
as  not  far  mistaken, 
cts  brightened.  Few 
»y  the  anticipation  of 
ihores,  and  all  aeemed 
,."  Our  fine  steamer 
nentg  and  free  waveti 


TBB  VOTAOE  HOMK. 


48S 


« impelled  as  though  she  felt  a  soul  within  her  heart  of  oak ;  '* 
renunding  one  of  those  quaint  lines  of  Baleigh : 

•'  Ye  might  hare  seen  the  (Vothy  billows  fry 
Under  the  ship,  aa  throagh  them  she  went, 
Thet  seemed  the  waves  were  into  ivoiy, 
Or  ivory  into  waves  were  sent." 

On  Saturday,  the  eleventh  day  from  Liverpool,  ve  hailed 
the  shores  of  North  America,  frowning  through  the  folds  of 
a  dense  fog ;  and,  on  the  same  day,  we  entered  the  harbor 
of  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  thankful  to  our  heavenly  Fattier 
for  lus  abounding  mercies.  A  brother  recogmzed  me  as 
soon  as  I  stepped  ashore,  who  remembered  with  joy  my  visit 
in  1841.  We  enjoyed  a  pleasant  walk  through  the  city, 
returned  to  dinner  on  board,  and  after  posting  a  few  letters 
for  friends  in  England,  our  steamer  was  again  in  motion. 
The  fog  became  tMcker  than  ever,  so  as  to  render  our 
egress  from  the  harbor  hazardous ;  but  we  regained  the  sea 
in  safety,  and  steered  for  Boston,  U.  S. 

Next  day,  (Sabbath,)  the  captain  desired  me  to  officiate ; 
but  I  informed  him  there  was  a  Baptist  minister  on  board, 
and  that  Christian  courtesy  required  he  should  be  requested 
to  preach ;  and,  that  I  doubted  not  most  of  the  passengers 
would  be  highly  pleased  to  hear  him.  The  captain  kindly 
consented,  and  we  had  a  profitable  season.  A  few  were 
displeased  with  the  preacher.  The  introduction  of  the  hor^ 
rors  of  hell,  and  the  rich  man  calling  for  a  drop  of  water  to 
cool  his  tongue,  could  not  be  pardoned  in  so  polite  an  assem- 
bly. I  defended  the  good  brother  with  all  kmdness  and 
pUunness.  The  major  again  made  his  appearance,  and  I 
could  not  well  keep  my  eye  off  him,  remembering  his  mortal 
distaste  for  long  sermons;  and  felt  for  both  him  and  the 
preacher,  the  latter  not  being  aware  of  his  prejudices.  A 
few  minutes,  however,  decided  the  matter.   The  major  began 


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to  grope  about  for  his  hat ;  and  I  was  glad  to  torn  my  eye 
In  another  direction,  as  he  boldly  marched  doorward,  and 
made  his  exit ;  thinking,  doubtless,  that  when  in  the  church 
at  Qaebec,  at  the  head  of  his  regiment,  he  could  not  with  so 
"  good  grace  "  reprove  the  prolimty  of  the  preacher.  I  had 
some  liberty  in  the  concluding  prayer. 

On  the  same  night  blue  lights  were  projected  from  deck 
In  hopes  of  " signalizing"  the  outward  bound  mail  steamer; 
but  the  compliment  not  being  returned  by  the  vessel  whose 
watch-lights  had  attracted  our  attention,  we  concluded  we 
had  mistaken  the  ship.  The  night  was  dark  and  dreary ; 
but  all  were  cheered  by  the  hope  of  a  safe  arrival  at  the 
port  of  destination  on  the  morrow ;  a  hope  which  a  kind 
Providence  did  not  disappoint. 

Morning  came,  and  with  it  a  very  bad  fog.  Supposing 
land  to  be  near,  a  sharp  look-out  was  maintained  on  aU  sides. 
Guns  were  fired  at  intervals  for  a  harbor  pilot,  but  in  vain. 
We  continued  to  near  the  shore,  which  was  as  yet  but  an 
object  of  faith ;  it  might  be  within  gunshot,  or  at  a  con^d- 
erable  distance.  The  "  random  gun,"  the  heavy  plunge  of 
the  lead,  and  report  of  soundings,  had  a  solemn  effect. 
Suddenly  we  had  a  glimpse  of  rugged  rocks,  like  spectres 
starting  out  of  the  fog,  and  disappearing  again.  We  stood 
in  admiration  of  the  confidence,  prudence,  and  judgment  of 
captain,  officers,  and  men.  Our  coast  pilot,  embarrassed 
more  and  more  by  the  encompassmg  fog,  ascended  the  main- 
tnaat,  in  hopes  of  overlooking  it.  He  succeeded,  and  from 
his  giddy  position  gave  his  commands  to  the  helmsman,  who 
obeyed  his  injunctions,  in  faith,  dashing  the  vessel  headlong 
into  an  "  obscurity  that  might  be  felt,"  regardless  of  rocks 
which  frowned  sudden  terror,  and  which  as  suddenly  disap- 
peared. The  fog  dispersed ;  all  was  well ;  we  found  our- 
selves in  the  "  narrows"  leading  to  Eoston  harbor ;  and  saw 


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lad  to  torn  mj  eye 
shed  doorward,  and 
when  in  the  church 
lie  could  not  with  bo 
lie  preacher.    I  had 

)rojected  from  deck 
tound  mail  steamer; 
by  the  vessel  whose 
1,  we  concluded  we 
dark  and  dreary; 
safe  arrival  at  the 
bope  which  a  kind 

%d  fog.  Supposing 
ntained  on  aU  sides. 
r  pilot,  but  in  vain, 
was  as  yet  but  an 
shot,  or  at  a  consid- 
;he  heavy  plimge  of 
id  a  solemn  efifcct. 
rocks,  like  spectres 
r  agtun.  We  stood 
e,  and  judgment  of 

pilot,  embarrassed 
ascended  the  main- 
lucceeded,  and  from 
the  helmsman,  who 
the  vessel  headlong 
regardless  of  rocks 

as  suddenly  disap- 
roll ;  we  found  our- 
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Boston  itself,  reposmg  like  a  brilliant  gem,  enchased  within 
a  soft  and  pretty  arrangement  of  scenery ;  the  whole  lighted 
up  with  that  freshness  and  beauty  so  peculiar  to  an  American 
summer  morning. 

It  was  noon  before  we  got  our  baggage  ashore.    The  day 
became  extremely  hot,  which,  to  us  who  had  been  exposed 
to  the  sea  breezes  and  to  weather  singularly  chilly  and  raw, 
was  very  oppressive.    The  hotel  to  which  we  were  conducted, 
being  pleasantly  situated,  we  concluded  to  remain  a  day  or 
two  to  recruit.    "  I  had  hardly  got  rid  of  the  rocking  sensa- 
tion of  the  ship,"  remarked  one  similarly  circumstanced  to 
ourselves,  "  and  this  being  but  my  second  night  ashore,  I 
slept  as  a  landsman  does  when  he  once  more  gains  firm 
earth.    On  the  former  day,  when  walking,  my  very  toes 
grasped  the  ground,  as  if  each  was  a  feeler.    I  clung  to  it 
with  my  feet,  and  planted  them  on  land  like  the  sea-horse 
climbing  an  iceberg."    My  nights,  for  some  time  after  land- 
ing, were  of  a  restless  character ;  on  waking  up,  I  hardly 
ever  realized  myself  on  shore.    But  my  soul  was  continually 
happy  and  thankful.    Gratitude  to  my  good  and  gracious 
God  ever  animated  my  heart.    He  had  vouchsafed  to  his 
unworthy  servant,  in  answer  to  the  fervent  prayers  of  many 
thousands,  a  safe  and  pleasant  voyage,  and  speedy,  occupy- 
ing only  about  twelve  days  and  a  half  from  Liverpool.    Wo 
learned,  indeed,  from  the  public  papers,  that  a  few  degrees 
from  our  position  on  the  Atlantic,  a  vessel  had  encountoicd 
a  tremendous  gale,  on  the  night  of  the  80th  July,  which 
carried  away  her  mtunmast,  together  with  fore  and  mizzen 
topmast  and  suls,  but  it  had  no  comnussion  against  us. 
Shortly  after  we  landed,  another  terrific  gale  swept  tlw 
American  coast,  which  resulted  in  many  disasters,  with  loM 
of  life.    But  he  who  holds  the  winds  in  his  fist  and  the 
waters  in  the  hollow  of  his  hand,  held  the  elements  iu 


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restraint,  till  we  were  out  of  the  reach  of  their  fury.  "Doth 
Job  fear  God  for  nought  ?  hast  thou  not  made  a  hedge  about 
him,  and  about  all  that  he  hath  on  every  side?"  waa 
Satan's  complaint  concerning  Job.  God  can  plant  his  hedge 
aa  a  defence  around  his  servants  at  sea,  as  firmly  as  on  land, 
and  can  say  thereby  to  the  winds  and  waves,  "  Thus  far 
fihalt  thou  go,  and  no  farther."  Ocean  may  fling  his  moun- 
tain waves  against  it,  and  the  prince  of  the  power  of  the  air 
may  sometimes,  for  aught  we  know,  gather  the  winds  of 
heaven  in  one  collected  blast,  charged  with  the  strength  and 
wrath  of  hell,  involving  sea  and  sky,  but  in  vain !  the  hedge 
is  there,  —  the  blast  of  hell  is  paralyzed,  —  there  is  no 
breakwater  so  effectual  as  the  hedge  of  God's  right  hand 
planting. 

I  left  Boston  for  New  York,  where  I  was  joyfully  received 
by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Caughey  (cousins)  and  family.   From 
thence  I  proceeded  up  the  Hudson  River  to  Newburgb,  and 
took  my  sister  and  family  by  surprise.    We  had  a  joyful 
meeting.    From  Newburgh  I  set  out  for  Troy  and  Lansing- 
burgh,  the  highest  navigable  point  of  the  Hudson,  and 
preached  at  both  places;  thence  to  IVbitehall,  where  I 
formerly  received  orders  for  Europe.    I  landed  there  about 
five  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and,  without  making  myself 
known  to  any  one,  I  hastened  up  the  rocky  steeps  to  Provi- 
dence Path.    It  is  impossible  to  describe  my  feelings  when 
my  feet  paced  that  Path  once  more.    My  heart  was  filled 
with  love  and  joy,  my  eyes  with  tears,  and  my  mouth  with 
praises.    The  rocks  rang  with  shouts  of  joy.    This  was  my 
*^iriumpJuil."    No  human  eye  saw  me,  no  human  ear  heard 
my  burstmg  joy — my  acclamations!     Angels,  I  cannot 
but  think,  were  spectators,  and  shared  in  the  "tbiumph" 
which  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost,  had  granted  to  the 
weakest  and  meanest  of  the  servants  of  Heaven.    0 !  it 


of  their  fury.  "  Doth 
<  made  a  hedge  about 
every  side  ?  "  waa 
1  can  plant  his  hedge 
aa  fimaly  as  on  land, 
i  waves,  "Thus  far 
may  fling  his  moun- 
the  power  of  the  air 
;ather  the  winds  of 
rith  the  strength  and 
t  in  vain !  the  hedge 
fzed,  —  there  is  no 
•f  God's  right  hand 

lyaa  joyfully  received 
)  and  family.  From 
r  to  Newburgb,  and 

We  had  a  joyful 
'  Troy  and  Lansing- 
'  the  Hudson,  and 
'Vhitehall,  where  I 
ianded  there  about 
out  making  myself 
3ky  steeps  to  Provi- 
e  my  feelings  when 
»Iy  heart  was  filled 
and  my  mouth  with 
joy.  This  waa  my 
0  human  ear  heard 

Angels,  I  cannot 
n  the  "triumph" 
ad  granted  to  the 
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vas  a  time  never  to  be  forgotten.  I  had  not  expected  such 
a  great  blessing ;  my  soul  waa  taken  by  surprise,  and  waa 
caught  up  into  the  chariot  of  love.  No  Roman  hero  ever 
returned  to  Rome  with  such  a  glow  of  happiness  in  hia 
bosom ;  none  surely  ever  enjoyed  hia  triumphal  entry  into 
the  Roman  capital,  aa  I  did  mine,  anudst  the  rocks  of  Prov- 
idence Path.  When  words  were  exhausted,  and  I  stood  in 
adoring  wonder,  not  knowing  what  more  to  say,  that  fine 
hymn  rolled  in  upon  memory,  and  fired  my  soul  afresh.  It 
waa  quite  unpremeditated ;  that  is,  it  waa  not  thought  of 
in  view  of  the  occasion :  rather  I  would  believe,  it  waa 
prompted  by  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  my  willing  soul  seized 
it,  and  made  it  the  vehicle  to  convey  its  loftiest  emotions 
of  gratitude  and  joy  to  the  feet  of  Christ  my  Lord : 

"  This,  this  is  the  God  I  adore, 

My  faithful,  unchangeable  Friend ; 
Whose  love  is  as  great  as  bis  power, 

And  neither  Icnows  measure  nor  end. 
»Tis  Jesus,  the  First  and  the  Last, 

Whose  mercy  shall  guide  me  safe  home ; 
I'll  praise  him  for  all  that  is  past. 

And  trust  him  for  all  that 's  to  come." 

And  I  sang  aa  if  heaven  and  earth  should  hear.  The 
Lord  had  performed  hia  every  promise,  and  fulfilled  all  lus 
intimations  of  good  things  to  come,  which  he  had  made  me 
to  understand,  when  he  gave  me  my  European  commianon! 
and  he  had  brought  me  back  again  in  peace  and  safety, 
according  to  his  word ;  and,  had  I  held  my  peace,  the  rocks 
aroimd  Providence  Path  might  well  have  cried  out. 

I  then  walked  down  into  a  lonely  glen,  another  place 
sacred  to  memory ;  where,  some  weeks  after  my  call  to 
Europe,  and  when  the  following  words  were  resting  upon  my 
heart  with  a  sweet  influence,  "  I  must  preach  the  gospel 
under  other  skies;"  when  walking,  engaged  in  deep  coift- 


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munion  with  God,  I  observed,  on  looking  up,  how  rapidly 
the  clouds  were  eareprfng  along  the  sky.  I  fell  upon  my 
knees  and  tuug : 

"  Wh    points  the  clouds  tholr  coune, 
Whom  winds  and  seas  obey, 
He  shall  direct  my  wandering  feet, 
He  shall  point  out  my  way." 

And  now  that  I  had  returned,  and  the  Lord  had  made  all 
his  goodness  to  pass  before  me,  how  could  I  pass  that  glen 
and  not  turn  in  thither,  kneel  upon  the  same  green  turf,  and 
ung  the  same  verse  I  had  sung  there  eight  years  before  ? 
Then,  indeed,  it  was  the  language  of  confiding  faith  and 
unwavering  trust ;  now,  of  confidence  and  certainty  of  knowl- 
edge ;  but  both  dispositions  wore  equally  pleasing  to  God, 
although  the  latter  was  now  the  easier  and  happier  feeling 
of  the  two.  Here  again,  I  was  blessed,  in  substituting  "  he 
hcu  directed  my  wandering  feet,  he  has  pointed  out  the 
way."  Had  some  musical  critics  indeed  been  present,  they 
would  have  been  alarmed  for  the  fate  of  the  tune;  but  it 
was  for  the  ears  of  God  alone ;  and  was  accepted  on  account 
of  the  sweet  melody  made  in  the  heart  to  the  Lord.  Eph. 
V.  19.  On  the  same  day  I  went  on  board  the  steamer 
Whitehall,  and  sailed  for  Burlington,  Vt.,  a  pretty  town  on 
tlie  eastern  banks  of  Lake  Champlain,  where  I  received  a 
hearty  welcome  to  my  American  home,  by  my  dear  friends, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Haynes.  All  glory  and  praise  be 
unto  Gqd!  Amen.  Since  my  arrival  in  America,  I  have 
travelled  nearly  two  thousand  miles,  preached  in  several 
places,  and  have  seen  a  few  smners  converted  to  God. 

Last  week  I  visited  Poughkeepsie,  the  residence  of  Bishop 
Hedding.    He  was  not  at  home,  but  was  expected  daily. 
I  concluded  to  await  the  arrival  of  the  noon  steamer,  deter 
mining  to  remain,  should  the  Bishop  arrive  by  her ;  if  not. 


E. 

oking  up,  how  rapidly 
sky.     I  fell  upon  my 

I 
fe«t, 

;he  Lord  had  made  all 
luld  I  pass  that  glen 
3  same  green  turf,  and 
•e  eight  years  before  ? 
)f  confiding  faith  and 
ind  certainty  of  knowl- 
ually  pleasmg  to  God, 
it  and  happier  feeling 
d,  in  substituting  "  he 

?ia8  pointed  out  the 
ed  been  present,  they 
e  of  the  tune;  but  it 
IS  accepted  on  account 
rt  to  the  Lord.  Eph. 
)n  board  the  steamer 
Vt.,  a  pretty  town  on 
n,  where  I  received  a 
),  by  my  dear  friends, 

glory  and  praise  be 
I  in  America,  I  have 
,  preached  in  several 
nverted  to  God. 
be  residence  of  Bishop 

was  expected  daily. 
!  noon  steamer,  deter 
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to  proceed  by  the  same  boat  down  the  river.  Providentially 
the  Bishop  was  on  board.  He  received  me  most  cordially, 
and  I  returned  with  him  to  his  mansion. 

After  some  conversation  with  the  Bisjiop,  I  desired  to  be 
alone  with  God ;  excused  myself  for  an  hour,  and  walked 
out.  I  had  not  gone  far  before  God  met  mo,  and  filled  my 
heart  with  love.  My  soul  rejoiced  with  exceeding  joy ;  all 
within  mo  shouted  his  priuse.  Ah !  I  thought,  this  will  do. 
God  is  nunc,  and  I  am  his ;  he  is  on  my  side ;  no  evil  can 
happen.  All  is  well !  I  felt  nothing  in  my  heart  but  pure 
love  to  God  and  man.  Hallelujah !  That  night  I  preached 
m  the  church  contiguous  to  the  Bishop's  residence,  and  a 
number  of  persons  came  forward  to  be  prayed  for ;  but,  aa 
I  had  to  leave  before  the  close  of  the  service,  I  did  not 
learn  the  results. 

Yesterday  we  commenced  "  special  services  "  in  one  of 
our  churches  in  this  city.  The  congregation  was  rather 
small,  when  compared  with  those  I  had  seen  in  England ; 
but  there  was  some  feeUng ;  and  we  are  praying,  hoping 
and  believing,  for  a  general  outpouriaig  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
upon  the  population  of  this  great  city.  The  results  may  form 
the  material  for  another  commumcation.  My  health,  thank 
God,  is  very  good. 

As  to  my  future  movements  in  this  country,  I  can  say 
nothing  certam.  I  purpose  to  walk  closely  vdth  God ;  to 
watch  intently  the  providential  cloud,  and  follow  it.  My 
soul  has  been  weak  since  my  arrival,  and  I  have  not  had  my 
usual  liberty  in  preaching,  nor  success; — have  been  much 
buffetted  by  the  enemy,  and  weakened  by  various  causes, 
not  necessary  now  to  mention.  But  I  would  encourage 
myself  in  the  Lord,  that  these  circumstances  are  a  prelude 
to  a  succession  of  victories.  I  have  felt  a  loss  in  my  soul  in 
returning  into  the  hands  of  the  Lord  my  European  commia- 


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sion.  While  I  held  that,  all  the  enorgiea  of  soul  and  body 
wore  consecrated  to  it,  and  engaged  in  carrying  out  its  pwv 
port.  My  American  has  not  boon  so  clearly  defined,  nor  so 
satisfactorily  renewed.  I  feel  somewhat  like  an  officer  of  the 
army  on  furlough,  and  longing  once  more  to  lead  the  hostaof 
God  to  battle,  and  to  victory. 

"  To  act,  to  sufTer,  may  b«  nobly  great,  — 
But  Nature's  mightieat  oflbrt  is  to  wait." 

Since  hia  return,  this  beloved  brother  has  spent  his  summers 
mostly  in  literary  laboi-s  at  his  favorite  residence  in  Burling- 
ton, Vermont.  In  the  winter  months  he  has  labored  chiefly 
at  New  York,  Albany,  Providence,  and  Lowell.  We  find 
the  followmg  notice  m  the  London  Wesleyan  Tunes,  of  his 
labors  in  Providence : 

Our  Chesnut  street  charge  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island, 
is  enjoying  a  most  blessed  work  of  God,  under  the  labors  of 
the  Rev.  James  Caughey,  a  brother  well  known  on  your  side 
of  the  water.  Perhaps  a  short  account  of  this  work  will  be 
acceptable  to  your  readers.  Mr.  Caughey  commenced  his 
labors  here  the  first  Sabbath  in  December  last,  under 
somewhat  imfavorablo  circumstances.  The  society  was  quite 
low  in  spirituality ;  but  few  possessed  the  revival  spirit,  and  but 
few,  comparatively,  were  ready  to  act  for  the  salvation  of  souls. 
There  was,  however,  a  desire  on  the  part  of  some  to  witness 
a  revival,  while  a  few  were  earnestly  praying  for  it.  Mr. 
Caughey  was  most  cordially  received  among  them,  and  a 
good  number  at  once  rallied  around  him.  His  preaching 
Boon  took  effect.  Multitudes  began  to  feel  that  all  was  not 
rigjbt.  It  was  a  time  of  great  heart-searching.  Many  who 
had  been  members  of  the  church  for  years  became  alarmed 
for  their  safety.  They  came  to  the  altar  and  sought  a  clear 
witness  of  their  justification,  and  were  soon  rejoiobg  in  the 


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iB  of  soul  and  body 
jarrying  out  its  pm*- 
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;  like  an  officer  of  the 
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WAIT." 

OS  spent  his  summers 
esidence  in  Burling- 
9  has  labored  chiefly 
d  Lowell.  We  find 
ileyan  Times,  of  his 

ence,  Rhode  Island, 
under  the  labors  of 
known  on  your  side 
of  this  work  will  be 
;hey  commenced  his 
:ember  last,  under 
lie  society  was  quite 
evival  spirit,  and  but 
he  salvation  of  souls. 
b  of  some  to  witness 
(raying  for  it.  Mr. 
mong  them,  and  a 
n.  His  preaching 
iel  that  all  was  not 
rching.  Many  who 
irs  became  alarmed 
'  and  sought  a  clear 
>on  rejoicing  m  th« 


knowledge  of  the  forgivenosa  of  sins.  About  the  second 
week  of  the  meeting,  the  work  commenced  among  sinners. 
From  that  time  to  the  present,  the  work  has  been  going  on 
gloriously  among  them.  There  has  been  scarcely  a  night 
but  what  awakenings  and  conversions  have  been  witnessed. 
In  some  instances  the  largo  altar,  at  wLich  about  thirty-five 
can  kneel,  has  been  literally  crowded  with  those  seckmg 
mercy.  Probably  about  two  hundred  have  obt^ned  a  clear 
sense  of  justification  since  the  meetings  commenced,  and  more 
than  one  half  of  them  from  the  world.  Persons  of  almost  all 
ages  and  classes  have  been  subjects  of  the  revival,  though, 
as  is  usually  the  case,  the  larger  proportion  saved  are  among 
the  nuddle  aged  and  youth.  Some  of  the  most  hard-hearted 
and  wicked  have  found  mercy.  Some  who  wore  infidels,  Uni- 
versalists,  sceptics.  Sabbath-breakers,  and  profane,  are  found 
among  the  happy,  rejoicing  converts.  Several  heads  of  fam- 
ilies have  been  saved.  Husbands  and  wives,  parents  and 
children,  have  been  enabled  to  rejoice,  for  the  first  time,  in 
God's  pardoning  love.  Several  members  of  the  Bible  classes 
connected  with  our  Sabbath  School  have  been  made  unspeak- 
ably happy.  Members  of  the  Baptist  and  Congregational 
churches  have  been  blessed  at  our  altar.  A  large  number  of 
backsliders  have  been  recliumed.  The  work  of  entire  sanctifi- 
cation  has  progressed  with  that  of  conversion.  At  our  love- 
feast  on  the  7th  inst.,  at  which  about  one  hundred  spoke  of 
a  present  salvation,  a  large  number  bore  testimony  that  the 
"  blood  of  Jesus  Christ,  his  Son,"  had  cleansed  them  '*  from 
all  sin."  It  was  a  most  glorious  season !  We  have  received 
nearly  fifty  on  probation  during  the  meetings ;  several  have 
united  with  other  churches,  and  probably  as  many  more  will 
join  soon.  But  the  work  is  still  going  on  in  power.  Last 
evening  our  altar  was  nearly  full  of  persons,  most  of  whom 
were  seeking  mercy.    Mr.  Caughey  has  usually  preached 


444 


THE  VOTAGE  HOME. 


every  eveiuLg  in  the  week,  except  Monday  and  Saturday 
evenings;  and  for  about  six  weeks  he  has  preached  four 
times  during  the  week  in  the  afternoons.  The  after- 
noon meetings  have  been  signally  blessed  to  believers.  Ilia 
preaching  has  been  "with  power."  We  have  wondered  that 
any  one  could  withstand  its  convincing  and  searching  power. 
His  great  business  is  to  win  souls  to  Christ,  and  he  is  greatly 
honored  and  blessed  in  lus  work.  How  many  seals  he  will 
have  to  his  ministry !  Though  the  work  is  still  going  on,  he 
thinks  he  must  leave  us  soon,  to  seek  for  souls  in  other  places. 
I  need  not  tell  you  he  has  many  warm  friends  here,  who  seem 
quite  unwillmg  to  let  him  go.  They  seem  afraid  they  shall 
"see  his  face  no  more."  His  labors  are  in  great  demand. 
"  Come  and  help  us ! "  is  reaching  him  from  almost  every 
point. 

Glorious  results  have  followed  lus  labors  in  the  other  places 
named  above.  God  is  with  him.  The  people  love  Lim. 
What  hie  future  history  will  be,  God,  the  Omniscient,  can 
alone  cUscover. 


...'*.:- 


^^^HB** 


[onday  and  Saturday 
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moona.  The  after- 
Bd  to  beUevers.  Uis 
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and  searching  power, 
rist,  and  he  is  greatly 
r  many  seals  he  will 
•k  is  still  going  on,  he 
r  souls  in  other  places, 
friends  here,  who  seem 
seem  afraid  they  shall 
^e  in  great  demand, 
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APPENDIX. 


Thb  following  letters,  the  first  from  Mr.  Caughey,  and 
the  second  from  the  Rev.  James  Everett,  will  be  read  with 
mterest  by  the  fnends  of  revivals.  Mr.  E.'s  letter  is  very 
ably  written,  and  furnished  an  effectual  shield  against  the 
p<Msoned  darts  of  those  onenues  to  revival  movements  who 
attacked  Mr.  C.  in  England.  It  is  introduced  by  Mr. 
Caughey  in  the  following  words: 

The  following  letter  was  written  by  the  Ber.  James 
Everett  to  an  inquiring  friend.  It  was  inclosed  to  me  a 
few  days  since,  with  permission  to  make  what  use  of  it  I 
pleased.  Having  obtained  leave  of  Mr.  Everett  to  publish 
it  among  my  printed  Letters,  I  now  do  so  with  no  small 
degree  of  pleasure.  It  contains,  certaii  ly,  an  ingenious 
apology  for  the  matter  and  manner  of  my  preaching,  which, 
it  seems,  have  excited  a  great  deal  of  interest,  if  not  specu- 
lation, in  certain  qaarf«rs. 

Smce  my  ancivsJ  in  England,  I  have  endeavored  to  preadi 
the  gospel  of  God  my  Su.iour  in  sincerity  and  in  |r<i^)  and 
accordmg  to  the  ability  God  has  ^ven.  My  ttumer  of 
intutraiing  the  truths  of  the  gospel,  I  cannot  consider  alto- 
gether singular  or  peculiar  to  myself,  as  there  are  many 
«.  jninisters  who  avail  tltemselves  of  similar  advantages  for  Hbo 
88  445 


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"PM" 


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446 


APPENDIX. 


elucidation  of  truth.  It  is  not  hovrevei  imviotaWe  that  I 
may  sometimes  draw  more  largely  upon  nature  and  active 
fife  for  similes  than  many  of  my  brethren.  I  often  think 
there  is  a  necessity  for  this,  circumstanced  as  I  am  with  a 
crowd  of  simaers  around  me,  composed  of  various  grades  of 
character,  who  must  be  brought  first  to  understand,  and  then 
to  feel  the  truth ;  and  this,  not  for  a  few  meetings  only,  but 
throughout  a  series  of  services  ia  the  same  town,  and 
extending  through  a  succession  of  several  months. 

Bold  as  have  been  my  appeals  to  smners,  and  mysterious 
and  hazardous  as  have  been  some  of  my  delineationa  of 
character,  wid  frequently  as  the  bow  has  been  drawn  at  a 
venture,  I  know  my  heart  is  right  with  (Jod :  and  even 
those  who  have  heard,  with  amaze,  those  appeals  to  certain 
characters,  have  been  afterwards  compelled  to  acknowledge 
that  He  has  confirmed  the  word  by  signs  following. 

James  Caughby. 
Spark  Brook  House,  Binmngham,  Feb.  16, 1846. 

The  following  is  Mr.  Everett's  letter: 

York,  November  18, 1846. 
My  dbae  Fmbnd  H  '  '  * , 

The  objections  noticed  by  you,  to  the  Rev.  James 
Caughey,  are  only  such  as  have  taken  the  round  of  the 
social  circle,  and  absolutely  become  stale  by  repetition.  I 
have  heard  them  so  often  in  my  wanderings,  thw  they  have 
IfeK  become  like  the  dust  on  the  causeway;  along  which  I 
wa^^ilMi^are  passed  over  with  the  buoyant  st^p  of  a  youtii 
of  eighte^i*,  It  affords  me  pleasure  to  find  that  you  are 
breaking  away^rom  your  prejudices,  and  that  the  excellent 
persons  to  whom  you  refer  have  also  got  their  minds  disar 
bused  on  the  subjeot.   Most  of  the  objectionB  have  orijpnaied 


.rii. 


■■*• 


Qiifiobable  fhat  I 
lature  aud  active 
I.  I  often  think 
i  as  I  am  with  a 
various  grades  of 
erstand,  and  then 
meetings  only,  but 
same  town,  and 
months. 

3,  and  mysterious 
y  delineations  of 
been  drawn  at  a 
God:  and  even 
ippeals  to  certain 
d  to  acknowledge 
iUowing. 
MES  Cauohbt. 
;,  1846. 


IBEB  18, 1845. 

the  Bev.  James 
the  round  of  the 

by  repetition.  I 
ga,  the!;  they  have 
way  along  wluoh  I 
nt  st^p  of  a  yout^ 
find  tiiat  yon  are 
that  the  excellent 

their  nunds  disar ' 
)nB  have  orifpnaied 


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m.^ 


11 


•S 


APPENDIX. 


447 


either  in  ignorance  or  malice  —  proceeding,  in  the  first 
instance,  from  the  professors  of  religion,  and,  in  the  second, 
from  the  profane  ;  designed,  of  course,  in  the  one  case,  and 
undesigned  in  the  other:  and  the  two  uniting  in  their 
progress  through  society,  have  formed,  at  length,  a  kind  ot 
common  stock,  out  of  which,  persons  so  disposed,  are  helphig 
themselves — employing  at  the  same  time  such  latitude  of 
meaning,  and  such  vividness  of  coloring,  as  occasionally  to 
give  a  new  face  and  form  to  detached  portions ;  not  unfre- 
quently  uttering  them  with  such  an  air  of  the  oracular,  as 
to  impress  you  with  the  notion  that  the  oracle  has  spoken 
for  the  first  time,  and  that  the  objection  is  the  result  of 
personal  observation  and  special  investigation.  It  is  amusmg, 
in  one  view,  to  ind  the  "wise  says"  met  with  in  Ireland, 
strugglmg  to  ob.'ain  currency  in  England,  and  after  passing 
firom  lip  to  ear,  wmdmg  their  way  through  almost  every 
grade  of  society,  from  John  o'  Groat's  house  in  Scotiand  to 
Land's  End  in  Cornwall,  passing  off  very  often  in  the  shape 
of  "  new  discoveries."  In  listening  to  the  tales  of  oral 
reporters,  I  am  often  reminded  of  Mr.  Wesley's  remark  to 
the  celebrated  Beau  Nash,  who,  on  demanding  the  authority 
of  the  allegations  of  the  latter,  and  bemg  informed  that  he 
spake  from  "  common  report,"  very  significantly  and  pun- 
gently  retorted,  "I  dare  not  judge  of  you  by  common 
report."  This  was  admirable,  and  must  have  been  felt  like 
the  keen  edge  of  a  razor.  Common  report,  in  fact,  is  rarely 
to  be  trusted  with  either  sentiment,  expression,  or  character. 
Many  an  honest  man,  on  the  testimony  of  such  a  witnepi 
would  grace  the  gallows.  The  immaculate  Saviou;  ff^un 
would  not  escape  censure  from  the  very  creaturai  he  came 
to  save ;  nor  would  the  reporters  themselves,  if  iried  at  the 
same  bar,  escape  serious  blame  in  other  inatLers,  at  the 
moment  they  are  laying  the  "  flattering  unction "  to  tibeir 
wuls,  of  personal  innocence. 


1 


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r; 


448  APPBin>iz. 

"  0,  wad  some  power  the  gift!*  gle  M, 
To  wie  oureeli  as  others  see  us, 
It  waa  frae  monie  a  blunder  free  us  I " 

The  objection  to  Mr.  Caugtey's  -want  of  filial  affection, 
Bupported  as  was  supposed,  by  the  fact  of  his  leaving 
America  with  the  pr'-'essael  design  of  -mtrng  hia  mother  in 
Ireland,  and  of  be   g  months  in  that  island  without  ever 
once  going  near  her,  is  on  a  par  with  most  of  the  others ;  for 
the  truth  is,  that  his  mother  resided  in  America,  and  died 
there  before  he  quitted  the  shores  to  cross  the  Atlantic.   As 
to  the  members  ncglectii\g  tiieir  classes  during  his  ministrar 
tions,  matter  of  fact  is  against  the  charge.    On  the  testimony 
of  the  leaders,  not  only  do  the  new  members  meet  regularly, 
but  the  old  ones  are  improved  in  their  attention  to  the  duty. 
But  if  even  this  were  not  the  case,  I  cannot  conceive  why 
the  blame  should  rest  so  heavily  upon  Mr.  Caughey,  since 
hia  exhortations  are  so  pointed  and  frequent  on  the  subject 
— wphg  the  whole  society  to  be  punctual  in  attendance  on 
tlu3  excellent,  prudential  ordinance.    In  all  other  matters 
of  moment,  he  is,  aa  far  as  I  am  ablo  to  judge,  a  genuine 
Wesleyan,  supporting  his  portions  with  an  apparent  enthusi- 
astic appeal  to  tiie  writings  of  Mr.  Wesley.    But,  to  the 
points  in  question. 

Ton  aak— net  because  you  are  disposed  to  believe  it,  but 
because  you  have  heard  it— "  Is  not  Mr.  Caughey  open  to 
the  charge  of  vamty,  in  so  often  quoting  himself  —  appeal- 
to  his  experience  and  observations  ?  "  The  charge  may 
itionably  be  preferred,  but  the  proof  may  not  be  quite 
so  ead^»stablished.  Are  the  persons,  it  may  be  demanded, 
who  pref^ft,  entitied  to  respect,  or  remarkable  for  humility 
themselves?  or  i-ather,  are  they  not  seeking  for^an  apolog^r 
for  their  own  vacancy  and  inexperience  in  the  things  of  God 
— habitually  shrinking  from  tiie  scriptural  practice  of  declar- 


t0Mmmmmmitmimm 


rifik 


f  filial  affection, 
of  his  leaving 
,g  his  mother  in 
ad  mthout  ever 
f  the  others ;  for 
ouerica,  and  died 
lie  Atlantic.  As 
ng  his  nmustrar 
On  the  testimony 
I  meet  regularly, 
.tion  to  the  duty, 
ot  conceive  why 
.  Caughey,  since 
at  on  the  subject 
in  attendance  on 
ill  other  matters 
udge,  a  genuine 
Eipparent  enthusi- 
ey.    But,  to  the 

to  believe  it,  but 
Caughey  open  to 
liimself —  appeal- 
The  charge  may 
may  not  be  quite 
lay  be  demanded, 
kable  for  humility 
ig  for  an  apolo^ 
the  things  of  God* 
practice  of  declaim 


APPENDIX. 


449 


ing  the  work  of  the  Spirit  to  others?  In  the  Epistles  of  the 
Apostles,  and  especially  those  of  St.  Paul,  we  do  not  only 
find  allusions,  but  lengthened  accounts  of  personal  experi- 
ence, faith,  and  practice.  These,  of  course,  on  the  same 
principle,  are  subject  to  the  same  charge.  Nor  is  the 
venerable  Wesley  less  so,  in  giving  Ins  experience  in  print 
to  l^e  world,  in  his  published  Journals,  during  his  life.  Such 
an  objection,  if  fairly  followed  out,  will  lead  to  the  subversion, 
not  only  of  love-feasts,  but  class  and  band-meetings.  The 
royal  Psalmist  was  not  ashamed  of  ^ving  a  general  invi- 
tation to  such  as  were  disposed  to  accept  it,  to  come  and 
listen  to  him,  while  declaring  what  God  had  done  for  his 
soul:  nor  are  the  preachers  backward  in  employing  his 
example  as  an  argument,  in  ur^g  the  members  of  society 
to  speak,  when  timidity,  modesty,  or  other  conflicting  feel- 
iugs  produce  a  temporary  pause  on  the  subject  of  personal 
experience  in  a  large  assembly.  What !  are  we  to  urge 
others  to  speak,  and  to  remain  silent  ourselves  ?  Arc  we  to 
have  ordinances  established  among  us  for  the  express  purpose 
of  coming  at  each  other's  experience,  and  of  aiding  that 
experience  when  we  have  arrived  at  the  desired  knowledge, 
and  to  remain  mute  as  Christian  teachers?  Are  we  to  hear 
the  experience  of  others,  and  are  they  not  to  be  privileged 
with  ours  ?  Is  the  shepherd  to  know  where  and  how  the 
flock  are  feeding,  and  are  they  to  remain  ignorant  of  the 
fact  where  and  how  he  himself  is  living  ?  His  own  experi- 
ence, if  good,  can  do  them  no  harm ;  if  bad,  or  meagre, 
there  is  a  reason  for  its  concealment.  If  experience  is-eltfy 
to  be  shown  in  practice,  there  is  at  once  an  ^i0-  of  the 
fellowship  of  sainte.  I  should  be  glad  to  knowjoo,  what,  in 
such  case,  boooTr<3  of  the  pulpit  and  j^  pretis.  The 
Wesleyans  asd'iwie  it  as  a  fact,  that  their  ministerj  are  not 
of  that  class  of  public  teachers  who  deal  in  unfelt  truths. 
38» 


:l 


i4iitfi*^fii»hi<m>*^ 


450 


APPENDIX. 


fhia  bemg  the  case,  why  should  a  man,  who  has  a  right  to 
the  advantage  of  that  opinion  on  the  part  of  the  people,  be 
Bubject  to  the  charge  of  vanity  on  letting  it  out  to  them 
that  such  and  such  statements  are  the  result  of  his  own 
experience  and  observation  ?  Is  a  man  to  make  use  of  his 
intellect,  his  eyes,  and  his  ears,  and  to  ^ve  the  result  of  his 
observations  to  the  world  on  all  that  comes  under  his  notice, 
save  his  own  experience  as  a  Christian  minister  ?  Is  all  to 
be  kept  sacredly  boxed  up  m  his  soul  till  he  dies  —  till  his 
biographer,  should  he  have  one,  is  pleased  to  let  out  the 
secret  to  the  pubUc  ?  Are  politicians,  philosophers,  agricul- 
turists, chemists,  in  short,  all  classes  of  experimentalists, 
to  publish  the  result  of  their  experience  and  operations 
to  {he  wide  world,  and  is  a  Chiistian  minister  not  to  be 
allowed  to  tell  his  still  more  important  tale  to,  say  a  thou- 
sand professing  Christians,  enclosed  within  the  walls  of  Crod'a 
house,  where  his  theme  is  not  only  suited  to  the  place,  but 
where  he  meets  with  the  hearty  response  of  the  one  half  of 
his  auditory,  and  where  the  other  half  ought  to  be  ashamed 
of  themselves,  either  because  of  their  stunted  growth  in  the 
divine  lite  or  want  of  reUsh  for  divine  things  ?  I  need  not 
tell  you,  that  a  minister  has  to  think,  hear,  read,  see,  and 
feel  for  others  tiian  himself;  and  is  not  unfrequently  obliged, 
like  the  Apostle  7aul,  to  become  "  a  fool,"  even  in  matters 
of  experience,  and  at  the  hazard  of  being  charged  with  the 
pride  of  boasting,  for  the  sake  of  others,  that  the  grace 
of  €k>d  may  be  magnified  in  him.  As  it  regards  myself,  I 
confess  that  my  confidence  is  generally  strengthened,  when, 
in  reading  a  work,  or  listening  to  a  nan-itive,  I  find  the 
author  or  the  speaker  able  to  add,  "I  heard — I  saw — 
I  felt  it."  lia  guch  case,  I  find  myself  at  the  spring-head ; 
and  if  there  is  judgment  combined  with  sincerity  and  good 
general  character  for  truthfulness,  I  consider  myself  aa 


ft 


•ilk 


J 


APPENDIX. 


151 


bo  has  a  right  to 
of  the  people,  be 
;  it  out  to  them 
esult  of  his  own 
make  use  of  his 
the  result  of  his 
under  his  notice, 
ster?  Is  all  to 
le  (Ues  —  till  his 
:  to  let  out  the 
sophers,  agricul- 
experimentalista, 

and  operations 
inister  not  to  be 

to,  say  a  thou- 
be  walls  of  (rod's 
o  the  place,  but 
the  one  half  of 
t  to  be  ashamed 
ed  growth  in  the 
;s?  I  need  not 
r,  read,  see,  and 
equently  obliged, 
even  in  matters 
iharged  with  the 

tiiat  the  grace 
egards  myself,  I 
ngthened,  when, 
-itive,  I  find  the 
jard — I  saw — 
the  spring-head ; 
icerity  and  good 
isidor  myself  as 


indebted  to  the  individual  for  thus  stooping  to  confirm  my 
faith  in  this  particular  way.  I  say  stooping,  for  all  the 
pride  of  human  nature  will  rise  up  in  rebellion  against  it. 
Every  Christian  minister  is  bound  to  go  before  hia  flock,  not 
only  in  doctrine  and  practice,  but  in  experience ;  and  those 
are  the  most  apt  to  conceal  their  religion,  who  have  the  least 
to  make  known.  It  would  bo  well  if,  on  this  subject,  ounis- 
ters  were  a  little  more  communicative.  It  would  preserve 
them  from  many  improprieties,  as  the  people  would  then 
have  a  check  upon  them  in  social  life,  by  being  able,  as  in 
the  case  of  "  The  Pulpit  and  the  Reading  Desk,"  to  confront 
the  preacher  with  the  man.  Do  not  mistake  me.  I  am  not 
contending  for  a  constant  exhibition  of  personal  experience, 
and  of  such  incidents  and  providences  as  have  come  under 
our  own  notice,  or  with  which  we  may  have  been  either 
immediately  or  remotely  connected ;  but  there  is  a  differ- 
ence between  a  little,  and  none  at  all ;  between  a  completely 
sealed  fountain,  and  a  few  drops ;  and  a  man  has  no  more 
occasion  to  be  ashamed  of  his  Clu'islian  experience,  than  he 
has  to  be  ashamed  of  its  divine  author — Jesus  Christ.  It 
is  doubtful  whether,  in  such  case,  we  are  not  shrinkm^  irom 
the  cross,  and  whether  such  backwardness  ia  not  tract;able 
to  the  pride  and  carnality  of  the  human  heart. 

The  other  question  —  "  Does  not  Mr.  Caughey  pretend  to 
something  like  immediate  inspiration,  in  reference  to  ohar- 
acter?"  &c. — receives  an  answer  in  his  mode  of  address, 
and  generally  lies  in  the  simple,  but  effective  use  of  a  single 
word — the  pronoun;  employing  the  singular  instead  of  the 
plural,  like  the  old  prophet,  "Thou — thou — thou -art  the 
man ! "  Take  a  case  —  and  ona  will  illustrate  many  Tiore  — 
in  a  congregation  of  mixed  characters,  sinners  of  every 
description,  comprising  from  twelve  hundred  to  two  thousand 
persons;  the  preacher  asserts,  "There  is  a  man  in  the 


452 


APPENDIX. 


gallery  who  lias  grieved  the  Spirit  of  God — he  knows  it 
—  ho  feola  it;  to  him,  I  am  speaking,"  &c.,  &c.    Would 
he  be  wide  of  the  mark  ?    Is  there  one  who  has  not  ?    It 
does  not  require  the  vision  of  a  seer,  to  authorize  a  man  to 
make  this  statement,  or  to  foretell  how  it  will  be  taken  by 
some  and  mterpreted  by  others.    A  person  takes  it  home 
to  himself,  and  the  preacher  is  published  as  a  discemer  of 
spirits !    Or,  we  may  advert  to  persons  in  debt,  and  unwil- 
ling to  pay;  availing  themselves  of  various  discreditable 
shifts  and  excuses  to  put  off  the  day  of  reckoning.    How 
many  are  there  of  these  in  a  large  assembly,  owing  from 
one  to  ten,  twenty,  thirty,  forty,  fifty  pounds,  and  even 
more,  with  almost  every  figure  between  ?    Let  the  minister 
state,  "There  is  a  man  in  this  congregation  indebted  to 
another,  (say  a  certain  sum;)  he  might  have  paid  him  but 
has  not:  till  that  specific  sum  is  paid,  the  man  has  no  right 
to  expect  mercy  at  the  hand  of  God,"  &c.     Would  a 
personal  appeal  be  out  of  place  here  ?    Could  a  mmister  fire 
a  shot  of  this  kind  among  so  many  crows,  without  hitting 
and  woimding  some  ?     Any  man  acquainted  with  human 
nature,  in  all  its  dishonesty  and  selfishness,  and  with  the 
state  of  society,  in  its  wants,  its  commerce,  its  borrowing 
and  lending,  its  trusting,  swindling,  over-reaching,  its  day- 
books and  legers,  may  select  a  hundred  cases,  in  which 
hundreds  are  implicated,  and  feel  in  silence  such  personal 
and  pointed  appeals ;  but  there  is  only  one,  perhaps,  who 
yields  to  the  blow,  and  ha«  simplicity  enough  to  publish  the 
efiect  of  the  appeal  to  the  world,  and  honesty  enough  to  pay 
lus  debts,  at  the  bidding  of   the  Spirit  op  God  in  the 
mmistry  of  the  word.     On  this  principle,  every  faithful 
minister  is  a  seer ;  and  it  is  not  uncommon  for  persons  to 
charge  others  with  having  informed  the  preacher  of  some 
facts  relative  to  their  personal  history.    The  thoughts  of 


"rip^' 


APPENDIX. 


453 


) — he  knows  it 
c,  &c.    Would 
10  has  not?    It 
borize  a  man  to 
rill  be  taken  by 
1  takes  it  home 
13  a  discerner  of 
iebt,  and  unwil- 
lus  discreditable 
Bckoning.    How 
bly,  owing  from 
lunds,  and  even 
Let  the  mimster 
;ion  indebted  to 
Eive  paid  him  but 
lan  has  no  right 
&c.     Would  a 
Id  a  minister  fire 
,  without  hitting 
ted  with  human 
»,  and  with  the 
e,  its  borrowing 
Baching,  its  day- 
cases,  in  which 
ie  such  personal 
ne,  perhaps,  who 
;h  to  publish  the 
ity  enough  to  pay 
OF  God  in  the 
8,  every  faithful 
in  for  persons  to 
preacher  of  bome 
The  thoughts  of 


tneir  hearts  are  made  manifest  to  themselves  by  the  ministry, 
in  the  first  instance,  and  then  by  themselves  to  others,  in 

the  next. 

As  to  the  question, "  Is  it  correct  that  the  converts  in 
these  revivals  disappear  with  the  instrument  of  them?" 

1.  I  should  like  an  answer  to  some  other  questions,  before 
that  is  attended  to ;  and  the  querist  will  allow  me  to  ask,  in 
return.  Is  it  a  fact,  that  all  who  profess  to  receive  good 
relinquish  their  hold  of  religion,  and  go  back  into  the  worid? 

2.  Is  it  to  be  admitted  that,  if  they  are  not  found  in  one 
society,  they  are  not,  therefore,  to  be  found  in  another ;  if 
not  in  one  circuit  not,  therefore  in  another ;  if  not  among 
the  Weslcyans,  not  in  other  reUgious  communities  ?     Who 
among  the  objectors  will  take  tlie  credit  of  possessing  the 
knowledge  necessary,  both  for  extent  and  accuracy,  to 
answer  a  question  of  this  nature  ?    But,  3.  Are  not  scores 
of  persons  to  be  found,  in  different  places,  who  in  these 
revivals  were  brought  under  serious  impressions,  and  who, 
to  the  present  moment,  have  msuntained  as  creditable  a 
Christian  profession  as  those  who  can  boast  of  a  less  turbu- 
lent, though  perhaps   a  much  slower  process  ?    4.  If  ten 
are  saved  to  God  and  society  out  of  every  hundred,  is  not  a 
revival  to  be  hailed  with  joy  ?    There  are  ministers  —  I  do 
not  say  Wesleyans — who  pass  away  from  among  men  with 
out  the  knowledge  of  a  single  reformation ;  onuttmg  every 
thing  in  the  shape  of  conversion  having  ever  been  effected 
by  their  mmistry— a  ministry,  perhaps,  of  thirty  or  forty 
years'  continuance !    5.  Should  it,  however,  even  be  the  fact 
— which  is  not  admitted — that  the  converts  in  these  revivals 
do  not  stand,  — what  then?     Are  we,  in  consequence  of 
this,  to  ass\ime  it  as  a  further  fact,  that  the  work  was  not 
genuine  ?     Would  not  such  assumption  operate  aj^ainst  any 
work  being  real  in  the  backslider,  in  any  other  ^ven  case, 
from  a  David  to  a  Peter,  with  every  grade  between,  and 


454 


APPBNDtX. 


also  lead  to  tho  doctrine  of  "Once  in  grace,  always  in 
grace?"    For  this,  no  thorough  Weslejan  will  contend. 
"A  desire  to  flee  from  the  wrath  to  come,"  is  as  genuine  a 
•worl  jf  God,  in  its  degree,  and  for  the  time  being,  (and,  as 
such,  is  recognized,  by  being  made  the  condition  of  admis- 
Bicn  to  church  membership,)  as  true  repentance,  and  will 
lead  to  the  latter,  to  Christ,  and  to  leaven,  if  not  checked. 
Revivals,  generally  speaking,  are  beginnmgs ;  and  without 
them,  there  can  be  no  glorious  finish.     We  must  take  the 
beginning  on  our  way  to  the  end.    The  best  of  seed  may  be 
sown,  and  yet  fail,  when  no  fault  is  to  be  found  with  either 
the  grain,  or  the  husbandman  that  has  scattered  it ;  the  soil, 
the  season,  and  a  hundred  other  things  have  to  be  taken 
into  the  account.    I  go  further,  and  maintain  that  no  man 
is  accountable,  unless  it  be  through  neglect,  or  the  propaga- 
tion of  error,  for  the  stability  and  standing  of  his  converts ; 
no  more  than  the  husbandman,  just  referred  to,  after  having 
sown  good  seed  in  his  field,  and  seen  it  spring  up,  is  respon- 
sible for  « the  full  corn  in  the  ear,"  —  is  bound,  in  short,  to 
protect  it  from  mildew,  the  birds  of  the  air,  &c.,  and  to 
insure  a  succession  of  fruitful  seasons^   no  more  than  a 
parent  is  responsible  for  the  good  behavior  of  his  child, 
during  his  absence,  or  can  be  expected  to  secure  steadfast- 
ness in  every  case   through  a  prolonged  life.     And  this 
brings  me  to  another  point.    If  the  minister,  who  is  the 
honored  instrument  of  a  revival  of  the  work  of  God,  mani- 
fests nothing  but  ardent  zeal,  preaches  the  truth  as  it  is  in 
Jesus,  and  bums  with  pure  love  to  God  and  man — whiJe  in 
the  midst  of  it  is  obliged  to  remove  to  another  place,  where 
tike  same  spirit  is  evinced,  the  same  plans  are  adopted,  the 
same  unwearied  diligence  is  observed,  and  the  same  signs 
follow,— if  this,  I  say,  were  to  be  tho  case,  it  is  but 
reasonable  to  believe,  and  charitable  to  hope,  that  had  he 
continaed)  being  the  same  m  spirit  and  practice,  that  tho 


grace,  always  in 
an  -KiH  contend. 
"  is  aa  genuine  a 
le  being,  (and,  as 
mdition  of  admis- 
entance,  and  will 
,  if  not  checked. 
igs;  and  withoat 
''e  must  take  the 
t  of  seed  may  be 
found  with  either 
«red  it;  the  soil, 
lave  to  be  taken 
^n  that  no  man 
,  or  the  propaga- 

of  his  converts ; 
[  to,  after  having 
ng  up,  is  respon- 
)und,  in  short,  to 

air,  &c.,  and  to 
Qo  more  than  a 
ior  of  his  child, 
secure  steadfast- 
life.  And  this 
ster,  who  is  the 
•k  of  God,  mani- 

truth  as  it  is  in 
.  man — whL^e  in 
her  place,  where 
are  adopted,  the 

the  same  signs 

case,  it  is  but 
ope,  that  had  he 
)racticc,  that  the 


'jr>r" 


APPENDIX. 


455 


Work  also  would  have  continued  —  now  converts  being  added, 
and  those  of  an  earlier  date  not  only  preserved  but  strength- 
ened. You  will  perceive  by  this  remark,  if  not  where  I  am, 
at  least  where  I  wish  to  be.  When  a  child  sickens,  or 
becomes  wayward,  the  fault,  perhaps,  is  as  much  in  the 
nurse  and  the  tutor,  as  in  the  parent.  Apply  this,  not  only 
to  Mr.  Caughey  —  for  why  should  he  stand  alone  as  a  mark 
to  be  shot  at? — but  to  zealous  itinerant  ministers  generally 
When  a  man  has  been  honored  of  God  in  the  conversion  of 
others,  he  is  compelled,  agreeably  to  the  economy  of  Meth- 
odism, to  leave  his  converts  in  the  hands  of  others :  but 
unless  there  is  the  same  anxious  care  in  nursing,  as  in  bring- 
ing them  at  first  to  God ;  to  keep,  as  to  lay  hold,  no  wonder 
that  there  should  be  a  falling  away.  Now,  without  calling 
in  question  either  the  piety  or  the  good  sense  of  the  breth- 
ren, it  is  well  known  that,  in  the  present  day,  as  in  apostolic 
times,  "  there  are  diversities  of  gifts ; "  yes,  and  of  views 
and  feelings  too,  or  why  so  many  clashing  opinions  on  the 
subject  of  these  revivals  ?  This  being  admitted,  suppose  a 
preacher  to  enter  into  the  labors  of  one  of  our  revivalists, 
'fho,  constitutionally,  is  disinclined  to  every  thing  like  a^ta- 
tion,  noise,  fermentation,  and  what  not,  and  who,  from  a 
certfun  courae  of  training,  some  peculiar  views,  associations, 
or  prepossessions,  has  been  led  to  express  his  disaffection,  is 
it  at  all  likely  that  the  new  converts  will  profit  under  the 
ministry  of  such  a  man,  or  even  respect  him,  to  the  extent 
in  which  they  would  have  improved  under  another  of  the 
same  spirit  and  views  with  the  man  under  whose  miniatiy  ^, 
they  were  roused  to  a  sense  of  their  danger?  I  have  no 
wish  here  to  encourage  fastidiousness :  but  we  know  enough 
of  human  nature  to  assure  us  of  its  likes  and  dislikes,  and 
somewhat  too  much  of  the  Wesleyan  body  not  to  feel  pained 
at  the  difference  which  even  older  members  make  between 
preachers  on  the  same  circuit,  appointed  by  the  Coi&ftttDcey 


I  ''Ste. « 1 


456 


APPBirDIZ. 


4 


one  for  Paul  and  another  for  Apollos.    If  the  old  are  often 
fickle  to  a  fault,  can  wo  expect  the  young  to  "walk  without 
halting?    Special  meetings,  special  nursing,  special  triuning, 
will  he  found  as  necessary  after,  as  during  a  revival.    A 
revival  must  be  carried  on,  as  well  as  begun.    We  have  not 
done  with  it  when  the  tumult  subsides,  when  the  effervescence 
goes  off,  when  the  groans  of  penitents  die  on  the  ear.    Let 
those  then,  in  the  first  place,  cease  to  rwl  against  revivals, 
who  make  no  extra  effort  to  preserve  the  field  that  has  been 
won.    The  excellent  men  on  the  York  circuit,  Messrs.  Wal- 
ton, Cheetham,  Cumook,  and  Radcliffe,  are  anxiously  labor- 
ing, by  extra  efforts,  to  preserve  to  the  church,  in  the  revival 
here,  the  souls  that  have  been  brought  out  of  the  world. . 
Secondly,  let  no  Wesleyan  be  forward  to  speak  against,  what 
some  persons  are  pleased  to  designate,  "noisy  meetings,"  till 
he  is  satisBed  that  Mr.  Wesley  was  in  the  wrong  in  first  sanc- 
tioning them  — the  meetings  themselves  having  been  the 
starting  point  of  experimental  religion  in  Methodism.    But  I 
forbear  here,  as  you  are  acquainted  with  my  views  of  such 
meetings,  in  the  small  tract  on  the  "  Order  of  God,"  ap- 
pended to  the  « Village  Blacksmith."    Thirdly,  least  of  aU 

and  an  appeal  is  here  made  to  ministers  belon^g  to  every 

religious  community —  ought  that  man  to  impugn  the  labors 
of  others  m  revivals,  who  rarely,  if  ever,  in  his  ordinary  work, 
either  sees  or  hears  tell  of  any  fruit  of  his  own  ministry? 
Non-useftdnesB  will  do  very  well  to  pair  with  the  supposed 
blasted  fruit  of  others. 

Excuse  haste.  I  have  no  time  to  enter  upon  other  pomta 
noticed  by  you,  though  persuaded  that  they  are  all  capable 
of  satisfactory  solutions.  The  writer  to  whom  you  refer  is 
remarkable  for  perspicuity,  reseai-ch,  force,  and  occasional 
fpM ;  but  h«  is  not  sufficientiy  evangelical  in  his  sentiments. 
^-  Ever  yours  most  truly, 
:^t^'  Jambs  Evbrbtt. 


l)MMHIlli>i»ii»ill'»fteii 


'm 


If  the  old  are  often 
Qg  to  walk  without 
,ng,  special  tnuiting, 
oring  a  revival.  A 
sgun.  We  have  not 
ten  the  efforvescenoe 
lie  on  the  ear.  Let 
'ail  agaiDSt  revivals, 
i  field  that  has  been 
lircuit,  Messrs.  Wal- 

are  anxiously  labor- 
ihurch,  in  the  revival 
it  out  of  the  world. 
)  speak  against,  what 
'  noisy  meetings,"  till 
e  wrong  in  first  sanc- 
es  having  been  the 
1  Methodism.  But  I 
ith  my  views  of  such 
)bdbr  of  God,"  ap- 

Thirdly,  least  of  all 
jre  belon^g  to  every 

to  impugn  the  labors 
,  in  his  ordinary  work, 
af  his  own  ministry  ? 
air  with  the  supposed 

iter  upon  other  points 
t  they  are  all  capable 
to  whom  you  refer  is 
force,  and  occasional 
lical  in  his  sentiments, 
ruly, 

jAlfBS  EVEBETE. 


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